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...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...
Were such salaries paid, many men of intellect now preoccupied with the details of business, law or war, could withdraw from active life and lend their minds, unharassed, to the service of human thought-men like Elihu Root, John Hay, Admiral Mahan, Steinmetz. Scholarship would come into its heritage; universities would be dignified. "Our typical 'University' of today would gradually find its place in the new system. Perhaps no great harm comes from assembling these vast crowds of healthy, noisy, young people. Let them enjoy themselves. But why miscall such a place of rendezvous a university...
...well they might. A native of Detroit, Dr. Scott was for nine years a student and protegé of no less a personage than the late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, wizened wizard of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., in whose laboratory more than once there was manufactured a miniature thunderstorm with artificial lightning...
...Steinmetz--A kind of piano...