Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 54
wntype of horizontal engine at that time, made in Brooklyn. Theengine had been built to make 50 revolutions per minute, but beinga great deal too large for their use they had reduced the speed to25 revolutions per minute, and the complaint was that everytime the crank passed its centers the… … Charles B. RichardsA.D. 1858 THE CENTRAL COUNTERPOISE GOVERNOR 27 this action, I disconnected the governor from the valve and throt-tled the engine by hand, and showed them that the governor, whennot connected with the throttle-valve, rose and dropped onevery stroke, in the same way as when…
