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...curriculum, it may well establish the Chair of Spiritonomy and Spirities proposed by Mr. Chelsey, a New York spiritualist. Nothing could be more appropriate than to add these new sciences to the classic ones, Salesmanship and Domestic Science. Mr. Chelsey is now in touch with the late Dr. Charles Steinmetz, and with that aid is attempting to make an invention to "free mankind from its deplorable ignorance...
...engineer in charge of General Electric Co.'s general engineering laboratory; of heart disease; in Schenectady, N. Y. Head of General Electric's standardizing laboratory since 1896, he became engineer-in-charge when it was merged in 1919 with the consulting laboratory which the late great Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz founded. Under Dr. Robinson's direction were brought out the oscillograph, the mercury arc rectifier, the photophone...
...male; that is, the giving of the name to the family." Famed Tau Beta Pi members include: Robert Andrews Millikan,* Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Leo Hendrick Baekeland (bakelite),* President Harold Sherburne Boardman of University of Maine, the late George Washington Goethals (builder of Panama Canal),* the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,† Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry.† Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph Modjeski,* President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories,*President Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh University, Irving Langmuir of General Electric...
...prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan, Minor Cooper Keith (founder of the United Fruit Co.), Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, "the most valuable piece of apparatus General Electric had"; Robert Marion La Follette...
...Significance. Author Leonard's approach to Steinmetz, though factual, is tinged with hysterical admiration, the breathlessness of the new esthetic Science. It is sharply "written down" to the reader's level, contains much carping over the Steinmetz Socialism. Subject, not treatment, makes this biography outstanding...