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 968
connecting link with ends babbitted to fit pins on thecrank-wheel and slide. 26 is a wrought-iron lever bolted to the piece 19,which works on a stud-pin on the rear of the frame. The chain 35 is con-nected to the stop-rod 25, which is secured to a small lever on the mast nearthe ground. By bearing… … the rosette pattern, and runs independent of anyother part of the machine. In high winds, the increasedpressure on the independent side-vane N causes thewind-wheel gradually to turn round away from the wind,and raises the weighted lever 26. It is claimed that auniform rate of speed is thus…
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