im The alcoholometer ranks as one of the most when, after a month’s imprisonment, he was ingenious of Werner von Siemens’ inventions. pardoned, and begged that he might be allowed This apparatus registers with perfect accuracy- to use his cell to complete some experiments. the actual quantity of… … ner von Siemens had observed the then re- stowed upon him in 1888 by Frederick III. He was for a long time member of the Prussian markable phenomenon of electrostatic induc- Parliament and the vice-president of the Socie- tion, which exercised so retarding an influence ty for the Advancement of…
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