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1. Practical Note on Intensified Gravity in Centrifugal Governors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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Extract

This paper, after a short introduction upon previous publications and experiences, describes in a plain and practical manner four steps of improvement recently made in the centrifugal governor of an equatorial driving clock; and touches on

1. The number of the pendulums;

2. Their weight and momentum;

3. Their chronometric principle; and

4. The intensification of the effect of gravity upon them, chiefly to increase the promptitude and energy of the centrifugal action.

Type
Proceedings 1868-69
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1869

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