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governorIn engineering, any device that controls the speed of a machine or engine, usually by regulating the intake of fuel or steam. Scottish inventor James Watt invented the steam-engine governor in 1788. It works by means of heavy balls, which rotate on the end of linkages and move in or out because of centrifugal force according to the speed of rotation. The movement of the balls closes or opens the steam valve to the engine. When the engine speed increases too much, the balls fly out, and cause the steam valve to close, so the engine slows down. The opposite happens when the engine speed drops too much. |
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| The Great River Gihon, well used to the moods of kings, slid between his mile-wide banks toward the sea, while the Governor praised God in a loud and searching cry never before heard by the river. The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. When the Cobbler happened to fall sick himself of a serious illness, the Governor of the town determined to test his skill. |
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