Word: servo
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...tape and the Navy's Project Tinkertoy (TIME, Sept. 28) are some of the keys to the factory of the future. But it will be a long time before most U.S. industries are generally automatic, their operations run by a whole new group of controls such as "servo-mechanisms," which not only correct their own errors but perform a series of logical operations. Machines run by such controls are often fantastically expensive to produce; M.I.T. has developed a servo-controlled milling machine, so flexible that it can make 150 different products, but it costs $400,000. In many industries...