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THE UNION BAG & PAPER COMPANY'S HYDRO POWER PLANT TURBINES WITH LOMBARD GOVERNORS.

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The Lombard Water Wheel Governor Company developed and manufactured a hydraulic type water wheel governor about ten years before Elmer Woodward came out with his first hydraulic governor in 1912. Photo credit The Smithsonian Institution.