Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants (1899)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 162
consists of a governor-pulley, from the armsof which ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 141 are swung a set of weights, which are arranged to move inthe plane transverse to the shaft on which the pulley is car-ried. These weights, or balls, are restrained from movingoutwards, under the influence of… … The Ball Governor. eccentric, resulting in the alteration of the throw of thevalve in such a direction, and to such an extent as to bringthe engine very exactly to speed. To this extent, the Ballgovernor is identical, in its general construction and in itsprinciples and mode of action, with those…
Steam-engines
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