Fuel economy in steam power plants

The First 110 Years of Laboratory Automation: Technologies, Applications, and the Creative Scientist

“…It enables on skilled and efficient man greatly to increase the number and extent of his duties, and practically to treble of quadruple his efficiency; but it does not, and cannot, give accurate and valuable records when placed in the hands of untrained men. 22 Although these combustion analyzers are not truly examples of laboratory automation, they were highly significant to the development of the field. During the ensuing decades, there was an overlap of process control automation and laboratory automation.…”

“…It enables on skilled and efficient man greatly to increase the number and extent of his duties, and practically to treble of quadruple his efficiency; but it does not, and cannot, give accurate and valuable records when placed in the hands of untrained men. 22…”