Kathy Loves Physics & History | Charles Proteus Steinmetz: A Fun Scientific Biography (Part 1: 1865-1894) @Kathy_Loves_Physics | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
How and why Charles Proteus Steinmetz came to America, created his theory of hysteresis, the first 3-phase system in the US, and phasors, all before he became the "Wizard of Schenectady."
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Union College "Phasors" Movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ddmM3EAzwY
List of Steinmetz's photos (New York Heritage Steinmetz Digital Collection):
https://nyheritage.org/organizations/steinmetz-digital-collection-schenectady
As usual, a big thank you to the fabulous Kim Nalley for singing "electricity" and some background music. www.kimnalley.com
How and why Charles Proteus Steinmetz came to America, created his theory of hysteresis, the first 3-phase system in the US, and phasors, all before he became the "Wizard of Schenectady."
Links:
My mailing list:
https://kathylovesphysics.ck.page/welcome
My Patreon Page:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=15291200
Union College "Phasors" Movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ddmM3EAzwY
List of Steinmetz's photos (New York Heritage Steinmetz Digital Collection):
https://nyheritage.org/organizations/steinmetz-digital-collection-schenectady
As usual, a big thank you to the fabulous Kim Nalley for singing "electricity" and some background music. www.kimnalley.com
![Joseph Fraunhofer Biography: The Father of Modern Astronomy [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d0cjG1UdqKo/hqdefault.jpg "Joseph Fraunhofer Biography: The Father of Modern Astronomy [CC]
How did Joseph Fraunhofer, a poor glassmaker, get saved from poverty by a prince and then discover spectroscopy (Fraunhofer lines), single slit diffraction AND the diffraction grating? I use primary sources to discover the background and the physics of this epoch making discovery.
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The music is from the fabulous Kim Nalley and find her at kimnalley.com
Fraunhofers work is translated and found in Prismatic and Diffraction Spectra, Memoirs (1899)
The date of the accident and the death of his family members is from Memoir of the life of Joseph Fraunhofer found in The Franklin Institute Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 8 (1829) Elsevier p. 97
Wollaston, W A Method of examining refractive and dispersive Powers, by prismatic Reflection (June 24, 1802) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Vol. 92 p. 378
Also, check out:
Jackson, Myles Spectrum of Belief (2000) p. 1-5
King, H The History of the Telescope (2003) p. 177-8
Band, J. C. D. Lines of Light (2017)")
