[2][3][clarification needed] He was one of the sons of Constantine Hering, a pioneer of homeopathy in the United States.
[2] Upon his return to Philadelphia in 1886, he founded a consulting firm that he continued until his death, specializing in work on electric furnaces[1] and electrolysis, electrochemical and electrophysical processes.
In 1889, he participated in the World Exposition in Paris[7] on behalf of the American government and around 1890, he studied the possibility of making electric batteries, obtaining several patents on the subject.
[2] In 1902, together with E. F. Roeber, C. J. Reed, and J. W. Richards, he founded the American Electrochemical Society, of which he was president from 1906 to 1907.
[6] He was appointed officer of Public Education by the French government in 1889 and decorated a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1891.