In Popular Culture
Steinmetz is featured in John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy in one of the biographies. He also serves as a major character in Starling Lawrence's The Lightning Keeper.
His name is used several times during certain episodes of The Simpsons by industrialist Mr. Burns as an expletive ("Come on, Steinmetz, while we're still young!") whenever he feels people are taking longer than he would like.
Novelist John Ball grew up in Steinmetz's house. His parents were graduate students paid by GE to live with and take care of the man Ball called "Uncle Steinie". Ball used to tell Steinmetz stories to the Southern California Mystery Writers Association meetings.
Read more about this topic: Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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