Year | 2020 |
Date | 08-May |
Volume | 224 |
Issue | 4,638 |
Page | 706 |
Category | Steam |
Part | 1 |
Title | The Watt Governor |
Author | Mitch Barnes |
Notes | Gives a short potted history of the 'Watt' Governor which bursts a few myths before outlining how it works. What is it and why have one? Expensive à, origins, Hall and Co., Waddon Pumping Station now at Kew, Boulton and Watt governor, Brixton Windmill, how did this device become associated with James Watt? Lap Engine of 1788, Watt's engine at the Albion Mill, a contemporary print by S.W.Flores showing Boulton and Watt's Albion Mill ablaze |