Show 9 0 y V Y y V v bro H Hir Electrical ir EH i I n I Wizard A s S Dead Dr Steinmetz T Q tZ JL lC lllA I COLLAPSE OF HEART OCCURS IT BREAKFAST AT Creator of Artificial Light Lightning ning fling Breaks Down on Western Trip FAMOUS IN SCIENCE Steinmetz Rose To Emi Emi- Eminence Eminence Eminence nence From Penniless Immigrant NY N T Oct 28 Dr Dr Charles Proteus Steinmetz electrical wizard dl died 1 at nt his here today at the tho age ago o 0 68 56 years of a physical breakdown lown due to ft a trip to the tho Pacific coast from Crom which he I returned The Tho attending physician said eald breakfast oas as being served cred the pa- pa patient patient pa patient tient shea hen suddenly his heart seemed to give nay vay and he died Immediately A I lecent teat feat which attracted attention to the work of et the Hie electrical electrical cal eal wizard was th the production of an 11 indoor thunderstorm Including a 0 bolt of at The thunderstorm which Dr Steinmetz both Loth produced and conti oiled had all the tho characteristics of ot Its nat flat natural nat natural ural brother except the tho thunder thunderclouds thunderclouds clouds BLOCK IS ShATTERED At a demonstration of oC the Stein Stein- netz retz lightning the laboratory of at the Gene Geneal Electric company In March 1922 tho to- to familiar fa familiar forked tongues flashed through the air a 0 deafening raeh rash splintering a large block of wood hurling the 2 21 feet and ripping a tree from top to base The rhe bolt holt carried the tho en ot of 1000 horsepower about ono e 11 hundredths of ot the thc energy ot of ota ft a natural lightning bolt and ind lasted for one hundred thousandths part or of a n second I In our lightning Dr Steinmetz explained Vi n c get a 9 dig dig- dis discharge charge harge of amperes at ovet ovel OCO 00 volta lasting hasting tor for one ono hun hun- hundred hundred hun hundred dred thousandth part of cot a second This gives u us tho the explosive e tel tearing nd i-nd shattering effect of at real light light- ting Ing so eo that a n piece ol or small tre cd to 10 the discharge Is me- me me mechanically torn to pieces A piece of wire struck by the flash san san- van vanished an- an in duet dust SOLL G G S 'S S Ux iX MUTT un The between ligot- ligot ning ning energy and tic current Is similar to tha between LI J pound of d and a pint of oC gasolIne The pint of ot ga gasoline con con con- morA mort mor energy and cm cn do more work ork ork but it gives 0 ot off Its energy lowly Iy while hile the gics gh cs oft off Its energy explosively cly all at once at an enormous rate rato of oC po pots power or er Dr Steinmetz took a n keen per per- personal tonal Interest in socialism and In tte th Inthe work abroad of oel sod ceo co eco economists Last year ho he was I IL i can can- can candidate of the socialist party for tor the theoffice office of state engineer and BUrey sur BUr ey- ey 1 ey cr and although defeated ran well r head ot of the other candidates on his ticket During the campaign the socialist r l lt t an- an an flounced announced he ha had 1 worked out a plan for a gigantic l stern which would provide pro heat hent light and power tor for the tato In April 1922 Dr r Steinmetz nn nade public a a letter to Lenine chief hIe ot of state stale of ot t n Russia of- of 11 adI fering offering bis hla 8 services serIco r for tor technical ad ad- ad f ad-f T I Ico to that In 10 January of this thu year he be a post a i of the JI commIttee a of bas Ku colony In STORY or OP CJ CAll Irn CharlesP The American earner career ct Cf Charles Chlrles P Steinmetz A M or Ph D chief ehle consulting engineer of oC the General Words Schenectady N Y had Ita In New York In where penniless ard rd able to tos s speak ellk but very little English h ho he rived from Zurich lie He was oas accompanied by bv a young American who had been his fellow student at the Zurich lum bum One Une side aide of Steinmetz's lace laco was wae badly S swollen Sollen ollen as IlS the tho result of ot a trifling Illness aboard ship and the Immigration authorities at Ellis Island refused at first to allow him to enter the country He lie was sent ent andas to the detention pen end and as only released by thy thu eloquence and persuasion of