Locomotive text for engineers and firemen; a complete treatise on the engine, electric head-light and standard code of train rules (1908)
National correspondence school of railroading, Chicago. [from old catalog] · [Chicago] · leaf 305
35, and bronze plungers 38.There are two governor stands, two connecting links, andthe cross-arm has two ends instead of one. Attached tothe ends of cross-arm 36 are the connecting links, and atthe other ends of these links are the governor valves orbronze plungers 38. The connecting links are… … 86. se 8£/ ae PLATE 134. As the turbine wheel 2^ increases its speed, the gov-ernor weights revolve more rapidly about the verticalaxis of the shaft, and tend to move outward. In doingso they raise center piece 37, which pushes cross-arm 36farther away from the wheel. The ends of the cross-arm…
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