File:W. Ross Ashby's 1948 Homeostat.jpg
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English: The Homeostat consisted of four interconnected Royal Air Force bomb control units with inputs, feedback, and magnetically driven, water-filled potentiometers. It illustrated his law of requisite variety — automatically adapting its configuration to stabilize the effects of any disturbances introduced into the system. |
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| Author | Mick Ashby, on behalf of the Estate of W. Ross Ashby |
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