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Self-regulating speed control

Two patent drawing sheets show a side and end elevation of a wooden-framed horse-power treadmill machine with an endless linked platform running over polygonal drums, fly wheels, a curved friction brake beam, and a ball-type centrifugal governor with connecting levers and rods.

HORSE-POWERMartin Harris Cornell · February 10, 1852

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