Charles Proteus Steinmetz
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Education, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Teaching, Teachers, Engineering, Engineers
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, 19th Century European History, German History, American History 1878-1900
Article abstract: Steinmetz helped lay the engineering foundations for the large-scale use of electric power through his technical achievements, his role as an educator and inspirer of other engineers, and his creation of research and engineering institutions. In the process, he came to personify electrical engineering to a public that understood little of its technical details.
Early Life
Charles Proteus Steinmetz was born Carl August Steinmetz in 1865, in Breslau, Germany (modern Wroclaw, Poland). His father, Carl Heinrich Steinmetz, son of a German...
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