14 Facts About Ernst Siemens

Ernst Werner Siemens was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist.

Ernst Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens.

Ernst Werner Siemens was born in Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Hannover, in the Kingdom of Hanover in the German Confederation, the fourth child of a tenant farmer of the Siemens family, an old family of Goslar, documented since 1384.

Ernst Siemens was thought of as a good soldier, receiving various medals, and inventing electrically-charged sea mines, which were used to combat a Danish blockade of Kiel.

Ernst Siemens invented a telegraph that used a needle to point to the right letter, instead of using Morse code.

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Ernst Siemens retired from his company in 1890 and died in 1892 in Berlin.

Ernst Siemens AG is one of the largest electrotechnological firms in the world.

Apart from the pointer telegraph, Ernst Siemens made sufficient contributions to the development of electrical engineering that he became known as the founding father of the discipline in Germany.

Ernst Siemens's company produced the tubes with which Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen investigated x-rays.

Ernst Siemens claimed invention of the dynamo although others invented it earlier.

Ernst Siemens is the father of the trolleybus, which he initially tried and tested on 29 April 1882, using his "Elektromote".

Ernst Siemens was married twice: first in 1852 to Mathilde Drumann, the daughter of the historian Wilhelm Drumann; second in 1869 to his relative Antonie Siemens .

Ernst Siemens was an advocate of social democracy, and he hoped that industrial development would not be used in favour of capitalism, stating:.

Ernst Siemens rejected the claim that science leads to materialism, stating instead:.