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Governor (device)

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A governor, or speed limiter or controller, is a device used to measure and regulate the speed of a machine, such as an engine. [1]

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  1. 86 relations: Aston Martin, Audi, Audi Sport GmbH, Autobahn, Beam engine, Bentley, BMW, Bus transport in the United Kingdom, Cadillac, Carburetor, Centrifugal governor, Coach transport in the United Kingdom, Computer hardware, Cruise control, Electric generator, Electricity, Electronics, Elevator, Engine, Engine-generator, Europe, Fan (machine), Ferrari, Fire engine, Flywheel, Frequency, Garden, General Motors Europe, Gentlemen's agreement, Gibbs free energy, Heat, Hit-and-miss engine, Ignition system, Inertia, Internal combustion engine, Jaguar Cars, James Clerk Maxwell, James Watt, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Lawn, Lawn mower, Machine, Maserati, Matthew Boulton, Mercedes-AMG, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, Millstone, ... Expand index (36 more) »

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars and grand tourers.

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Audi

Audi AG is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany.

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Audi Sport GmbH

Audi Sport GmbH, formerly known as quattro GmbH, Retrieved 30 November 2016 is the high-performance car manufacturing subsidiary of Audi, itself a subsidiary of the greater Volkswagen Group.

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Autobahn

The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.

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Beam engine

A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.

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Bentley

Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs.

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BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly abbreviated to BMW, is a German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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Bus transport in the United Kingdom

Buses are the most widespread and most commonly used form of public transport in the United Kingdom.

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Cadillac

Cadillac Motor Car Division, or simply Cadillac, is a division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) that designs and builds luxury vehicles.

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Carburetor

A carburetor (also spelled carburettor or carburetter) is a device used by a gasoline internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine.

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Centrifugal governor

A centrifugal governor is a specific type of governor with a feedback system that controls the speed of an engine by regulating the flow of fuel or working fluid, so as to maintain a near-constant speed. Governor (device) and centrifugal governor are mechanical power control and mechanisms (engineering).

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Coach transport in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has a number of intercity coach services.

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Computer hardware

Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.

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Cruise control

Cruise control (also known as speed control, cruise command, autocruise, or tempomat) is a system that automatically controls the speed of an automobile.

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Electric generator

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit.

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Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge.

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Electronics

Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.

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Elevator

An elevator (North American English) or lift (British English) is a machine that vertically transports people or freight between levels.

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Engine

An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy.

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Engine-generator

An engine–generator is the combination of an electrical generator and an engine (prime mover) mounted together to form a single piece of equipment.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fan (machine)

A fan is a powered machine used to create a flow of air.

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Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian luxury sports car manufacturer based in Maranello.

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Fire engine

A fire engine or fire truck is a vehicle, usually a specially-designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus.

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Flywheel

A flywheel is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the square of its rotational speed.

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Frequency

Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature.

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General Motors Europe

General Motors Europe (often abbreviated to GM Europe) was the European subsidiary of the American automaker General Motors ("GM").

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Gentlemen's agreement

A gentlemen's agreement, or gentleman's agreement, is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties.

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Gibbs free energy

In thermodynamics, the Gibbs free energy (or Gibbs energy as the recommended name; symbol G) is a thermodynamic potential that can be used to calculate the maximum amount of work, other than pressure-volume work, that may be performed by a thermodynamically closed system at constant temperature and pressure.

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Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.

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Hit-and-miss engine

A hit-and-miss engine or Hit 'N' Miss is a type of stationary internal combustion engine that is controlled by a governor to only fire at a set speed.

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Ignition system

Ignition systems are used by heat engines to initiate combustion by igniting the fuel-air mixture.

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Inertia

Inertia is the tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes its speed or direction to change.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Jaguar Cars

Jaguar is the sports car and luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England.

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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist with broad interests who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

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Lamborghini

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of luxury sports cars and SUVs based in Sant'Agata Bolognese.

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Land Rover

Land Rover is a British brand of predominantly four-wheel drive, off-road capable vehicles, owned by multinational car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), since 2008 a subsidiary of India's Tata Motors.

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Lawn

A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawn mower (or sometimes grazing animals) and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes—it is also commonly referred to as part of a garden.

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Lawn mower

A lawn mower (also known as a grass cutter or simply mower, also often spelled lawnmower) is a device utilizing one or more revolving blades (or a reel) to cut a grass surface to an even height.

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Machine

A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.

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Maserati

Maserati S.p.A. is an Italian luxury vehicle manufacturer.

