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Next time you put your balls to the wall you can feel a little smarter about it. Edited to add that the exact origin of the expression may never be known, but hey, this one's pretty good.

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The centrifugal governor regulated the speed output but not the millstone power. With this concept, a fellow mechanical engineer, James Watt was able to adapt Mead’s centrifugal governor for the ...

From a control device used on ancient windmills James Watt in 1788 evolved the steam-engine speed governor, a revolving spindle which works through centrifugal force. Most popular type of governor ...

Some steam locomotives used something called a centrifugal governor, which spins round weights on the ends of arms to open and close an aperture post into the steam cylinders.

The concept of centrifugal force is applied in rotating devices such as centrifuges, centrifugal pumps, centrifugal governors, centrifugal clutches, etc., as well as in centrifugal railways, ...