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The steam-engine and other heat-motors (1909)

Creighton, William Henry Paul, 1859- · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 354

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, and the speed would haveto reach 300 revolutions per minute to change the height .88 —.39 = .48 inch. These dimensions are entirely too small for anypractical mechanism. Referring to our fundamental formula, page 331, let k = 2.This will be the case when the upper and lower arms are of… … Fig. 171. weight be nine times that of one of the balls, then the height ofthe cone will be ten times that of the simple pendulum. Thismakes this form of governor available in cases of governor revolu-tions ranging from 200 to 240 revolutions or higher. Sensitiveness.—If iV\ is the highest and N2…

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