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 164
onsists of a governor-pulley, from the arms of 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 its])rinciples and mode of action, with those…
Steam-engines
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