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Ernst Werner von Siemens, né le 13 décembre 1816 à Lenthe , mort le 6 décembre 1892 à Berlin, est un inventeur et industriel allemand, magnat du génie électrique. Avec Alfred Krupp et Friedrich Bayer, il est l'un des piliers de l’« époque des fondateurs ». Wikipedia  

✵ 13. décembre 1816 – 6. décembre 1892
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“A number of great factories in the hands of rich capitalists, in which "slaves of work" drag out their miserable existence, is not, therefore, the goal of the development of the age of natural science, but a return to individual labour, or where the nature of things demands it, the carrying on of common workshops by unions of workmen, who will receive a sound basis only through the general extension of knowledge and civilization, and through the possibility of obtaining cheaper capital.”

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D. Appleton., (1887). The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 30.

“Equally unfounded is the complaint that the study of science and the technical application of the forces of nature gives to mankind a thoroughly material direction, makes them proud of their knowledge and power, and alienates ideal endeavours. The deeper we penetrate into the harmonious action of natural forces regulated by eternal unalterable laws, and yet so thickly veiled from our complete comprehension, the more we feel on the contrary moved to humble modesty, the smaller appears to us the extent of our knowledge, the more active is our endeavour to draw more from the inexhaustible fountain of knowledge, and understanding, and the higher rises our admiration of the endless wisdom which ordains and penetrates the whole creation.”

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Bonnier Corporation. Popular Science https://books.google.com/books?id=tyoDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Apr 1887,Vol. 30, No. 46. [0161-7370]. pp. 814-820\
Werner von Siemens (1895). Scientific & technical papers of Werner von Siemens. J. Murray. p. 518