People Database

Profiles for the human network around the work.

Profiles connect biography, dates, fields, organizations, projects, patents, documents, associated people, timelines, sources, and related discussions.

Profiles

Initial sample records.

1856-1943

Nikola Tesla

Inventor, electrical engineer

AC power, high-frequency systems, wireless concepts, motors, turbines.

Patents, lectures, Colorado Springs, Wardenclyffe

1846-1914

George Westinghouse

Engineer, industrialist

AC power adoption, Niagara Falls, power infrastructure, manufacturing.

AC systems, Niagara Falls, Tesla collaborators

1865-1923

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Electrical engineer, mathematician

AC analysis, transients, hysteresis, power-system engineering.

Electrical engineering, AC theory, historical context

1857-1924

Katharine Johnson

Editor, correspondent

Tesla correspondence, public communication, historical record context.

Letters, people network, source provenance