Siemens electric locomotive at the Berlin Trade Fair
Locomotora eléctrica de Siemens en la Exposición de Berlín
- Date
- 1879 · confidence high
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Credited to
- Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A small 2.2 kW locomotive with 150 V direct current drawn from a third rail hauled cars of visitors around the exhibition. It was the first practical public demonstration of electric passenger traction.
What it led to
- the Lichterfelde electric tram (1881)
- electric urban and metro traction
- overhead line and pantograph