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centrifugal governor

mechanism for automatically controlling the speed of an engine
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centrifugal governor

Summary

centrifugal governor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (210 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • centrifugal governor is credited with the discovery of James Watt[2].
  • centrifugal governor is the creator of James Watt[3].
  • centrifugal governor's image is recorded as Centrifugal governor.png[4].
  • centrifugal governor's subclass of is recorded as appliance[5].
  • centrifugal governor's Commons category is recorded as Centrifugal governors[6].
  • centrifugal governor's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 22155[7].
  • +1788-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of centrifugal governor[8].
  • centrifugal governor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0lftn[9].
  • centrifugal governor's facet of is recorded as control theory[10].
  • centrifugal governor's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • centrifugal governor's uses is recorded as sensor[12].
  • centrifugal governor's uses is recorded as angular velocity[13].
  • centrifugal governor's uses is recorded as feedback[14].
  • centrifugal governor's uses is recorded as shaft[15].
  • centrifugal governor's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 031862[16].
  • centrifugal governor's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777911443[17].
  • centrifugal governor's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3966755[18].

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Works and Contributions

centrifugal governor is credited with the discovery of James Watt[2]. It is the creator of James Watt[3].

Why It Matters

centrifugal governor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (210 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19]

Related Entities

James Watt

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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