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The first five Woodward patents can be read in the patent gallery.

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The Woodward patent numbers on the dial are as follows. Number 103,813 then number 432,105 then number 608,245 then number 679,353 and the last patent on the water wheel governor dial is patent number 1,106,434. Patent history is fun! There are several binders full of vintage Woodward patents now in the oldwoodward.com archives in 2019.

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