E.W. Rice, General Manager of General Electric recalls meeting Steinmetz. “I shall never forget our first meeting at Eickemeyers workshop in Yonkers. I was startled and somewhat disappointed by the strange site of a small, frail body surmounted by a large head, with long hair hanging to the shoulders, clothed in an old cardigan jacket, cigar in mouth sitting cross-legged on a laboratory work table. My disappointment was but…