page_title: Siemens
section_title: 1847 to 1901
hierarchical_section_title: Siemens / History / 1847 to 1901
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Электровоз "Siemens" English: First electric locomotive, build in 1879 by German engineer Ernst Werner von Siemens. Deutsch: Elektr. Lokomotive von Siemens - Foto von 1879 Die Lokomotive wurde 1879 von Siemens &amp; Halske mit der Werksnummer 1 für den Braunkohlenbergbau „Stadtgrube“, Senftenberg gebaut. Neben der Gewerbeausstellung in Berlin wurde die Lok auch auf Ausstellungsbahnen in Brüssel, London, Kopenhagen und Moskau gezeigt und ist seit 2007 in der Aussenstelle Theresienhöhe im Deutschen Museum in München ausgestellt. Das gezeigte Bild zeigt einen Ausschnitt eines Originalfotos, das sich in meinem Besitz befindet. Es wurde im August 1879 anlässlich der Hochzeitsreise meiner Urgroßeltern August und Marie Kienitz beim Besuch der Gewerbeausstellung aufgenommen. Sieben Personen der vorderen Sitzreihe gehörten zur Hochzeitsgesellschaft, sie sind mir namentlich bekannt. Die Personen Nr. 1 bis 3 von links nach rechts sind Hermann Kienitz, Spediteur aus Görlitz (1818–1900), mein Ururgroßvater Marie Kienitz geb. Rehde (1857–1923), meine Urgroßmutter August Kienitz, Spediteur aus Görlitz (1851–1914) mein Urgroßvater, Die Personen 4 bis 7 sind Geschwister meiner Urgroßeltern bzw. Ehepartner der Geschwister, die ich auch namentlich kenne. Wer Interesse an weiteren Daten dazu hat, kann mich unter der Email-Adresse ongong@web.de erreichen. E. Wießner
context_page_description: Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.
  The principal divisions of the company are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities, which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 385,000 people worldwide and reported global revenue of around €87 billion in 2019 according to its earnings release.
context_section_description: Siemens & Halske was founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske on 1 October 1847. Based on the telegraph, their invention used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code. The company, then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske, opened its first workshop on 12 October.
  In 1848, the company built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe; 500 km from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main. In 1850, the founder's younger brother, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, later Sir William Siemens, started to represent the company in London. The London agency became a branch office in 1858. In the 1850s, the company was involved in building long distance telegraph networks in Russia. In 1855, a company branch headed by another brother, Carl Heinrich von Siemens, opened in St Petersburg, Russia. In 1867, Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European telegraph line stretching over 11,000 km from London to Calcutta.
  In 1867, Werner von Siemens described a dynamo without permanent magnets. A similar system was also independently invented by Charles Wheatstone, but Siemens became the first company to build such devices. In 1881, a Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill was used to power the world's first electric street lighting in the town of Godalming, United Kingdom. The company continued to grow and diversified into electric trains and light bulbs. In 1887, it opened its first office in Japan. In 1890, the founder retired and left the running of the company to his brother Carl and sons Arnold and Wilhelm.
caption: First electric locomotive, built in 1879 by company founder Werner von Siemens.
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