12 Immigrants Who Made American Technology Great

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1 Charles Steinmetz Sparks the Electrical Industry A brilliant engineer was almost turned away at Ellis Island Immigration officers tried to reject him because he was disabled They did not believe he could be a genius electrical engineering He was active in socialist politics The government of Poland did not trust socialists In 1889 Steinmetz emigrated to escape arrest for his activism Charles Steinmetz was born in 1865 in Poland In school Steinmetz studied math chemistry and Due to his disability Steinmetz stood just four feet tall He had a hump on his back and trouble walking Immigration officers judged him by his looks Steinmetz had to convince them that he was intelligent Finally he was allowed to enter the United States In New York City Steinmetz worked as an electrical engineer He developed a math equation that changed his industry Engineers designing electrical systems had trouble with magnetism Magnetism was part of electrical systems But it caused some loss of power Steinmetz’s math equation helped engineers figure out how much 4