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907: Electric Traction:

11:30-12:30, T. Th. S.

Lectures on the various types of electric motors for traction purposes,
controllers and systems of control, brakes, rolling stock, track, train performance,
and electric railway economics. A discussion with problems of
the complete electrification system for electric railways, including generating

apparatus, transmission, sub-stations and equipment, distribution, and utilization
of electrical energy for car propulsion. (Spring.) Optional for Hydroelectric
Engineering (920), or Illumination and Photometry (906-956), only
one given in any year.

Professor Rodman.