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Carl Wilhelm Siemens
German-British engineer and businessman (1823–1883)
"Sir William Siemens" redirects here. For the lake freighter, see SS Sir William Siemens.
Sir Carl Wilhelm SiemensFRS FRSA (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman.
Biography
Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Hanover where his father, Christian Ferdinand Siemens (31 July 1787 – 16 January 1840), a tenant farmer, farmed an estate belonging to the Crown. The Siemens family is an old family of Goslar which has been documented since 1384. His mother was Eleonore Deichmann (1792–8 July 1839), and William, or Carl Wilhelm, was the fourth son of a family of fourteen children. Of his siblings, Ernst Werner Siemens, the fourth child, became a famous electrician and was associated with William in many of his inventions. He was also the brother of Carl Heinrich von Siemens and a cousin of Alexander Siemens.
On 23 July 1859, Siemens was married at St James's, Paddington,
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Archives Biographies: Sir William Siemens 1823-1883
Carl Wilhelm (later Sir Charles William) Siemens first came to England in 1843. His elder brother, Werner Siemens, had founded the Siemens engineering company and William planned to sell one of the Siemens patents. He appreciated the country so much that he made it his home in 1844 and founded the British branch of Siemens, which specialised first in glass production and then, in the early 1860s, telegraph cables.
The company was to be associated with the major developments in telecommunications during the end of the nineteenth century and advised the British Government on the formation of its international submarine cable network. William Siemens even designed a ship, the Faraday, which laid 60 000 km of cable throughout the world and is regarded as the prototype of the cable laying ship.
Siemens were not, however, contented with telegraphy and, in the early part of the twentieth century, tapped into the growing market for electric lighting and power.
When the Society of Telegraph Engineers was founded in 1871, William
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Carl Wilhelm (Sir Charles William) von Siemens (1823–83)
Carl Wilhelm Siemens invented many industrial processes and held some 113 patents. He was also a successful entrepreneur who spent most of his active life in his adopted country. He was born in Hanover, and studied at several German universities, before visiting England in 1843 to seek markets for an electro-plating process, already patented by his brother in Prussia.
In his early years in England he made experiments with superheated steam, for which he was awarded the gold medal of the Society of Arts in 1850. He was naturalized in Britain in 1859. In 1858 he established an English branch of his brother’s company Siemens & Halske in London, which subsequently employed more than 2000 people in a factory built in 1866 at Charlton, in the south of the city, which made telegraphic equipment. He patented the electric arc furnace, used in steelmaking and other metallurgical processes, in 1867. He designed the Faraday, the prototype of the cable-laying ship.
Many of his innovations derived from his experiments with heat, an
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