Woodward, Inc.

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Woodward, Inc. is an American designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control systems and control system components (e.g., pumps, controls, motors, actuators, air valves, position sensors, fuel nozzles, and electronics) for aircraft, aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment. The company also provides military devices and other defense equipment. Based in Colorado, the company was founded in 1870 in Rockford, Illinois, as The Woodward Governor Company by Amos Woodward in 1870. Initially, the company made speed controls for waterwheels (first patent No. 103,813) and eventually moved into mechanical controls for hydro turbines. In the 1920s and 1930s, Woodward began designing controls for diesel and other reciprocating engines and for industrial turbines. Also in the 1930s, Woodward developed a governor for variable-pitch aircraft propellers. Woodward parts were notably used in the GE engine on the United States military's...

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