The Automation Revolution: Modicon 084
By David Ray, Cyber City Circuits
The third Industrial Revolution
“Don’t go to the future with your plans. Go to the future with your mind. Bring the future to the present. Don’t take the present into the future. Take the future and bring it back to the present.” - Dick Morley
The eighteenth and nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented economic growth driven by the First Industrial Revolution . Inventions like the steam engine and the cotton gin helped turn tedious manual tasks into machine tasks using mechanical power. Gears, belts, chains, and pulleys made an intricate array of machines move. With very little in the way of process control, they were still able to out-produce the existing cottage industry manufacturing.
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