Great story but I had no idea who he was. Found on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
https://m.youtube.com/@KathyLovesPhysics/videos
Really took Tesla down a peg. (No, Tesla did not invent the 3-phase power system we use today. That was a Russian in Switzerland, Dolivo-Dobrovolsky.)