"...he made a chalk mark.... Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace 16 windings.... They did, and the generator performed to perfection. Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice [for] $10,000." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/ …
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I've heard the story ascribed to Tesla, too.
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