The Tower of Light - symbol of a new era in lightning - Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, 1893.
Power station for the Intramural Railway - Columbian Exposition, Chicago,IL, 1893.
Schenectady Works in 1897.
Generator room of the Manhattan Elevated Railway, 1900.
When Steinmetz was elected President of the Board of Education, there simply were not enough schools for the children. As a result of his efforts, eight new schools were built including Central Park (below), and extensive additions were made to four others.
The Elizabethan style building was home for Steinmetz and his adopted family.
Generator room of Power House No.2 on the American side of Niagara Falls, 1919.
Radio Station WGY, Schenectady, one of the first in the country, 1922.
The staff of the new Research Laboratory - (from left) Charles P. Steinmetz, John T.H. Dempster and Willis R. Whitney, Director, 1900.
Guglielmo Marconi "Father of the Wireless" (right) visits the Research Laboratory - with Whitney (left), Langmuir (center), 1917.
Artificial lightning generator being tested by Steinmetz. At his right is Joseph LeRoy Hayden, his adopted son, and N.A. Lougee, an assisting engineer, 1922.