Word: steinmetzes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz, ranked with Marconi, Edison, Tesla, as one of the world's supreme masters of electricity, is dead at 58 in Schenectady, the scene of his 30 years' labors as Chief Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Co. He had recently returned in a weakened condition from a six weeks' lecture tour to the Pacific Coast, and was confined to his bed, but believed to be in no danger. Death was due to chronic myocarditis, sudden failure striking the weakened wall of the heart...
...Steinmetz, unmarried, had no relatives in the U. S. except a half-sister, Miss Clara Steinmetz of Manhattan. But years ago he adopted J. Le Roy Hayden, his chief assistant, who, with his wife and three children, lived in Dr. Steinmetz's home and cherished him as "grandpop...
...Germany, in 1865, the son of a Government railway official, he studied in the Universities of Breslau and Berlin and the Zurich Polytechnic, specializing in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and electrical engineering. In 1889 a young American schoolmate persuaded him to come with him to America in the steerage. Steinmetz has been a life-long hunchback, and this, with a temporary illness, defective sight, no money, little English, almost kept him out of the U. S. But the Ellis Island officials finally admitted him on the pleas of his friend. He got a job as a draftsman from Rudolf Eickemeyer...
...because they failed to grasp the importance, and shrank from wordly contact into the congenial company of their fellows. The slogan of modern engineering--"If it's not practical, it's not good theory" is comparatively recent, and no one has put it more into practice than Dr. Steinmetz...
...Schenectady one of the best electircal laboratories in the world. Once shown the possibilities of science, the commercial world has not been slow; but it had to be shown. Among the first of those who could really prove that an investment in scientific knowledge brought substantial returns was Dr. Steinmetz; that alone makes him one of the immortals...