Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 420
s tobe correct, and its practical operation under careful tests proves it to be so. Governors are now made of various types, embodying this principle, and have been foundto compel the same number of revolutions per min. of the engine under any condition of loador boiler-pressure within the full… … Fig. 1.—Balls shaft-governor. 400 GOVERXORS. be sensitive must be as free as possible of friction. Second, to be powerful, the forces whichare in equilibrium must be large compared with the resistance of the valve to be moved.
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