Berlin
With the construction of a turbine factory for AEG in Berlin, architect Peter Behrens did away with the battlements, brick facades and turrets that had characterized industrial architecture until then.
Borsig
In 1837, August Borsig set up a workshop on Chausseestraße in Berlin. He assembled his first locomotive three years later, the first of many.
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Several metres of reconstructed tram tracks recall the world's first electric tram ride in the German capital, Berlin. Werner von Siemens stood at the cradle of that world first.
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