Steinmetz before General Electric

Electrical Pioneer C.P. Steinmetz's life before joining GE - interview with GE history expert George Wise. Steinmetz was a mathematician who studied in Breslau (Wroclaw) and Switzerland. He arrived in the US as an immigrant and worked for Rudolph Eickmeyer. Steinmetz became part of the small Electrical Engineering scene of the 1880's. He became famous for his paper on hysteresis. Eickmeyer's company was working with elevator AC motors, and electric railway motors. Steinmetz later went on with Elihu Thomson to design the AC generators and transmission systems that are still used today.

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