ANTIQUE TOOL MEDICAL INSTRUMENT MADE IN GERMANY REINIGER GEBBERT SCHALL SIEMENS

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MUSEUM PIECE OF RGS MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FROM EARLY 1900s MADE IN GERMANY
RGS COMPANY WAS BOUGHT BY SIEMENS IN 1925.
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Traditionally, Siemens’ medical technology business had always stood a little in the shadow of the two core companies,
Siemens & Halske AG
and
Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG
. True,
Werner von Siemens
himself had experimented with a vast range of applications, and in 1878 he even invented the “Phonophor,” a telephone earpiece for the hard of hearing. But in comparison with massive projects like laying the first direct
transatlantic cable
or building power plants,
medical technology
had always remained something of a stepchild.
Yet considered on its own, the healthcare business was another example of Siemens’ strength. By1896, shortly after x-rays were discovered, the company had already put its own x-ray tubes on the market, and within the following decades it evolved into one of the sector’s heavyweights. This was the situation in 1925, when one of the company’s biggest competitors, Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall AG (RGS), was in trouble. Siemens healthcare managers made the most of the opportunity: they bought the troubled firm. The takeover and the integration process were a success. A joint marketing company was established in short order, and production activities like those for x-ray tubes were pooled in Rudolstadt, in Thuringia. The healthcare business reported rising profits year after year.
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