Historic Control Textbooks

This collection is to present the earliest textbooks that grew out of the original development of automatic control, and the many others that followed very soon, in various countries, and in various languages. We set out to collect information on one to four books from each country, including a brief description of the background, history and contents of the book, a picture of the front page, and copies of one to a few "typical" pages. With the latter, we intended to show pages that contain an equation or figure, easily recognizable to anyone familiar with control, embedded in the text written in one of the many languages and, in some cases, in various scripts. The present collection contains 62 entries from 21 countries.

Early Control Textbooks in Brasil

Early Control Textbooks in the People's Republic of China

Early Control Textbooks in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia)

Early Control Textbooks in Denmark

Early Control Textbooks in Finland

Early Control Textbooks in France

Early Control Textbooks in Germany

Early Control Textbooks in Hungary

Early Control Textbooks in Italy

Early Control Textbooks in Japan

Early Control Textbooks in Korea

Early control Textbooks in the Netherlands

Early Control Textbooks in Norway

Early Control Textbooks in Poland

Early Control Textbooks in Russia (Soviet Union)

Early Control Textbooks in Spain

Early Control Textbooks in Sweden

Early Control Textbooks in Switzerland

Early Control Textbooks in Turkey

Early Control Textbooks in the United Kingdom

Early Control Textbooks in the United States of America