In what year was Charles Proteus Steinmetz born?
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz was born in 1865 in Breslau, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland). He was a German-American electrical engineer and mathematician who is considered one of the most important figures in the development of electrical engineering. Steinmetz's work on alternating current theory and power engineering was essential to the development of the modern electrical power grid.
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