Siegfried Samuel Marcus (18 September 1831 – 1 July 1898) was a German

Germany

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-born Austria

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n inventor and automobile

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 pioneer.

Marcus was born in Malchin

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 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin

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. He moved to Vienna

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, the capital of the Austrian Empire

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, in 1852.

From 1856 to 1898 he worked as a self-employed manufacturer of scientific instruments in this city. He developed an interest in electricity

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 and as a lighting

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 technician too. His chief improvements include telegraph systems and ignition devices.

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