That mental model was crucial to the successful development of electromechanical devices which were to dominate the 19th century.
Later keypunches were electromechanical devices which combined several different functions in one unit.
Various other electromechanical devices were tested during the first half of the 20th century with little commercial success.
Flowers was also a pioneer of using tubes as very fast (compared to electromechanical devices) electronic switches.
It was strange that he trusted her more as a compass than he did an electromechanical device.
Benton and his colleagues used an electromechanical device to stimulate the back of the hand.
He said electronic switches had no moving parts and broke down less frequently than electromechanical devices.
In the 20th century signals were automated, at first with electromechanical devices and later with computers.
Software programs are different than other electromechanical devices because they are designed solely in terms of their function.
The inventor of a typical electromechanical device must design new physical features to qualify for a patent.