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Edward Wilson Kimbark
Pages 232-235

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... These controls included those used to regulate series capacitator switching, dynamic braking, ctirect current (DC) line power boosting, generator dropping, load rejection, anct single-pole switching.
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... He was professor of electrical engineering at MIT from 1939 to 1950; assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1937 to 1939; a teacher of electrical engineering and gracluate subjects at MIT from 1933 to 1937; assistant curator of the Division of Power at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago from 1929 to 1932; an instructor in electrical engineering at the University of California from 1927 to 1929; and, from 1925 to 1927, a substation operator and assistant in the testing laboratory of the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, in Evanston, Illinois. From 1950 until 1955, he was professor of electrical engineering at the Instituto Tecnol6gico cle Aeronautica at Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he taught classes using his fluent Portuguese.
From page 235...
... He was a fellow and life member of IEEE and its Power Engineering Society. He was also a member of the Conference Internationale cles Grands Reseaux Electriques a Haute Tension, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the American Society for Engineering Education.


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