ot his American companion A few rew later latH he became a naturalized en At the tho time of hl his death Dr Steinmetz was WI regard regarded ell not only as JJ ony ono one of the tore foremost most authorities on y 1 engineering but bill one ono ot of tho- tho th greatest mathematicians In tn the rid Strangely b one of on 1 0 leo I-HO i a OF HEART AT BREAKFAST Continued From r Pete co 0 One his hig neatest us M a IL child was in n learning the th multiplicatiOn table e en Ib lEIZ BOrn In the city of lau Ger- Ger Germany Germany many on April April 9 1866 1865 and edu- edu educated cAt d at If its fAmous I young SteInmetz St early In- In In et at a time when vigorous steps tepa wore were being taken against It by the tha government I ment nt An issue of at a 8 a socIalist pub which In la which the fhi students were more interested ted and In which Steinmetz I had several articles article was wag Confiscated contla the publication suspended impended and nd the editors an sted and im- im imprisoned im imprisoned Steinmetz fled led from Oer- Oer Ger Germany many and found refuge with A friend a clergyman man near the tho Au Aus- Aus Austrian trian trian border rom front thoro thure be he he went ont to Zurich Two weeks after after landing In AmerIca Steinmetz obtained em- em employment em employment In the manufacturing est of Rudolph Eickemeyer Eicke- Eicke meyer Eicke-meyer meyer at N Y as aa a draftsman At that time the com om company com company pany was as making a ft few motor and generators generator and had bad just taken up work on the problems of othe the electric street coq car jointly with i D Field All the tho designs for tho the experiments with the elec- elec electric electric elec electric cars care passed through his hands Quarters for tor a 0 laboratory ob- ob obtained ob obtained and he began to specialize on magnetic testing Ills His writings writing writing-on on electrical subjects bugan began to at- at at attract tract attention his hia of the law of eliciting much Interest on the pert part of o elec- elec electrical electrical elec electrical engineers IV IN CI CITY POLITICS In 1892 the General Electric company bought the tha electrical man man- manufacturing manufacturing business of the meyer Eicke-meyer meyer meer company except the making ot of motors for elevators which theOtis the theOtis Otis company took over or to Its ta ts own plant and Steinmetz went to the Lynn Mass Maea works of the General Electric company In Dt January 1893 he was transferred to the Schenectady works and has since that time made Schenectady his home In 1912 he was wan appointed r president of the board of of Schenectady and In tn 1118 was elected president of the com common mon council of ot that city on oa the So So- So So ticket He Ue never Dever married Dr served lof tor many manT terme term as us the president of national and International societies connected connected connect connect- ed d with willi the electrical Industry Harvard honored him with the degree de- de derree grea rree of master muter of art arts Arta and Union cOllege m made md de him a doctor of philosophy Since Bine 1913 1313 he had served Union college as professor of electrical engineering eng and elec elec- elec WRITES WHITES BOOKS nOOKS Books written by Include the following Theory and C Calculation Calculation lation of Alternating Current Phe- Phe PhenOmena Phenomena Phe Phenomena 1897 I Theoretical Theoretic Ele- Ele Element Element Ele Element ment of Electrical Engineering 1901 1801 Theory and Calculation of Transient Electric phenomena and O Oscillations 1909 l i General L Lectures on Electrical Engineer Engineer- ing Engineering 1908 1808 Radiation Light and Illumination 1909 1908 Engineer ing Mathematics 1311 1911 Elec trio Discharges Waves and Im- Im Impulses Im Impulses pul pulses e 1911 ion America and the New Epoch 1916 Theory and andI I Calculation of Electric CirCUitS 1917 1911 Theory and Calculation C of Electrical Apparatus 1917 Ho He also wrote numerous papers on mathematical and electrical engin engineering coring subjects Dr s special field In which ho he was most moat expert Included method of I AI-I al- al alternating al alternating current calculations and transient phenomena |