The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-09
ERNEST WERNER vow s1EaIENs.
Tho Career of the Noted German EIsotri.
cInn-His Grcat inventions.
BERLIN, Dec. S.-The death OF DIR

BERLIN, Dec. S.-The death OF DR.. En-
nest Werner Won siemens, the world re-
nowned electrician OF this city, removes
one OF the most distinguished men of
the times.
lIDr. Ernest Werner Won Siemeps was
born December 13, 1916, at Lenthe, in
Hanover, and was the founder OF the
great electrical house OF Siemens &
Haiske in Berlin. When eighteen years
OF age he Joined the Prussian artillery,
and in 1871 was put in charge OF the ar
tillery workshops at Berlin. From an
early age he showed invention and scien-
titic tastes, and in lS4l, when only twen-
ty-fve years old, he took out patent
Tor electro.platinG and gliding. While
in charge OF the government artillery
works he devoted himself to experi-
menting and periecting the electric
Telegraph, and in this connection dis
covered the valuable insulating property
OF gatta-percha for underground and
submarine cables. In 1919 he laid at
Kiel the first submarine torpedo ex-
ploded by electricity. In 1919 he left
the army and the state altogether, and
founding the house OF Siemens " Halske
devoted his genius and energies to the
construction OF telegraphicandelect
apparatus OF all kinds. The growth OF
the factory in Berlin was so great that
branch houses were successfully estab-
lighed in St. Petersburg, London, Wen
ma, Tifis, and later in France.
The latest venture in extending his
works was the establishment in Chi
cago in February last at Wood street
and Blue Island avenue. And Dr.. Sic
mems took such great interest in the
plant there, and had such confidence in
it's success, that last summer he re-
marked to a friend from Chicago who
was visiting him that he would not be
surprised to see it outgrow the parent
plant in Berlin.
Siemens devised many useful forms OF
galvanometers and other electrical in
struments OF precision, and was one OF
the discoverers OF the principle OF the
seli.acting dynamo. He generally
worked with his two brothers, and in
1916, assisted by his younger brother,
Frederick, he Instituted experiments
looking to the more perfect combustion
OF fuel, ind the result was the regener-
ating gas furnace.
Among his mostimportant inventions
is the method OF determining the posi-
ton Of injuries in subterranean and
submarine lines; and OF examining in
sulated wires. Other OF his inventions
are the bathometer, n hydrostatic in
strument for measuring depths at sea;
the hydraulic brake, to prevent the re-
coil of artillery in ships OF war: aud q
promoter He also made valuable de-
examinations OF the electrical resistance
OF different substances, one OF them, the
resistance of specified column OF mer'
curry, being known as the Siemena unit.
He became a member oil the Berlin
Academy in 1874, and was 4 member Of
various other learned and scientific
bodies. He was the author OF numer.
GUS scientiticand technical dissertations,
which have been published in collected
form. In 1856 he gave 100000 marks
for the founding Of an imperial insti-
tute OF technology and physics, and in
1855 he was ennobied.
A friend in Chicago who knew and
honored him said last night: "Dr.
Siemens was remarkable combination
Of genius and business capacity"
In his line rs a scientific man he was
one OF the greatest and perhaps the
most original of all electricians in this
age. His work comprised everything
known in the field Of electricity aud all