Old science — highly modern

Since ancient times, people have known phenomena that we now call electricity. Everyone knows the experiment with the rubber rod and the cat skin to generate static electricity from school. Since the 18th century, first for the amusement of upscale circles, and since about the middle of the 19th century, electricity has also been used practically. Because with the discovery of the electrodynamic principle by Werner von Siemens, it was possible to produce electrical energy in large quantities.

Without electrical engineering, today's world would be unthinkable

Today, everyone in the industrialized nations and in the emerging markets is surrounded by electrical engineering at all times. so much so that it is no longer even noticed. In practically all areas, life without electrical engineering would no longer be conceivable. Just imagine what it would be like if researchers and engineers like Alessandro Volta, André Marie Ampère or Werner von Siemens had not worked out the fundamentals of electrical engineering.

By the way, the capacitor was almost invented in Duisburg! In case its inventor Pieter van Musschenbroek had not left the old University of Duisburg for Leiden beforehand. Otherwise, the "Leiden bottle" would probably be called the "Duisburg bottle" today.