Word: steinmetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine was centre-staged last week in a sedate jamboree marking the 40th anniversary of G. E.'s first research laboratory. Almost unheard of in 1900 were science laboratories as adjuncts and stimulants of manufacture. Charles Proteus Steinmetz and a G. E. patent lawyer persuaded Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr.-then technical director, later president-to found one. To start it Rice picked Willis Rodney Whitney, a brilliant and forceful young chemistry teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...