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Jacquard loom

The first program was a hole in a card. Jacquard, 1804 — not a new loom, a mechanism on top. Hole = lift. No hole = stay down. A torn card is a bit flip. Don’t rebuild the loom. Same idea: Babbage’s engine, Hollerith’s 1890 census, your PLC recipe. Full story: automationhistory.com Would you sm

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Lithium ion

This can is smaller than a soda. Without it, robots stay on a cord. 1991: Sony ships the first commercial lithium-ion cell. Cans become modules. Modules become the pack that untethered the floor. Crush it and you don’t “reset the drive.” Isolate it. The BMS is first — not the program. Same cell:

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Automation History story

“Automation didn’t begin with robots or AI. Its story started thousands of years ago.” I created Automation History to preserve that story—and connect the inventions of the past to the technology changing our world today. From ancient machines to robotics and artificial intelligence, discover

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History automation connections

Ancient Float Valve → Automatic Level Sensors Ancient engineers built machines that could detect when a tank was full—without electricity. Early engineers used float valves to automatically control water levels. As the water rose, a floating mechanism moved with it and eventually restricted t

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Tabulation machine

In the 1880s, America was growing too fast to count. The 1880 census took more than eight years to finish by hand.” “Herman Hollerith had a better idea. Inspired by railroad tickets and Jacquard looms, he invented an electric tabulating machine that read holes punched in cards. For the 1890 cens

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The integrated circuit

The Integrated Circuit The invention that put an entire electronic system onto a tiny piece of silicon. This is a great follow-up to the transistor because it answers: How did we get from individual transistors to computers small enough to control machines? “The transistor changed the worl

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Automation careers

Automation is the work of making machines run a process with as little babysitting as possible — then keeping that system alive when something breaks. Plants, warehouses, food lines, water treatment, packaging, and auto plants all need this. You do not need a four-year degree to start. A lot of pe

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5 levels of learning automation

Automation isn’t one skill. It’s five. If you work in manufacturing, robotics, AI, or operations — this is the fastest way to actually understand the industry: 1. Vocabulary — know what everything is 2. History — know where it came from 3. Systems — know how the pieces connect 4. Economics

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AS/RS

In modern warehouses, space and speed decide who wins. Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems—AS/RS—use cranes, shuttles, and robots to store and retrieve goods with almost no human intervention. Goods are scanned. Software picks the best location. A crane or shuttle then lifts the load high

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The transistor

“Remove this one invention from history… and the modern world disappears.” No smartphones. No computers. No PLCs. No advanced industrial robots. No artificial intelligence. The invention? The transistor. Introduced at Bell Labs in 1947, the transistor could amplify electrica

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Rope pump

The Rope Pump Did you know people were using continuous-loop machines to lift water centuries ago? The rope pump used a loop of rope fitted with small discs or washers running through a pipe. As a wheel turned, the moving discs trapped water and continuously carried it upward, where it emp

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Ancestors

Every Machine Has an Ancestor The Forgotten Story Behind Modern Automation “The robot working in a factory today didn’t begin with a computer.” Its story began thousands of years ago. With humans learning to control water, gravity, motion, and time. Ancient engineers built machines p

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Bells alarms

Long before factories had flashing lights and digital alarms, a bell could coordinate an entire community. 6th-Century Bells → Automated Alerts By the 6th century, bells were increasingly used in monasteries and communities to signal specific times and activities. One sound could coordinate m

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Tool changer

Episode 202 — The Automatic Tool Changer What if a machine could choose its own tool? As American numerical-control machining advanced in the 1950s and 1960s, engineers developed machining centers capable of automatically switching between cutting tools. Instead of stopping production so a

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Connection

Automation Is Thousands of Years Older Than You Think “You were probably taught that automation began with factories.” It didn’t. Long before electricity, computers, or robots, humans were already trying to solve the same problem: How do we make something happen automatically? Ancien

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LiDAR

How Automation Learned to Measure the World “What if a machine could measure an entire room without ever touching anything?” That’s what LiDAR helps make possible. LiDAR sends out laser pulses and measures how long their reflections take to return. Those measurements can create a detail

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Al muradi

Al-Muradi — The Forgotten Engineer of Medieval Automation Nearly 1,000 years ago, an engineer in medieval Spain was designing machines that could move through sequences on their own. Al-Muradi, an 11th-century engineer from Al-Andalus, is associated with an extraordinary manuscript describing

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Filling mill

#emergingcreator The Fulling Mill Did you know medieval mills were automating manufacturing centuries before factories existed? By the Middle Ages, European fulling mills used waterwheels to power rotating shafts fitted with cams. As the shaft turned, the cams repeatedly lifted and relea

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Norbert weiner

Norbert Wiener — The Man Who Taught Machines to Correct Themselves What if a machine could recognize its own mistakes—and automatically correct them? In the 1940s, mathematician Norbert Wiener helped establish cybernetics, the study of communication and control in machines and living systems.

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Governer

The centrifugal governor, famously used on steam engines in the 1700s, could automatically regulate an engine’s speed without a human constantly adjusting it. As the engine sped up, spinning weights moved outward and reduced the steam supply; when it slowed, they dropped and allowed more steam.

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The history of automation from ancient to modern times. automationhistory.com