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Records, 1925-1960.

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The records of the Brown Instrument Company consist of research files documenting the development of measuring instruments and industrial control systems used in continuous process manufacturing. The files trace the evolution of electromechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic devices produced by the Brown Company. Trade catalogs dating from 1910 show that Brown's earliest electric meters were designed to measure and control heat and gases used in continuous firing iron and steel furnaces. By the late 1930s Brown found new markets for these temperature control devices and began producing a millivoltmeter to regulate and control the temperatures under which industrial processes took place. The records show that after World War II Brown experimented with remote control devices similar to those which had been recently developed at M.I.T.'s Servomechanisms Laboratory.

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