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Page 360 - ... Steinmetz resents being called an inventor. He says: " I am only an engineer. My business is to construct engines that will transport an elemental form of energy into a million factories and homes, dividing this energy up into infinitesimal parts so it can be practically used to run sewing-machines, to churn, to wash dishes and to do the dead lift and drudgery that otherwise would have to be done by human hands.
Page 169 - ... cardigan jacket, cigar in mouth, sitting crosslegged on a laboratory work table. My disappointment was but momentary, and completely disappeared the moment he began to talk. I instantly felt the strange power of his piercing but kindly eyes, and as he continued, his enthusiasm, his earnestness, his clear conceptions and marvelous grasp of engineering problems convinced me that we had indeed made a great find. It needed no prophetic insight to realize that here was a great man, one who spoke with...
Page 415 - ... the sense perceptions. Modern physics has come to the same conclusion in the relativity theory, that absolute space and absolute time have no existence, but time and space exist only as far as things or events...
Page 169 - I was then in charge of the manufacturing and engineering of our company, and my views were sought as to the desirability of acquiring Eickemeyer's work. I remember giving hearty approval, with the understanding that we should thereby secure the services for our company of a young engineer named Steinmetz. I had read articles by him which impressed me with his originality and intellectual power, and believed that he would prove a valuable addition to our engineering force. "I shall never forget our...
Page 170 - He abolished the mystery surrounding alternating current apparatus and soon taught our engineers to design such machines with as much ease and certainty as those employing the old familiar direct current.
Page 236 - I confer this degree upon you as the foremost electrical engineer in the United States and therefore in the world.
Page 105 - Correspondences in Space Which Are Defined by a ThreeDimensional Linear System of Surfaces of the Nth Order.
Page 169 - Yonkers. I was startled, and somewhat disappointed, by the strange sight of a small, frail body, surmounted by a large head, with long hair hanging to the shoulders, clothed in an old cardigan jacket, cigar in mouth, sitting cross-legged on a laboratory work table. "My disappointment was but momentary, and completely disappeared the moment he began to talk. I instantly felt the strange power of his...
Page 148 - Great and important as is the work which Dr. Steinmetz accomplished in later years, there is a point of view from which it may be said that...
Page 409 - Engineering is the application of science to the service of man, and so to-day science is the foundation not only of our prosperity, but of our very existence, and thus necessarily has become the dominating power in our human society.