Re: History

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Original poster: "Stork" <rwall3264-at-bellsouth-dot-net> 

For an excellent in depth  look at Steinmetz, see his biography "Charles 
Proteus Steinmetz  ---- /A Biography/", 1924,  by J. W. Hammond.
Steinmetz chose Hammond to write his biography.

However, before writing Tesla off as a flash in the pan review " The 
Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla"

RWW


>     Steinmetz's contributions continued for many years while Tesla's were
>more or less a flash in the pan.  Brilliant and valuable, but (at least
>in the field of electric power) almost a one-time event. Some of
>Steinmetz's important early work was on establishing the governing
>factors for transformer core loss and how to control them.  I haven't
>read the online article yet but I wonder if it mentioned that he was
>pretty well responsible for establishing Electrical Engineering as a
>formal college/university discipline.  Quite a guy.
>