Siemens Airfield Solutions Inc history

The company received its first major commission in 1848, when it contracted to build a telegraph link between Berlin and Frankfurt.

In 1857 Siemens & Halske helped develop the first successful deep sea telegraphic cable.

In the next decade, Siemens & Halske also developed and began manufacturing electrical lighting and power generating equipment after Werner Siemens discovered the dynamo electric principle in 1866.

In 1874 Siemens Brothers launched its own cable laying ship, the Faraday, which William Siemens co-designed.

In 1877 Alexander Graham Bell's new telephones reached Berlin for the first time.

In 1888 Werner Siemens was ennobled by the German kaiser for his achievements.

1892: Siemens & Halske build a power station at Erding in Bavaria and establish an American subsidiary, Siemens & Halske Electric Company, in Chicago.

In 1909 Siemens & Halske developed an automatic telephone exchange serving 2,500 customers in Munich.

Back home in Germany, Siemens & Halske financed and produced a railway network in suburban Berlin that began operation in 1928.

Siemens Brothers eventually re-established links to its old parent, and its general manager, Doctor Henry Wright, even became a member of the Siemens & Halske supervisory board in 1929.

ADB is named after Adrien de Becker, who incorporated it in 1937 in Belgium, according to the company’s official history.

Carl Friedrich went into partial retirement in 1940 and appointed Hermann von Siemens, Arnold's eldest son, to succeed him.

In 1945 Hermann von Siemens, who had also been a director of Deutsche Bank, was arrested by American occupation authorities and interned for two years.

In 1954 it established an American subsidiary in New York, Siemens Inc.

Hermann von Siemens retired in 1956 and was succeeded by Ernst von Siemens, Carl Friedrich's only son.

When the summer Olympic Games came to Munich in 1972, Siemens was its first official supplier of telecommunications and data processing equipment.

Despite a slower worldwide economy that curbed customer orders in some areas and forced the company to cut its workforce, sales grew to DM 20.7 billion and net profits to DM 606 million in 1976.

1978: Fortune magazine declares that Siemens has outpaced Westinghouse to become GE's primary competition.

The company took a big step into the United States market in 1979 when it bought Airport Lighting and Navigational Aids Co., or ALNACO, which was on the Far East Side.

Pokoj, 48, has been with ADB since 1987, starting as an engineer.

To help guide the new direction of Siemens, the company appointed Hermann Franz as chairman and Heinrich von Pierer as president and CEO. The appointment of Doctor Heinrich von Pierer as chief executive in 1992 reflected the need for a cultural change and the drive for higher profitability.

As of 1995, sales continued to increase and the declining profits for the company began to increase.

Rail systems, which lost $479 million in 1997, was Siemens' least vital division.

To shore up power generation and achieve critical cost-cutting, Siemens purchased the electricity generation arm of Westinghouse in August 1998.