Welcome to the Woodward Governor Company unofficial History Site

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Looking back at the evolution of the Woodward governor.

The Woodward horizontal compensating water wheel governor. $.jpg Information from the Woodward Water Wheel Governor Catalogue, circa 1905.ThumbnailsSaving and posting Woodward governor history documents one page at a time.Information from the Woodward Water Wheel Governor Catalogue, circa 1905.ThumbnailsSaving and posting Woodward governor history documents one page at a time.Information from the Woodward Water Wheel Governor Catalogue, circa 1905.ThumbnailsSaving and posting Woodward governor history documents one page at a time.Information from the Woodward Water Wheel Governor Catalogue, circa 1905.ThumbnailsSaving and posting Woodward governor history documents one page at a time.

Elmer Woodward designed this governor in 1896 and patented the device. Elmer received the Patent number 608,245 for this governor model in 1898.