Quote of the day
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
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