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...Charles Proteus Steinmetz, bearded, grotesque, labored in an undershirt. Wrapped in clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...
...million people. Fat Tuesday. Negroes leading mule-drawn floats. Descendants of Acadians munching tac-tac (pop corn), beignets (doughnuts). Prankish youths in cowboy costumes smacking maidens on their fulsome, laughing lips. Public feasts. Electric bulbs. Bacchanalia Motorcycle policemen. Passenger agents. Twelfth Night Revelers. Heebie-Jeebies. Comus, Momus, Mystics. Proteus. More floats. Bourbon Street bounders. Swirling crowds tumbling over one another like waves as they surge through the streets, seeking favors from the nobility aboard the floats. Torches. Band music. "No Parking Along Parade Route." Revelry. Bootleggers. Streaming champagne bottles. Girls. Fat Tuesday. The mystery of night in New Orleans. Dancing...
...Senator Marconi is no laboratory-hugging genius like the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz or Thomas Alva Edison. He hunts the fox, rides the bicycle, dines at his club, has parties of young people aboard his yacht. In conquering a new world he has not lost...
...Coffin had Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr. (1862-) and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923) as his technicians. (He could not keep Samuel Insull as sales agent.) Himself he devoted to inducing industry to use electricity for power...
Elected Lieutenant Governor two years and more ago, elected Governor while Lieutenant Governor and Senator while Governor-elect, his course resembles that of Proteus, lightning-change artist of mythology...