Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 928
h other that thelatter is just sufficient to drive round the resisting vanes at a certain velocity, exactly correspondingwith the normal speed of the engine. Any increase of that speed, instead of accelerating the motion ofthe vanes, (the atmospheric resistance being nearly uniform,) tends to raise… … Figs. 2192 and 2193 are a side and end elevation of an arrangement in which this principle is carriedout in a more practical and more generally applicable form. It consists of an upright spindle s s, sup-ported in suitable bearings in a cast-iron standard R, placed, in the usual manner, over the…
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