9 Questions
Which technology revolutionized machining processes?
NC machines
What were the early servomechanisms in NC machines augmented with?
Digital computers
Who built gun-copying lathes in the 19th century?
Thomas Blanchard
What technology did the automation of machine tool control begin with in the 19th century?
Cams
True or false: The history of numerical control (NC) began in the 19th century with the automation of machine tool control using cams?
True
True or false: The first NC machines were built in the 1920s and 1930s?
False
True or false: Analog and digital computers were rapidly added to early servomechanisms in NC machines?
True
True or false: The automation of machine tool control began with the modification of existing tools in the 1940s and 1950s?
True
True or false: CNC technology has not evolved since the development of the first NC machines in the 1940s and 1950s?
False
Test your knowledge of the history of numerical control (NC) and computer numerical control (CNC) technology with this quiz. Explore the origins of NC machines and their evolution into CNC technology.
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