Wikipedia (Charles Proteus Steinmetz), 2026-10-08

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz (raw wikitext fetched by script, research/pages/wiki-steinmetz.txt). Secondary source; used as a bibliography and pointer only.

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• Works list with DOIs, including papers not in the project folder that bear on the claims: "On the Law of Hysteresis" (Trans. AIEE 1892); "Lightning Phenomena in Electric Circuits" (Proc. AIEE 1907); "The General Equations of the Electric Circuit" (Proc. AIEE 1908, pp.1231-1305) and part III (Trans. AIEE 1919); Hayden and Steinmetz, "Disruptive Strength with Transient Voltages" (1910); "Instability of Electric Circuits" (1914); "Outline of Theory of Impulse Currents" (1916); "The Oxide Film Lightning Arrester" (1918); "Condenser Discharges Through a General Gas Circuit" (J. AIEE 1922); Hayden and Steinmetz "High-Voltage Insulation" (1923); "Frequency Conversion by Third Class Conductor and Mechanism of the Arcing Ground and Other Cumulative Surges" (Trans. AIEE 1923, pp.470-477); "Cable Charge and Discharge" (1923); "Overdamped Condenser Oscillations" (1924); "The Natural Period of a Transmission Line and the Frequency of Lightning Discharge Therefrom" (Electrical World 1898, link to tuks.nl); Four Lectures on Relativity and Space (1923).
• Patents: "over 200"; listed examples include US 1230615 "Protective device" and US 1025932 "Means for producing light".
• Lightning: "His systematic experiments resulted in the first laboratory-created 'man-made lightning'", nickname "Forger of Thunderbolts" (cites Hammond 1924 biography).
• Biographies: J. W. Hammond, Charles Proteus Steinmetz: A Biography (1924); R. R. Kline, Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist (Johns Hopkins, 1992); S. Garlin (1977, Steinmetz-Lenin correspondence); S. A. Lavine (1955).
• Archives named: Union College Schaffer Library Steinmetz papers; Schenectady County Historical Society finding aid.

Result: positive (as a pointer to primary works).