BETTER THINGS (5 OF 6)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 7:1-10
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Better Things (5 of 6)
Life Under the Sun
Jeff Schreve
Ecclesiastes 7:1-10
If you have your Bible, please turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 7. I want to speak to you today on a message I've entitled, "Better Things."
Now, the year was somewhere around 1920, circa 1920. Auto maker, Henry Ford, had a problem in his Dearborn, Michigan plant, a large plant, and his big electrical generator went down. And Ford's electrical engineers couldn't fix it. They couldn't get it going again. And so, Henry Ford called General Electric. They had a man on their staff who was known as the "wizard of Schenectady, New York." He was a genius when it came to mathematics and electrical engineering. His name was Charlie Steinmetz. He was a little guy about 4' tall. He was a dwarf. He had a hunchback. But he had a mind that was just incredible. There's a picture of Charlie Steinmetz. He's the guy in the middle. And so, Ford called General Electric and said, "We need Charlie Steinmetz." And so, he came to the plant in Dearborn, Michigan and when he got there, he said, "I don't need any assistance, but what I need is a notebook, a note pad, a pencil, and a cot." And he slept there at the plant. And he listened to the machinery. And he wrote on his note pad, and he did his computations and his equations. And then, after two days, day and night, he asked for a ladder, and they brought him a ladder. And he climbed up onto the electrical generator and he put a chalk mark on the side of the generator, and he told Ford's engineers, "You need to take off this plate right here, and you need to replace sixteen of the windings in the field coil." Sixteen windings in the field coil. They looked at him like he was crazy, but they did it because he's the "wizard of Schenectady." They did it. They fired the thing up, and it ran like a top. Well, Henry Ford was pretty excited, "Hey, this guy fixed that!" He was excited until he got the bill. General Electric sent him a bill for $10,000 ...
Life Under the Sun
Jeff Schreve
Ecclesiastes 7:1-10
If you have your Bible, please turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 7. I want to speak to you today on a message I've entitled, "Better Things."
Now, the year was somewhere around 1920, circa 1920. Auto maker, Henry Ford, had a problem in his Dearborn, Michigan plant, a large plant, and his big electrical generator went down. And Ford's electrical engineers couldn't fix it. They couldn't get it going again. And so, Henry Ford called General Electric. They had a man on their staff who was known as the "wizard of Schenectady, New York." He was a genius when it came to mathematics and electrical engineering. His name was Charlie Steinmetz. He was a little guy about 4' tall. He was a dwarf. He had a hunchback. But he had a mind that was just incredible. There's a picture of Charlie Steinmetz. He's the guy in the middle. And so, Ford called General Electric and said, "We need Charlie Steinmetz." And so, he came to the plant in Dearborn, Michigan and when he got there, he said, "I don't need any assistance, but what I need is a notebook, a note pad, a pencil, and a cot." And he slept there at the plant. And he listened to the machinery. And he wrote on his note pad, and he did his computations and his equations. And then, after two days, day and night, he asked for a ladder, and they brought him a ladder. And he climbed up onto the electrical generator and he put a chalk mark on the side of the generator, and he told Ford's engineers, "You need to take off this plate right here, and you need to replace sixteen of the windings in the field coil." Sixteen windings in the field coil. They looked at him like he was crazy, but they did it because he's the "wizard of Schenectady." They did it. They fired the thing up, and it ran like a top. Well, Henry Ford was pretty excited, "Hey, this guy fixed that!" He was excited until he got the bill. General Electric sent him a bill for $10,000 ...
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