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Answer the questions:

• I. When did the first automatic regulatory system appear?
• 2. How did Ktesibios's system operate
• 3, When was the word cybernetics' first used?
• 4. Who used it and how?
• 5. What kind of classification did Ampere do?
• 6. What does the word cybernetics' mean?
• 7. Who is considered to be the founder of cybernetics?
• 8. What did Wiener denote by the word 'cybernetics?
• 9. What sciences was cybernetics founded on?
• 10. What scientists contributed to its development?

Translate these word-combinations:

• The first artificial automatic regulatory system;
• a water clock; ancient Greece;
• a holding tank; to use a coneshaped float;
• to monitor the level of the water;
• to adjust the rate of flow of the water; accordingly;
• to maintain a constant level of water;
• to overflow;
• to run dry; self-regulatory device;
• to require no outside intervention;
• feedback; self-governance;
• to systematize the human knowledge;