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    historical villages of |Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf were united in 1880 under the name Groß-Lichterfelde (Greater Lichterfelde). Lichterfelde was chosen as the...
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    The Gross Lichterfelde Tramway was the world's first commercially successful electric tram and first public electric tramway used for permanent service...
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    electric tram in Groß-Lichterfelde was built to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge and ran from today's suburban station, Lichterfelde Ost, to the cadet...
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    Archives. On 15 July 1884, the station was renamed Groß-Lichterfelde (“Greater Lichterfelde”) after Lichterfelde, Giesensdorf and their estates had been combined...
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    public electric tramway used for permanent service was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened in 1881. It was built...
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    Hauptkadettenanstalt (transl. Royal Prussian Main Cadet Institute) in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin, was the main military academy training officer corps...
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    Siemens & Halske built the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, the world's first electric streetcar line, in the southwestern Lichterfelde suburb of Berlin, followed...
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    by Fyodor Pirotsky in 1880. The first tramway was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened in 1881. It was built...
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    in Leipzig and Vienna in 1908 by the Guido-von-List-Gesellschaft (Gross-Lichterfelde). It was also known as GLB 1 of the Guido-List-Bücherei (GLB) series...
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    academy in Potsdam. He later transferred to the Hauptkadettenanstalt Groß Lichterfelde, where in his final year he belonged to the top class for gifted students...
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    Groß-Lichterfelde ("Greater Lichterfelde"), the new station was called Groß-Lichterfelde Süd (south), the old Lichterfelde station was renamed Groß-Lichterfelde...
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    the world's first electric tram service, in the Berlin suburb of Groß-Lichterfelde. Siemens is also the father of the trolleybus, which he initially...
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    November 1878 in Bremen. The marriages produced six children. He died at Groß-Lichterfelde in 1906 and is buried in an honorary grave in the Columbiadamm Cemetery...
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    Werner von Siemens' 1879 demonstration line in Berlin and by the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway of 1881, although none of these remain in operation. Operated...
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    request, in 1913, he was transferred to the Guards Rifle Battalion in Gross-Lichterfelde and served as the commander of the 3rd Company. In World War I he...
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    Karl Gottfried Martens; 6 March 1850 in Gammelin – 24 July 1914 in Groß-Lichterfelde) was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure...
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    Rammelsbergite, a nickel arsenide mineral, is named after him. He died at Gross Lichterfelde, southwest of Berlin Rammelsberg was the author of a series important...
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    capable. In March 1906, after six years in the cadet corps in Plön and Groß-Lichterfelde, he was commissioned into the Third Foot Guards Regiment (Garde zu...
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    the Ruhr district of Germany. In 1904, having graduated from the Gross Lichterfelde Cadet Academy, he joined the Imperial Army as a Fahnenjunker (officer...
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    continued his military education at the Imperial Military Academy at GroßLichterfelde in Berlin. Following the wish of his half-brother, King Vajiravudh...
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    in Berlin. The world's first electric tram line, Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Siemens...
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    officers. Ludendorff's education continued at the Hauptkadettenschule at Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin through to 1882. In 1885, Ludendorff was commissioned...
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    World's first commercially successful electric tram, the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany built by Werner von Siemens who...
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    successful commercial electric passenger train, the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, ran a year later in Lichterfelde. Long-distance trains travel between many cities...
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    a three-rail system). Other railway systems that used it were the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway and the Ungerer Tramway. The third rail is usually located...
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    electric tram line opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Werner von Siemens (see Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway and Berlin Straßenbahn)...
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    electric tram line opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Werner von Siemens (see Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway and Berlin Straßenbahn)...
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    Berlin. One of the world's first electric tram lines, Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Siemens...
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    military school when he was 11. After completing cadet training at the Groß-Lichterfelde Preußische Hauptkadettenanstalt in 1909, he joined an Uhlan cavalry...
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  • trolleybus and the creator of the world's first electric tram line, the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway. Hideo Shima (20 May 1901 - 18 March 1998), was the engineer...
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