A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed.
They are found in places such as nuclear power plants, ships, aircraft and mainframe computers.
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 Control panel for an Overhead crane |
 Some of the control panels of a Severn class lifeboat |
 Control panel from two Horizontal Return Tubular boiler |
 One of the control panels from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Control Center Firing Room during the Apollo era |
See also
- Graphical user interface
- Dashboard mechanical
- Patch board
- Telephone switchboard
- Electric switchboard
- Mixing console
- Lighting control console
- Fire alarm control panel
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