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Balance-wheel

Patent drawing of a wooden-framed gear motor with a large cog-wheel and drum from which a weight hangs on a rope, alongside a smaller governor mechanism with a spring-loaded presser-foot pressing against a friction-wheel.

MOTORHenry D. Deschler · November 25, 1890

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