These MIT Science Reports are all fascinating, and the substance of this is great! I must add, however, that Prof. Woodbury's delivery could be heralded as another great technological breakthrough -- the development of "Electronic Sominex."
Numerical Control - in the aircraft industry. The birth of CNC. I guess a good idea catches on. I think they wanted something to super cede numerical control with more complicated logic... however I think the simpler CNC and the money from the aircraft industry machining was too difficult to override. They wanted an English language syntax similar to FORTRAN rather than G code which is closer and more dependent on the hardware. Similar to the difference between Java and C.
We called this "ticker tape" it was used to load the octal "boot strap" to a PDP computer, the boot strap program would allow the machine to access the hard disk drive. Thanks for posting.
Very intersting insight in the history of CNC. I know there was "NC" (numerically controlled) lathes before, but this must be where the "Computer" in CNC must have its beginnings. Doug Ross is an important name here.
Well, basically APT and CNC are synonymous in this context. A bit later the meaning of CNC evolved to indicate the whole manufacturing system, and APT became mostly the computer language, which controlled the CNC machines. APT is still used today in some legacy environments, but most of the systems use something more modern, like G-Code. It's actually quite amazing how much the contemporary G-Code resembles the original APT language shown here. One big difference between these two is that APT explicitly defines the geometry of the toolpath, whereas in G-Code it's more discretized or given in direct coordinates on the path.
John T Parsons is widely considered the father of numerical control and Doug Ross is considered the father of APT. Doug also coined the name CAD (computer aided drafting). These two men along with Herman Hollerith, (who pioneered the electromechanical punched card tabulator) and H. Calendar (who created the first servomechanism) are who we can thank for the beginning of the CNC tooling industry. Imagine where the world would be without them!
These MIT Science Reports are all fascinating, and the substance of this is great! I must add, however, that Prof. Woodbury's delivery could be heralded as another great technological breakthrough -- the development of "Electronic Sominex."
Wow!!! This is how I learned how to program. Loved working with this program and the history.
This video is still very actual.
Numerical Control - in the aircraft industry. The birth of CNC. I guess a good idea catches on. I think they wanted something to super cede numerical control with more complicated logic... however I think the simpler CNC and the money from the aircraft industry machining was too difficult to override. They wanted an English language syntax similar to FORTRAN rather than G code which is closer and more dependent on the hardware. Similar to the difference between Java and C.
We called this "ticker tape" it was used to load the octal "boot strap" to a PDP computer, the boot strap program would allow the machine to access the hard disk drive. Thanks for posting.
Very intersting insight in the history of CNC. I know there was "NC" (numerically controlled) lathes before, but this must be where the "Computer" in CNC must have its beginnings. Doug Ross is an important name here.
In today's terms we'd call these 'CNC' machines.
Well, basically APT and CNC are synonymous in this context. A bit later the meaning of CNC evolved to indicate the whole manufacturing system, and APT became mostly the computer language, which controlled the CNC machines. APT is still used today in some legacy environments, but most of the systems use something more modern, like G-Code. It's actually quite amazing how much the contemporary G-Code resembles the original APT language shown here. One big difference between these two is that APT explicitly defines the geometry of the toolpath, whereas in G-Code it's more discretized or given in direct coordinates on the path.
Shouldn't they have named it PAT? Programmable Automatic Tools? They aren't really "Automatically Programmed."
No climb cutting... pft!
lol...i hear ya
They stoled patent from JOHN T. PARSONS he is the original founder of NC
John T Parsons is widely considered the father of numerical control and Doug Ross is considered the father of APT. Doug also coined the name CAD (computer aided drafting). These two men along with Herman Hollerith, (who pioneered the electromechanical punched card tabulator) and H. Calendar (who created the first servomechanism) are who we can thank for the beginning of the CNC tooling industry. Imagine where the world would be without them!
@@thomass8362 Yes CNC technology is future and inventing is so special
And these days we have CNC machines that are amazing at what they can do thanks to this research they done back then