Charles P. Steinmetz biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Charles P. Steinmetz

Author Name:

Charles P. Steinmetz

Born As:

Carl August Rudolph Steinmetz

Other Names:

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Born:

9 Apr 1865

Died:

26 Oct 1923




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Electrical engineer and Socialist                          
Selected Works:

At the time of his death - Steinmetz held over 200 patents: 

Patent 533 -244  - System of distribution by alternating current January 29 - 1895
Patent 559 -419 - Inductor dynamo
Patent 583 -950 - Three phase induction meter
 Patent 594 -145 - Inductor dynamo
Patent 714 -412 - Induction motor
Patent 717 -464 - System of electrical distribution
Patent 865 -617 - Induction motor
Patent 1 -025 -932 - Means for producing light May 7 - 1912
Patent 1 -042 -986 - Induction furnace
Patent 1 -230 -615 - Protective device
Patent RE11 -576 - Inductor dynamo

Theory and calculation of alternating current phenomena" - with the assistance of Ernst J Berg - 1897 Information from this book has been reprinted in subsequent engineering texts

"The Natural Period of a Transmission Line and the Frequency of lightning Discharge Therefrom" - The Electrical World - August 27 - 1898
Theoretical elements of electrical engineering- 1902
Future of Electricity -  Transcript of lecture to the New York Electrical Trade School - 1908
General lectures on electrical engineering - edited by Joseph Le Roy Hayden - 1908
Radiation - light and illumination :  Engineering lectures -  Union College - edited by Joseph Le Roy Hayden - 1909
Elementary lectures on electric discharges - Waves and Impulses and other transients - 1911
Theory and calculation of transient electric phenomena and oscillations - 1911
America and the new epoch - c 1916
Engineering mathematics; a series of lectures delivered at Union College - 1917
Theory and calculation of electric apparatus - 1917
Essay on Science and Religion at Project Gutenberg Homer Heath Nugent - 1922
Four lectures on relativity and space - 1923                          
Mother 
Father Carl Heinrich Steinmetz                          
Certificate of Merit of The Franklin Institute - 1908
Elliott Cresson Medal - 1913
Cedergren Medal - 1914.                          
Born with dwarfism, hunchback and hip dysplasia, as did his father and grandfather.

Emigrated to the United States in 1889, to escape arrest - and his family.