Watt's governor Small 320×301 Medium 640×602 Large 1024×963 Download Tiff Original 2400×2256 | (298.1 KB) Description "Watt's method of regulation, which consists in varying the pressure of the steam supplied to the engine by opening or closing more or less a valve in the supply pipe."—Finley, 1917 Keywords governor, power, steam, valve, watt Galleries Steam Power Generation Source: Finley, John H. Nelson's Perpetual Loose-Leaf Encyclopedia (New York City: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1917) 11:422