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Identifier: shaftgovernorsce00coll (find matches)
Title: Shaft governors, centrifugal and inertia; simple methods for the adjustment of all classes of shaft governors
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Collins, Hubert Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: Governors (Steam-engine)
Publisher: New York (etc.) Hill Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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it is the object of my paper to describe.In Appletons Encyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics,published in 1878, and edited by the ablest corps ofspecialists ever employed at that date in this country,is a very full and complete article on the steam engine,but it makes no reference whatever to the use of theshaft governor, which was perhaps inexcusable atthat date, as a shaft governor was exhibited at theCentennial Exposition in 1876. The oldest book which I have in my library con-taining references to the shaft governor is SteamUsing; or. Steam Engine Practice, written by Prof.Charles A. Smith, of St. Louis, in 1885. In this workare published detailed drawings of a Westinghouseengine, and also a Buckeye engine, and each is shownwith a shaft governor. I have no information athand which enables me to state the earliest dates atwhich these companies commenced the building ofshaft governors on a commercial scale, nor am I cer-tain but that other engine companies introduced the SHAFT GOVERNORS
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FIG. I EVOLUTION OF THE SHAFT GOVERNOR use of the governor at a somewhat earher date. Viewsof these governors as given in Professor Smiths workare shown in Figs. 2 and 3. At the Centennial Expo-sition at Philadelphia, held in 1876, Prof. John E.Sweet showed an engine fitted with a shaft governorwhich had been built under his supervision by stu-shaftgovernorsce00coll

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