The First Dozen Control Books in English

As reported by Stuart Bennett [7].

1.
  Murray F. Gardner and John L. Barnes. Transients in Linear Systems. Wiley, New York, 1942.

2.
  Ed S. Smith. Automatic Control Engineering. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1942.

3.
  Roosevelt Griffiths. Thermostats and Temperature Regulating Instruments. 1943.

4.
  Albert C. Hall. The Analysis and Synthesis of Linear Servomechanisms. Technology Press, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1943.

5.
  Hendrik W. Bode. Network Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design. Van Nostrand, New York, 1945.

6.
  Donald P. Eckman. The Principles of Industrial Process Control. 1945.

7.
  LeRoy A. MacColl. Fundamental Theory of Servomechanisms. Van Nostrand, New York, 1945.

8.
  W. R. Ahrendt and J.F. Taplin. Automatic Regulation. 1946.

9.
  Hubert M. James, Nathaniel B. Nichols, and Ralph S. Phillips. Theory of Servomechanisms, volume 25 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947.

10.
  Henri Lauer, Robert Lessick, and Leslie E. Matson. Servomechanism Fundamentals. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947.

11.
  Gordon S. Brown and Donald P. Campbell. Principles of Servomechanisms. Wiley, New York, 1948.

12.
  Norbert Wiener. Cybernetics; or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Wiley, New York, 1948.



Kent H Lundberg
2002-11-14