Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

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