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  1. 1865-1923. US engineer who formulated the
  2. Steinmetz hysteresis law in 1891, which
  3. describes the dissipation of energy that
  4. occurs when a system is subject to an
  5. alternating magnetic force. He worked on the
  6. design of alternating current transmission
  7. and from 1894 to his death served as
  8. consulting engineer to General Electric.
  9.