Werner Von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series) - Hardcover

Feldenkirchen, Wilfried

9780814206584: Werner Von Siemens: Inventor and International Entrepreneur (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814206581 ISBN 13: 9780814206584

Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr, 1994

Werner Von Siemens (181692) is best known in the English-speaking world as an inventor and pioneering electrical engineer. While previous studies have concentrated on his work as a scientist and technician, this biography, the first in a three-volume history of the Siemens corporation, focuses on his life as a businessman. Siemens was not only a successful inventor but also an entrepreneur with a broad and international business vision.

Siemens first achieved success in telegraphy. His firm, Siemens & Halske, built Germany's first important telegraph line and went on to build elsewhere in Europe and Asia. Siemens then turned his hand to electric technology. He was instrumental in creating the conditions for the advancement of electrical technology from the experimental stage into the modern electrical industry.

Siemens combined his engineering brilliance with entrepreneurial skills to develop a business whose activities at an early stage nearly spanned the globe. Siemens held a multinational vision almost from the start. The Siemens firms were unique in that, rather than starting small then slowly growing and branching out, they were from their inception international organizations.

The story of Siemens is a vital part of the history of industrialization in Europe.

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About the Author:

Wilfried Feldenkirchen is a professor of business history at Friedrich Alexander Universitat, the Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany. His doctoral thesis, "The Iron and Steel Industry in the Ruhr District," earned him the Maier-Leibnitz Prize, awarded by Germany's Federal Minister for Science and Research, and he received the Harvard School of Business's Newcomer Prize in 1988. He is the author of Siemens, 19181945.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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