dipity

Created by purplemist on 08/02/2009

Last updated: 08/02/09 at 22:37

• Classification
  1967

  John Rose classified automation into 4 catergories: control, scientific, information and others. This classification drew a clear line between automation and mechanism.

• Use of the term "automation"
  1949

  The term "automation" is first used when Ford Motor Company started up their factories specially for automation.

• Automation
  1947

  The term "automation" was coined by Ford Motor Company.
  http://www.ford.com/

• Creation of first computers
  1940

  The first few computers are being created. Terms and theories appeared soon to explain the functions of these devices and their systems.

• "Machines replaces human activities"
  1915

  Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, a Spanish inventor, advocated automation and presented the argument that machines are capable to do what man can do.