The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was sub-contracled into this research and development by the Parsons Corporation, during the period 1949-1951, and jointly they developed the first control system which could be adapted to a wide range of cnc machine tools. 

The Cincinnati Machine Tool Company converted one of their standard 28 inch "HydroTel" milling machines to a three-axis "automatic"milling machine for this contract, having removed the contouring equipment. 

This machine made use of a servo-mechanism for the drive system on the axes, which controlled the table positioning, cross-slide and spindle head. The machine can be classified as the first truly three axis continuous path machine tool and it was able to generate a required shape, or curve, by simultaneous slideway motions, if necessary.

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