Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: A History of Control Systems -- 2 Naval Control Systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company -- 3 Taming the Beasts of the Machine Age: The Sperry Company -- 4 Opening Black's Box: Bell Labs and the Transmission of Signals -- 5 Artificial Representation of Power Systems: Analog Computing at MIT -- 6 Dress Rehearsal for War: The Four Horsemen and Palomar -- 7 Organizing for War: The Fire Control Divisions of the NDRC -- 8 The Servomechanisms Laboratory and Fire Control for the Masses -- 9 Analog's Finest Hour -- 10 Radar and System Integration at the Radiation Laboratory -- 11 Cybernetics and Ideas of the Digital -- 12 Conclusion: Feedback and Information in 1945 -- APPENDIX A: Algorithm of the Ford Rangekeeper Mark 1 -- APPENDIX B: NDRC Section D-2 and Division 7 Contracts for Fire Control -- APPENDIX C: Algorithm of Bell Labs' T-10 Director -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.