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. A similar system was also independently invented by Ányos Jedlik and Charles Wheatstone, but Siemens became the first company to build such devices. In 1867, Werner von Siemens described a dynamo without permanent magnets. įirst electric locomotive, built in 1879 by company founder Werner von Siemens. In 1867, Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European telegraph line stretching over 11,000 km from London to Calcutta. In 1855, a company branch headed by another brother, Carl Heinrich von Siemens, opened in St Petersburg, Russia.
In the 1850s, the company was involved in building long-distance telegraph networks in Russia. The London agency became a branch office in 1858. In 1850, the founder's younger brother, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, later Sir William Siemens, started to represent the company in London. In 1848, the company built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe 500 km from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main. The company, then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske, opened its first workshop on 12 October. Based on the telegraph, their invention used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code. Siemens & Halske was founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske on 1 October 1847. Werner von Siemens, co-founder of Siemens & Halske. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 303,000 people worldwide and reported global revenue of around €62 billion in 2021 according to its earnings release. The corporation is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. The corporation is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the corporation's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The principal divisions of the corporation are Industry, Energy, Healthcare ( Siemens Healthineers), and Infrastructure & Cities, which represent the main activities of the corporation. Siemens AG ( German pronunciation: or ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad.
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