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'''1923 Obituary <ref>[[The Engineer 1923/11/02]]</ref> | '''1923 Obituary <ref>[[The Engineer 1923/11/02]]</ref> | ||
"The death of Dr. Steinmetz, the eminent electrical engineer, mathematician, and prolific writer and lecturer on electrical subjects, occurred last week at Schenectady. Dr Steinmetz studied at Breslau, Berlin, and at Zurich, but at the age of twenty-four he landed in America in the year 1889. The ship La Champagne arrived one Saturday afternoon and put the cabin passengers ashore, but on the account of the regulations that were then in force, the steerage passengers, among whom Steinmetz and his friend Asmussen were included, were kept on board for inspection until the following Monday. | |||
Steinmetz' first experiences in America were not happy. He could speak but little English, so little, | |||
in tact, that when asked by an official whether he knew the language, he could only reply, " A few." | |||
As Dr. Steinmetz often related, he did not possess the ten dollars necessary for a safe landing, and from | |||
his appearance it did not seem likely to the officials that he would ever be capable of earning such a sum if he was allowed to land...[[The Engineer 1923/11/02 | Read more here]]. | |||
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Dr. S. P. Steinmetz (c1862-1923), electrical engineer, mathematician and writer.
1923 Obituary [1]
"The death of Dr. Steinmetz, the eminent electrical engineer, mathematician, and prolific writer and lecturer on electrical subjects, occurred last week at Schenectady. Dr Steinmetz studied at Breslau, Berlin, and at Zurich, but at the age of twenty-four he landed in America in the year 1889. The ship La Champagne arrived one Saturday afternoon and put the cabin passengers ashore, but on the account of the regulations that were then in force, the steerage passengers, among whom Steinmetz and his friend Asmussen were included, were kept on board for inspection until the following Monday. Steinmetz' first experiences in America were not happy. He could speak but little English, so little, in tact, that when asked by an official whether he knew the language, he could only reply, " A few." As Dr. Steinmetz often related, he did not possess the ten dollars necessary for a safe landing, and from his appearance it did not seem likely to the officials that he would ever be capable of earning such a sum if he was allowed to land... Read more here.