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Autonetics is a company name, a division of Rockwell. I don't think it means anything other than sounding high-tech, like cybernetics.
by kens 6y ago
Autonetics is a company name, a division of Rockwell. I don't think it means anything other than sounding high-tech, like cybernetics.
- contingencies 6y agoFigured as much. Seems they mostly worked on military flight control, Boeing acquired them and they a have a mini history here: http://bos.ocgov.com/legacy3/newsletters/pdf/Honoring_the_Legacy_of_Autonetics.pdf http://bos.ocgov.com/legacy3/newsletters/pdf/Honoring_the_Le... Update: Found an oral history reference. The name was coined under the Eisenhower administration, along with it's etymological sibling Rocketdyne. Bad ass. https://airandspace.si.edu/research/projects/oral-histories/TRANSCPT/ATWOOD2.HTM https://airandspace.si.edu/research/projects/oral-histories/... Their inventions apparently include fundamentals to the field such as automated inertial navigation for flight control (1950), automated celestial navigation, and redundant flight control computers. They initially used memory based on the deferred transit of audio through crystal.