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807 Locomotive Engineering. [Hancock.]

Lectures 12-1, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

A study of the locomotive as an important type of steam power
plant; one in which there are problems of acute interest, many unsolved,
and which are receiving a large share of attention from engineers.
The course is meant to study the locomotive as it is now
and to outline in a measure, some of its deficiencies and its possibilities.

The problems of inertia effects, balancing, tractive force,
track and train resistances, hauling capacity, etc., are treated in lectures;
a clear physical conception is gained by careful examination
and study of the machine itself, and for a knowledge of its history
and present development general reading and reports are required.

[Required, Winter, in Course II (4).]