I don't see any claim in that article that this is a myth. They merely discuss variants of the story. Fwiw, I have heard Steinmetz as the origin of this, a poss

I don't see any claim in that article that this is a myth. They merely discuss variants of the story. Fwiw, I have heard Steinmetz as the origin of this, a possibility they discuss in the article without explicitly confirming or refuting it.