Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 74
Another variety of the centrifugal governor is represented in Figs. 2205 and 2206; the formerbeing a sectional elevation, and the latter a plan of a governor constructed by M. Bourdon of Taris,the peculiarity of which consists in the axis of rotation being horizontal instead of vertical. Themain… … same as that of the common governor. The spindle A A is of cast-iron, the part to the left beinghollow, while the middle portion is formed into a species of open framework, inclosing the principalpart of the mechanism. It revolves in ordinary plumber-blocks B B, and is set in motion by…
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