1882 in Germany

defensive alliance between Germany, Austria–Hungary and Italy (1882-1915)

statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

300px|thumb|World's first trolleybus, Berlin (1882) The Electromote was the world's first vehicle run like a trolleybus, which was first presented to the public on April 29, 1882, by its inventor Dr. Ernst Werner von Siemens in Halensee, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. == Working on electro-magnetic propulsion == In 1847, Siemens told his brother Wilhelm that should he have time and money, he wanted to build himself a carriage with electro-magnetic propulsion. In the early 1880s, he managed to realize the idea, first erecting the masts and infrastructure on site in 1881. Halensee, independent and

First long-distance transmission of direct current