I had heard of this re Charles Steinmetz, but apparently it goes way back: "The earliest instance located by QI ((Quote Investigator)) appeared in “The Journal

I had heard of this re Charles Steinmetz, but apparently it goes way back: "The earliest instance located by QI ((Quote Investigator)) appeared in “The Journal of the Society of Estate Clerks of Works” of Winchester, England in 1908.": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/