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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1208772, member: 24274&quot;]History lesson du jour -- submitted for your approval a $2 obsolete note from the Bank of Granville in Ohio, circa 1860. This is actually from ABNCo&#039;s American Paper Money Collection, but since the bank never actually opened, this proof may be the only way we get to see it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The central vignette, titled &quot;The Mechanic,&quot; was engraved by Lorenzo Hatch and W.W. Rice. It shows something called a pendulum governor or fly-ball governor. This device was attached to an engine (you can see the belt at the top) to govern its speed. It spun on its shaft with the weights acting as a brake to prevent the engine from racing out of control. The faster it spun, the further out the fly-balls extended. At top speed the weights spun out to their limit.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that, my friends, is the true origin of the term &quot;balls out.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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