At Union College a symposium was organized by Schaffer Library on "Gabriel Kron, the Man and His Work", held October 14, 1969.
Happ edited the contributed papers, which were published by Union College Press as Gabriel Kron and Systems Theory.
The brothers earned their living in New York City with odd jobs such as dish washer, bus boy, or working machines in garment factories.
He ran out of money when he reached Los Angeles, where he worked for the United States Electrical Manufacturing Company.
In Sydney he searched for a worthy successor, settling on Advanced Vector Analysis with Application to Mathematical Physics by the Australian C.E.
After his return Kron was employed as electrical engineer for brief periods with several companies the last of which was Warner Brothers in New York.
There he studied the mathematical tools of the general theory of relativity and conceived his method for applying tensor analysis to electrical power engineering.
This was described in a paper entitled "Non-Riemannian Dynamics of Rotating Electrical Machinery" printed in Romania and distributed to friends.
General Electric vice president Roy C. Muir "invited Gabe to join the staff of the Advanced Engineering Program under A.R.
Furthermore, Philip Franklin of Massachusetts Institute of Technology approved Kron's paper for publication in MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics, May 1934.
Alger explained, "Kron’s value was largely in the inspiration he gave to others and in distant objectives that seemed to business managers to be merely dreams."
As recalled by Keith Bowden,[4] "In the fifties, when Kron’s ideas were first introduced, controversy raged over their validity."
[5] Hoffman wrote the Introduction to the second edition of Kron's book, now titled Tensors for Circuits (1959), distributed by Dover Publications.
[8] Kron proved to be a versatile employee: He worked in the Large Steam Turbine Engineering Department (1942), contributed to the control of atomic reactor piles (1945), and collaborated with Simon Ramo, Selden Crary, and Leon K. Kirchmayer on power systems.