State-Space History

1. Classic phase-space in physics (Gibbs 1901)
   System state = point in position-momentum space
   
2. Digital computer (1950s)
3. Finite State Machines (Mealy and Moore, 1960s)
4. Finite Automata
5. State-Space Models of Linear Systems
6. Reference:
   Linear system theory: The state space approach
   L.A. Zadeh and C.A. Desoer
   Krieger, 1979