Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 48
variation inspeed that caused this action of the governor. The heaviest load THE CENTRAL COUNTERPOISE GOVERNOR 21 on the engine, however, was dragging rapidly the two tables loadedwith stone. This caused the governor to settle still further, butalways the motion of the engine seemed to be the same… … The First Porter Governor. had but little to do, and kept up with the cutting-machine veryeasily. The governor fascinated everybody who witnessed itsoperation. I first made the drawing for the governor with the weighthanging to the slide. Mr. John McLaren, a machinist who had done 22 EXGIXEERING…
