The device used a coneshaped float to monitor the level of the water in its reservoir and adjust the rate of flow of 151 the water accordingly to maintain a constant level of water in the reservoir, so that it neither overflowed nor was allowed to run dry. This was the first artificial truly automatic self-regulatory device that required no outside intervention between the feedback and the controls of the mechanism.
This was the first artificial truly automatic self-regulatory device that required no outside intervention between the feedback and the controls of the mechanism. The word cybernetics was first used in the context of self-governance by Plato (428-348 BC) in the Laws to signify the governance of people.
