Word: generale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Cos. were merged to form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors...
Before Schenectady became The Electric City the new General Electric quarters there were a firetrap. No Smoking signs were placed around. Enraged, Steinmetz marched home, sent a note: "No smoking, no Steinmetz." Result: thereafter he alone smoked...
...newsgatherers and scientists met at Dr. Steinmetz's invitation in a General Electric laboratory at Schenectady. Curious, they looked at a big generator the little doctor had made. Nervous, most of them looked away again. They knew what they were there for. The doctor was to create an indoor thunderstorm, destroy a miniature village with a million horsepower of artificial lightning. Suppose, thought the spectators, the sardonic-looking wizard should go suddenly mad! Suppose he should turn his electrical fury...
...General Electric, from...
...General Motors, from 84 3/8 to 70, or a decrease...