What matters is not whether you have invented something, but whether you have carried it out.
Es kommt nicht darauf an, ob man eine Sache erfunden hat, sondern ob man sie durchführt.
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Werner von Siemens
Born in 1816 in Germany, Werner von Siemens was an electrical engineer and industrialist who established his reputation through improvements to the pointer telegraph. In 1847 he co-founded Siemens & Halske with his brothers and created industrial infrastructure across telegraphy, electric power, and railways. He invented the electric tram, trolleybus, and electric elevator, and his self-exciting dynamo laid the foundations of the modern electric-power era. The SI unit of conductance bears his name.
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