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Werner von Siemens

Birthdate: 1816/12/13
Birthplace: Germany
Death date: 1892/12/06
Fields of study: Power

Biography

An example of an early Electric Streetlight

Honorary Member 1892

We all know that crime does not pay. Sometimes, however, the strangest things come out of time spent in prison. Such was the case with Werner von Siemens, the great scientist and entrepreneur who brought the world closer together through the development of large-scale telegraphy systems.

Doctor Siemens was born in Germany in 1816, the eldest of seven brothers, all of whom achieved distinction in the pursuit of science. His early life was spent in acquiring an education at the Gymnasium of Lubeck, and afterward in the study of military practice and theory.

In 1841, while Siemens was serving in the Prussian army as a means of paying for his engineering education, a fight broke out between two fellow officers, resulting in a challenge to a duel. Siemens stood in as a second and was subsequently arrested. Sentenced to a brief prison term, Siemens used the time to conduct chemistry e

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Werner von Siemens

German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)

For the composer, see Ernst von Siemens.

Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; SEEM-ənz;^[1]German:[ˈziːməns,-mɛns];^[2] 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892) was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He founded the electrical and telecommunications conglomerate Siemens and invented the electric tram, trolley bus, electric locomotive and electric elevator.

Biography

Early years

Ernst Werner Siemens was born in Lenthe,^[3] today part of Gehrden, near Hannover, in the Kingdom of Hanover in the German Confederation, the fourth child (of fourteen) of Christian Ferdinand Siemens (31 July 1787 – 16 January 1840) and wife Eleonore Deichmann (1792 – 8 July 1839). His father was a tenant farmer of the Siemens family, an old family of Goslar, documented since 1384. Carl Heinrich von Siemens and Carl Wilhelm Siemens were his brother

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Werner Von Siemens (181692) is best known in the English-speaking world as an inventor and pioneering electrical engineer. While previous studies have concentrated on his work as a scientist and technician, this biography, the first in a three-volume history of the Siemens corporation, focuses on his life as a businessman. Siemens was not only a successful inventor but also an entrepreneur with a broad and international business vision.

Siemens first achieved success in telegraphy. His firm, Siemens & Halske, built Germany's first important telegraph line and went on to build elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Siemens then turned his hand to electric technology. He was instrumental in creating the conditions for the advancement of electrical technology from the experimental stage into the modern electrical industry.

Siemens combined his engineering brilliance with entrepreneurial skills to develop a business whose activities at an early stage nearly spanned the globe. Siemens held a multinational vision almost from the start. The Siemens firms were unique in that, rather than startin