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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Werner von Siemens
Born: December 13, 1816
Died: December 6, 1892 (aged 75)
Bio: Ernst Werner Siemens was a German inventor and industrialist. Siemens’s name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens. He was also the founder of the electrical and telecommunications company Siemens.
Known for:
- Personal recollections of Werner von Siemens
- Recollections
- Inventor and Entrepreneur: Recollections