Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants (1902)
Thurston, Robert H[enry], 1839-1903. [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 130
preceding illustration. The eccentric is so sus-pended from the disc, to which it is attached, that it maybe thrown across the shaft by the action of the governor, insuch a manner as to give the effect of the once commonand well known Dodd motion. It is carried on a lever,which is pivoted at one… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. log the governor, to be effected without alteration of thelead of the valve, so that the steam may be admitted, at ailtimes, at the same point in the revolution of the engine.This it does, since the line of the eccentric rod is, at thecommencement of stroke, in line with…
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