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Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a Prussian-American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers…
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science · American mathematician and electrical engineer (1865–1923) · mathematician · electrical engineer · physicist · inventor · also Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz, Charles P. Steinmetz, Charles Steinmetz, Steinmetz
Born 9 April 1865 · Died 26 October 1923 · Q60677
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Moviefone: Divine Discontent Charles Proteus Steinmetz (2014) - Where to Watch
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insider.si.edu: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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1983· 1 entry
The US Post Office included Steinmetz in a series of postage stamps commemorating American inventors
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1977).
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1976· 1 entry
“The Ancient People and the Newly Come”
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1971· 1 entry
And restored for use in campus ceremonies
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1959· 1 entry
By the actor Rod Steiger in the CBS television anthology series, The Joseph Cotten Show
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1925· 1 entry
Sponsored by the Schenectady branch of the IEEE
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1923· 3 entries
Died 1923-10-26.
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At the age of 58 and was buried in Vale Cemetery in Schenectady
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Board member on the Schenectady Board of Education for six years, including four years as the board's president
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1914· 1 entry
Won Cedergren Medal (1914).
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1913· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1913).
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1901· 1 entry
And a doctorate from Union College in 1903
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1894· 1 entry
Steinmetz founded the Mohawk Aerial Navigation Company (Ltd
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1893· 1 entry
Eickemeyer's company, along with all of its patents and designs, was bought by the newly formed General Electric Company, where Steinmetz quickly became known as the engineering wizard in GE's engineering community
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1888· 1 entry
Was forced to flee to Zurich, Switzerland, as the German government was preparing to prosecute him for his socialist activities
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1865· 2 entries
In Breslau, Province of Silesia, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland), the son of Caroline (Neubert) and Karl Heinrich Steinmetz
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Born 1865-04-09.
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