The first English edition of the acclaimed biography of German industrialist Carl von Siemens ''Nature seems to have created me to undertake great things, for to this day, wherever I have gone, great things have always come about.'' Werner, Wilhelm, and Carl von Siemens. Three brothers who, in the middle of the 19th century, succeeded in building a global business empire out of a small telegraph company in Berlin. Martin Lutz has written the first ever biography of the youngest of the three, simultaneously providing a vivid history of the Siemens brand itself, a name which owes its reputation today to these early pioneers of globalization.