Werner von Siemens: 1816-1892

Johannes Bähr

doi:10.17104/9783406714177

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-3-406-71416-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-406-71417-7
Publisher: C.H.BECK Literatur - Sachbuch - Wissenschaft, München
Language: German
Pages: 575
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 7
Introduction No access Pages 8 - 13
1. A family with a bourgeois heritage No access
2. Idyllic childhood and troubled youth No access
3. School years No access
1. The young lieutenant No access
2. The tragedy of Menzendorf No access
3. Separate paths for the orphans No access
1. Initial experiments No access
2. “Invention speculation” No access
3. Legal guardian for three brothers No access
1. To bet it all No access
2. The first Siemens pointer telegraph No access
3. The founding of the company No access
1. In times of revolution and war No access
2. The first long-distance lines No access
3. Unsuccessful abroad No access
4. The “Nottebohm crisis” No access
1. The band of brothers No access
2. Achieving love through reason No access
3. Marriage and a move No access
4. Russia or France? No access
5. Crimean War boom No access
1. Mathilde’s illness No access
2. In search of new fields of business No access
3. Difficult beginnings in London No access
4. Mathilde’s death No access
1. “For a unified and powerful Germany” No access
2. A new love No access
3. The dynamo machine No access
4. To fade away or globalize No access
1. The Indo-European Telegraph Line No access
2. Private business and family matters No access
3. Transatlantic cables No access
4. Siemens Brothers & Co. Ltd. No access
1. The businessman and his principles No access
2. Lobbyist for patent protection No access
3. Family life with Antonie No access
4. New times: Telephones and electric lighting No access
5. The first electric railways No access
1. Challenged by the Edison system No access
2. Berlin versus London No access
3. The transition to a major enterprise No access
1. The next generation No access
2. A promoter of research No access
3. Ennobled against his will No access
4. The final years No access
Focused and determined in a time of change – a summary No access Pages 426 - 437
1. Notes No access
2. Primary sources and bibliography No access
3. Image credits No access
4. Index of names No access
5. Index of places No access