I whakatuhia a Siemens & Halske e Werner von Siemens me Johann Georg Halske i te 12 o Oketopa 1847. I runga i te waea waea, i whakamahia e raatau te ngira ki te tohu i te raupapa o nga reta, kaua ki te whakamahi i te waehere Morse. I whakatuwherahia e te kamupene, i huaina ko Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske, tana awheawhe tuatahi i te 12 o Oketopa. I te 1848, i hangaia e te kamupene te raina waea waea tawhiti tuatahi i Uropi; 500 km mai i Berlin ki Frankfurt am Main. I te 1850, ka tiimata te teina o te kaiwhakaara, a Carl Wilhelm Siemens, i muri mai ko Sir William Siemens, ki te tohu i te kamupene i Ranana. I te 1850s, i uru te kamupene ki te hanga whatunga waea tawhiti-roa i Russia. I te 1855, i whakatuwherahia tetahi atu kamupene e Carl von Siemens, a Heinrich von Siemens, i St. Petersburg, i St. Petersburg. I te 1867, i whakatuwherahia te raina waea tohu tohu Indo-European i London.
Ko te 1855