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Show SIEIIEIZ CALLED FOLLOWING TOUR ELECTRICAL WIZARD DIES UNEXPECTEDLY UN-EXPECTEDLY AT HOME IN NEW YORK Chief Expert For General Electric Company Regarded as One of Greatest Electricians of World Schenectady, N. Y Charles . Steinmetz, well known electrical wizard, wiz-ard, died at 8 :30 Friday morning. Steinmetz has been under the care of a physician for about two weeks and his death was as sudden as It was unexpected. He made a six weeks' lecture tour and returned to his home here ex. bausted. His physicians ordered him to bed and refused to permit visitors to see him. Last Monday is was announced he was steadily improving. Friday morning, according to reports re-ports from the death chamber at his home he told Lis nurse a minute or so before he died, that he was feeling Lne. Without warning or sign he turned over in bed nnd died. Steinmetz was born in Germany and was one of the world's greatest electrical engineers as well as a ranking rank-ing mathetmatlcian. He never married. lr. Steinmetz birthplace was Bras-lau, Bras-lau, Germany. He was horn April '.i, si;",. He came to America twenty-four years ago. Steinmetz was very modest about bis achievements In the electrical world but was proud of his ability as a mathematician. He wrote a number of technical textbooks on electricity, most of which are considered invaluable In their six'dal fields. In T.U2 ho was given tho honorary degree of A. M. by Harvard and the following L'nlon university, where b was a professor of electricity, and It was there tho degree of 1'. H. B. was conferred upon him. |