Download or read book Governors and the Governing of Prime Movers (Classic Reprint) written by W. Trinks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Governors and the Governing of Prime Movers While inventors were busy bringing out new types of governors, usually without any knowledge of the mutual relations between prime mover and governor, these very rela tions were studied by two widely different types of men, namely the operating engineer, and the mathematician. The former found that the wonderful isochronous governors, such as the parabolic governor, the cosine governor, and many others, were worthless because they caused perpetual hunting and racing. Oil gag-pots were found to be necessary; and fre quently stabilizing springs were concealed in them; but with all this practical progress, the theoretical foundation or proof for the exasperating behavior remained unknown to engineers, or else was not understood by them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.