My Discoveries and Inventions

Werner von Siemens’s memoirs are a priceless find for researchers of the world’s scientific and technical history—engineers, designers, inventors, students and teachers of technical institutions, rationalizers, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all levels. The book will provide many pleasant hours to those interested in studying the biographies of large-scale personalities. Reading these memoirs, you can hear the voice of a representative of a great era that fused fiction and reality. A special interest in Werner von Siemens—the inventor of the electric locomotive, tram, trolleybus, electric elevator, and the builder of transcontinental telegraph lines—is also explained by the fact that it was he who laid the wires for the first electric telegraph between Russia’s largest cities. The perspective of foreign eyewitnesses on Nicholas-era Russia is captured in this edition as an exceptionally curious and valuable source. Modern people have firmly linked the surname Siemens with the name of a well-known German company. However, before the world saw and remembered the SIMENS logo, there was a turbulent life full of rises and falls—the very life reflected on the pages of this book.