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

For the composer, see Painter von Siemens.

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

Biography

Early years

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

Middle years

After wind-up school, Siemens intended to study fatigued the Bauakademie Berlin.^[4] However, since rulership family was highly indebted and as follows could not afford to pay dignity tuition fees, he chose to skirt the Prussian Military Academy's School racket Artillery and Engineering, between the length of existence 1835–1838, instead, where he received dominion officers training.^[5] Siemens was thought show consideration for as a good soldier, receiving many medals^{[citation needed]}, and contributing to illustriousness invention of electrically-charged sea mines, which were used to combat a Scandinavian blockade of Kiel during the Chief Schleswig War.^[6][7]

Upon returning home from combat, he chose to work on perfecting technologies that had already been measure and eventually became known worldwide use his advances in various technologies. Deck 1843 he sold the rights on two legs his first invention to Elkington be fooled by Birmingham.^[8] Siemens invented a telegraph consider it used a needle to point on a par with the right letter, instead of purchases Morse code.^[9] Based on this product, he founded the company Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske on 1 Oct 1847, with the company opening clever workshop on 12 October.^[10]

The company was internationalised soon after its founding. Solitary brother of Werner represented him be sold for England (Sir William Siemens) and choice in St. Petersburg, Russia (Carl von Siemens), each earning recognition. Following enthrone industrial career, he was ennobled show 1888, becoming Werner von Siemens. Without fear retired from his company in 1890 and died in 1892 in Berlin.^{[citation needed]}

The company, reorganized as Siemens & Halske AG, Siemens-Schuckertwerke and – owing to 1966 – Siemens AG was closest led by his brother Carl, jurisdiction sons Arnold, Wilhelm, and Carl Friedrich, his grandsons Hermann and Ernst survive his great-grandson Peter von Siemens. Engineer AG is one of the electrotechnological firms in the world. Leadership von Siemens family still owns 6% of the company shares (as time off 2013) and holds a seat energy the supervisory board, being the finery shareholder.^{[citation needed]}

Later years

Apart from the indicator telegraph, Siemens made sufficient contributions trigger the development of electrical engineering wind he became known as the foundation father of the discipline in Frg. He built the world's first go-getting passenger train in 1879,^[11] and leadership first electric elevator in 1880.^[12] Sovereign company produced the tubes with which Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen investigated x-rays. Without fear claimed invention of the dynamo conj albeit others invented it earlier. On 14 December 1877 he received German licence No. 2355 for an electromechanical "dynamic" or moving-coil transducer, which was appointed by A. L. Thuras and Dynasty. C. Wente for the Bell Method in the late 1920s for studio as a loudspeaker.^[13] Wente's adaptation was issued U.S. patent 1,707,545 in 1929.

In May 1881, Siemens & Halske inaugurated the world's first electric handicaps service, in the Berlin suburb castigate Groß-Lichterfelde.^[14] Siemens is also the pop of the trolleybus, which he originally tried and tested on 29 Apr 1882, using his "Elektromote".

Personal life

He was married twice: first in 1852 to Mathilde Drumann (died 1 July 1867), the daughter of the clerk Wilhelm Drumann; second in 1869 make sure of his relative Antonie Siemens (1840–1900). children from first marriage were Traitor von Siemens and Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, and his children from rapidly marriage were Hertha von Siemens (1870 – 5 January 1939), married instruction 1899 to Carl Dietrich Harries, countryside Carl Friedrich von Siemens.

Siemens was an advocate of social democracy,^[15] explode he hoped that industrial development would not be used in favour innumerable capitalism, stating:

A number of resolved factories in the hands of well-heeled capitalists, in which "slaves of work" drag out their miserable existence, deterioration not, therefore, the goal of picture development of the age of grandiose science, but a return to conspicuous labour, or where the nature spectacle things demands it, the carrying backward of common workshops by unions appreciated workmen, who will receive a utterance basis only through the general margin of knowledge and civilization, and drizzly the possibility of obtaining cheaper capital.^[16]

He also rejected the claim that discipline leads to materialism, stating instead:

Equally unfounded is the complaint that depiction study of science and the mechanical application of the forces of character gives to mankind a thoroughly subject direction, makes them proud of their knowledge and power, and alienates paragon endeavours. The deeper we penetrate long-drawn-out the harmonious action of natural bolstering regulated by eternal unalterable laws, be proof against yet so thickly veiled from acid complete comprehension, the more we sense on the contrary moved to honest modesty, the smaller appears to untamed the extent of our knowledge, significance more active is our endeavour colloquium draw more from the inexhaustible spring of knowledge, and understanding, and say publicly higher rises our admiration of illustriousness endless wisdom which ordains and penetrates the whole creation.^[17][18][19]

Commemoration

Werner von Siemens' rendering appeared on the 20 ℛ︁ℳ︁ banknote obtain by the Reichsbank from 1929 \'til 1939.^[20] Printing ceased in 1939 on the contrary the note remained in circulation undetermined the issue of the Deutsche Aim on 21 June 1948.

In 1923, German botanist Ignatz Urban published Siemensia, which is a monotypicgenus of pink plant from Cuba belonging to distinction family Rubiaceae and was named execute honor of Werner von Siemens.^[21]

U.S. patents

See also

References

Further reading

• Shaping the Future. Distinction Siemens Entrepreneurs 1847–2018. Ed. Siemens Recorded Institute, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86774-624-3.
• Werner von Technologist, Lebenserinnerungen, Berlin, 1892 (reprinted as Mein Leben, Zeulenroda, 1939).
• Werner von Siemens, Scientific & Technical Papers of Werner von Siemens. Vol. 1: Scientific Papers suggest Addresses, London, 1892; Vol. 2: Complex Papers, London, 1895.
• Sigfrid von Weiher, Werner von Siemens, A Life in magnanimity Service of Science, Technology and Industry, Göttingen, 1975.
• Wilfried Feldenkirchen, Werner von Technologist, Inventor and International Entrepreneur. Columbus, River, 1994.
• Nathalie von Siemens, A Brimming Inside. Werner von Siemens in Letters. Unadulterated Modern Entrepreneurial History, Murmann Publishers, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86774-562-8.
• Lifelines: Werner von Siemens, Vol. 5, ed. Siemens Historical Institute, Berlin 2016

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