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Matthew Boulton

Matthew Boulton (3 September 172817 August 1809) was an English businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and silversmith.

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Mercedes-AMG

Mercedes-AMG GmbH, commonly known as AMG (Aufrecht, Melcher, Großaspach), is the high-performance subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz AG.

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Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz, commonly referred to as Mercedes and sometimes as Benz, is a German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926.

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Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren (C199 / R199 / Z199) is a grand tourer jointly developed by German automotive manufacturer Mercedes-Benz and British automobile manufacturer McLaren Automotive and sold from 2003 to 2010.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains.

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Modular design

Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules (such as modular process skids), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules or between different systems.

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Moped

A moped is a type of small motorcycle, generally having a less stringent licensing requirement than full motorcycles or automobiles.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Opel

Opel Automobile GmbH, usually shortened to Opel, is a German automobile manufacturer which has been a subsidiary of Stellantis since 16 January 2021.

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Pneumatics

Pneumatics (from Greek πνεῦμα 'wind, breath') is a branch of engineering that makes use of gas or pressurized air.

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Porsche

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Propeller (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, an aircraft propeller, also called an airscrew,Beaumont, R.A.; Aeronautical Engineering, Odhams, 1942, Chapter 13, "Airscrews".

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Proportional–integral–derivative controller

A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three-term controller) is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control.

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Pulse (signal processing)

A pulse in signal processing is a rapid, transient change in the amplitude of a signal from a baseline value to a higher or lower value, followed by a rapid return to the baseline value.

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Regulator (automatic control)

In automatic control, a regulator is a device which has the function of maintaining a designated characteristic.

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Saab Automobile

Saab Automobile AB was a car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile.

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Servomechanism

In mechanical and control engineering, a servomechanism (also called servo system, or simply servo) is a control system for the position and its time derivatives, such as velocity, of a mechanical system.

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Servomotor

A servomotor (or servo motor or simply servo) is a rotary or linear actuator that allows for precise control of angular or linear position, velocity, and acceleration in a mechanical system.

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Speed

In kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as v) of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantity.

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Speed limiter

A speed limiter is a governor used to limit the top speed of a vehicle. Governor (device) and speed limiter are mechanical power control and mechanisms (engineering).

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Spring (device)

A spring is a device consisting of an elastic but largely rigid material (typically metal) bent or molded into a form (especially a coil) that can return into shape after being compressed or extended.

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Steam engine

A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.

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Steam turbine

A steam turbine is a machine that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.

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Steam turbine governing

Steam turbine governing is the procedure of controlling the flow rate of steam to a steam turbine so as to maintain its speed of rotation as constant. Governor (device) and steam turbine governing are mechanical power control.

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Thermodynamic equilibrium

Thermodynamic equilibrium is an axiomatic concept of thermodynamics.

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Thermodynamic system

A thermodynamic system is a body of matter and/or radiation separate from its surroundings that can be studied using the laws of thermodynamics.

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Throttle

A throttle is a mechanism by which fluid flow is managed by constriction or obstruction.

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Tire

A tire (North American English) or tyre (Commonwealth English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which the wheel travels.

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Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.

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Truck

A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work.

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Vauxhall Motors

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Volkswagen

Volkswagen (VW)English:,. is a German automobile manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Voltage

Voltage, also known as (electrical) potential difference, electric pressure, or electric tension is the difference in electric potential between two points.

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Volvo Cars

Volvo Cars AB (Volvo personvagnar, styled VOLVO in the company's logo) is a Swedish multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles.

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Water turbine

A water turbine is a rotary machine that converts kinetic energy and potential energy of water into mechanical work.

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Wicket gate

A wicket gate, or simply a wicket, is a pedestrian door or gate, particularly one built into a larger door or into a wall or fence.

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Wide area synchronous grid

A wide area synchronous grid (also called an "interconnection" in North America) is a three-phase electric power grid that has regional scale or greater that operates at a synchronized utility frequency and is electrically tied together during normal system conditions.

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Wilson-Pilcher

Wilson-Pilcher was an English car company founded in 1901 and acquired by Sir WG Taken Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Limited in 1904.

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Windmill

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.

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Work (thermodynamics)

Thermodynamic work is one of the principal processes by which a thermodynamic system can interact with its surroundings and exchange energy.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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See also

Mechanical power control

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_(device)

Also known as CPU governor, Device governor, Electronic governor, Governor (machine), Governor (mechanics), Speed governor, Speed regulation.

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