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Werner von Siemens

1816 - 1892

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Ernst Werner Siemens (von Siemens from 1888; English: SEEM-ənz; German: [ˈziːməns, -mɛns]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner von Siemens has received more than 758,314 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Werner von Siemens is the 21st most popular inventor (up from 26th in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Germany (up from 213th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Inventor.

Werner von Siemens is most famous for inventing the dynamo, which is an electric generator that produces electricity.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Werner von Siemens ranks 21 out of 426Before him are Nikolaus Otto, Louis Daguerre, George Stephenson, Rudolf Diesel, Nicéphore Niépce, and Abbas ibn Firnas. After him are Bartolomeo Cristofori, Samuel Colt, Ernő Rubik, Ismail al-Jazari, Karl Ferdinand Braun, and Antonio Meucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Werner von Siemens ranks 2Before him is Charlotte Brontë. After him are Carl Zeiss, Arthur de Gobineau, Eugène Edine Pottier, Maria Theresa of Austria, Paul Reuter, Ferdinand II of Portugal, Abbas I of Egypt, Carl Ludwig, Franz Sacher, and John Frederick Kensett. Among people deceased in 1892, Werner von Siemens ranks 1After him are Walt Whitman, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Bahá'u'lláh, Ernest Renan, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Thomas Cook, Rudolf von Jhering, John Couch Adams, and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner von Siemens ranks 212 out of 7,253Before him are Nelly Sachs (1891), Karl Liebknecht (1871), Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742), Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (980), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800), and Carl Ritter (1779). After him are Pope Clement II (1005), Edith Stein (1891), Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1956), Ludwig Erhard (1897), and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Werner von Siemens ranks 4Before him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Karl Benz (1844), and Nikolaus Otto (1832). After him are Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850), Konrad Zuse (1910), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Hans Lippershey (1570), Karl Drais (1785), Emile Berliner (1851), Adam Opel (1837), and Joseph Pilates (1883).