Welcome to the Woodward Governor Company unofficial History Site

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A vintage machine shop manufacturing history project.

c87dcd2fd15af34e2f93fa7392d7ec7b.jpg A vintage machine shop manufacturing history project.ThumbnailsA vintage picture showing Woodward's smallest water wheel governor to the most complicated jet engine governor control system.

The two patents are as follows. Patent number 103,813 is from May 31, 1870 and patent number 432,105 is from July 15, 1890.