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An Automatic Chemical Plant

The art of feedback control has attained its highest development in the modern petroleum refinery. Such refineries are not quite fully automatic, but in them we see the shape of plants to come

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 187 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “An Automatic Chemical Plant” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 187 No. 3 (), p. 82
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0952-82