Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 297
revolve the casing. This tendency is resisted by a weightacting upon an increasing leverage, so that equilibrium can only 260 MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF POWER PLANTS. exist at a definite speed. In these two latter forms the posi-tion of the spindle and of the casing as determined by the speedadjusts… … Fig. 2i8„ Resistance-governors are isochronous in principle, but lacksensitiveness to respond instantly to minor variations ofspeed. The objection to them is that they absorb continu-ously a certain amount of power, while in the balanced types,when no rearrangement of forces occurs, nothing but…
Mechanical engineering · Steam power plants
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