Re: Driving time from Dublin to Belfast Aug 5, 2007, 8:33 AM BrantCouple, this is a nice trip and as you drive along you will have the mountains of the Cooley peninsula on your right and hills on your left.
Automation or automatic control, is the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching on tele phone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications with minimal or reduced human intervention.
The term automation, inspired by the earlier word automatic (coming from automaton), was not widely used before 1947, when General Motors established the automation department. It was during this time that industry was rapidly adopting feedback controllers, which were introduced in the 1930s.