Woodward, Inc.
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• is the world's oldest and largest independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control systems and control system components (e
• g
• fuel pumps, engine controls, actuators, air valves, fuel nozzles, and electronics) for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment
• Woodward, Inc
• was founded as The Woodward Governor Company by Amos Woodward in 1870
• Woodward Governor Company initially made controls for waterwheels (first patent No
• 103,813) and then moved to 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
• And when the United States military's first turbine-powered aircraft successfully flew, its GE engine had a Woodward control