Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a German mathematician and electrical engineer and a professor at Union College.. He fostered the development of the alternating current that enabled the expansion of the electricity industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (born Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz, April 9, 1865 – October 26, 1923) was a German-born 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 to design better electromagnetic apparatus equipment including especially electric motors for use in industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
“Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Yet we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.” [Charles Proteus Steinmetz]