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The 1893 Columbia Exposition in Chicago brilliantly show- cased how electricity was on the verge of transforming daily life. That same year, John Boswell Whitehead, the alumnus who would become the first dean of Engineering at Johns Hopkins, was studying applied electricity, fascinated by his era’s powerful possibilities. The impetus to innovate, which propelled Engineering...