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W. Ross Ashby constructed the adaptive ultrastable Homeostat in 1948

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English: The Homeostat consisted of four interconnected Royal Air Force bomb control units with inputs, feedback, and magnetically driven, water-filled potentiometers. It illustrated his law of requisite variety — automatically adapting its configuration to stabilize the effects of any disturbances introduced into the system.
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Author Mick Ashby, on behalf of the Estate of W. Ross Ashby

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