Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 48
econical pendulum was utilized byWatt in his governor, whichhas been a familiar feature onstationary engines till within afew years. In this apparatus twoballs were used, one on each sideof the axis, for the sake of bal-ance, which by their change ofhight with increase of speed of rotation were… … Fig. 24. 38 SIMPLE TYPES OF MOTION, 26. Parabolic Governor.—A more sensitive form of gov-ernor is that devised by Hnyghens, in which the revolvingmasses were constrained to move on the surface of a parab-oloid of revolution. The characteristic feature of this sur-face may be derived from the…
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