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1880:
The Birth of Leonhard Weiss
Leonhard Weiss, the entrepreneur, was born on July 19,
1880 in Haistersbach. He was involved with building even
in his early years and accompanied his father to railway
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First
Telephone in Operation
The German Imperial Postal Service puts the first telephone
into operation in 1880. The first telephone device that
was capable of reproducing language in a comprehensible
form was developed by Alexander Graham Bell together with
Charles Summer Tainter in 1880. The "photophone"
- a device which (by means of a selenium cell) can be
used to telephone on a light ray. However, it only functioned
outdoors where there was no obstacle to the light ray
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1900:
The Founding Year
Leonhard Weiss ventured into self-employment in
1900. He was awarded the construction of the Aalen - Neresheim
- Ballmertshofen track section of the West German Railroad
Company (Westdeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft) in a draw.
This construction site laid the foundation for the company
that exists today. It was there that Leonhard Weiss proved,
as attested by a contemporary evaluation, that he was
an industrious, prudent and irreproachable entrepreneur.
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The
First Zeppelin Flight
On July 2 Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin succeeds in getting
his airship LZ1 to take off from Lake Constance. It measures
128 metres in length with a diameter of 11 metres and
consists of a rigid aluminium frame made from hoops and
longitudinal beams.
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1905:
Working for the Royal Railroad
Leonhard Weiss acquired his knowledge as a volunteer among
the railroad pioneers in Munich after being trained in
civil engineering in Coburg.
In 1905 he took over excavation work for the gas supply
and local water pipelines in Oberessingen as well as the
ditching and road construction for the Royal Railway Authority
in Reutlingen.
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200
Kilometres Per Hour
On October 6, 1903 a railway car belonging to the Siemens
Company reached a speed of over 200 km/h for the first
time ever. In the course of further tests two other railway
cars driven by three-phase current - 10,000 volts, 55
Hertz - even reach just under 210 km/h.
Exhibition of the "Wild Ones"
At the Autumn Salon in Paris the painters Henri
Matisse, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck exhibit
their current works. Characteristic of their expressive
styles is the emphasis placed on powerful, pure colours
together with an accentuation of contours.
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1912:
First Work for Goeppingen
Leonhard Weiss carried out his first work for the
municipality of Goeppingen in 1912 and 1913. This included
excavation and levelling work for extending the cemetery,
several newly constructed roads in Reusch district and
the excavation work for the overpass for the Sauerbrunnenstrasse
and Ulmer Strasse on behalf of the Goeppingen Royal Railway
Construction Department. |
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Titanic
Rams an Iceberg
One quarter of an hour before midnight a dull jolt shakes
the Titanic, the largest passenger steamship in the world.
The bow of the 269 metre long luxury steamship rammed
an iceberg. It tears a 90 metre long hole from the forecastle
to the midsection. At 2:20 a.m. the Titanic sinks and
1,513 people lose their lives. |
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1921:
Purchase of the Company Premises
The close relationship to Goeppingen was underscored
by the purchase of the company premises in 1921. This
picture shows Alois Wieland, driver and roller operator
waiting in front of the former company headquarters at
Karlstrasse, Goeppingen in order to depart with Leonhard
Weiss.
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The Einstein Tower
From 1919-1921 Erich Mendelson built the Einstein Tower.
It was intended, on the one hand, to function as a symbol
of Einstein's theory of relativity and, on the other,
to serve as a laboratory for his assistants.
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