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Carl Wilhelm Siemens
Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. He was born on April 4, 1823, in the Kingdom of Hanover and died on 19 November 1883 at the age of 60 years in London.
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Born 4 April 1823 · Died 19 November 1883 · Q62377
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1962· 1 entry
“The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans”
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1883· 1 entry
Died 1883-11-19.
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1882· 1 entry
Which noted his work on the regenerative gas furnace and the production of steel
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1881· 1 entry
A Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill was used to power the world's first electric street lighting in the town of Godalming, United Kingdom
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1875· 1 entry
Won Bessemer Gold Medal (1875).
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1874· 3 entries
Won Albert Medal (1874).
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The Royal Society Bakeries Medal in 1871, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862
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Had a special cable ship built, according to his design, for Siemens Brothers, the CS Faraday
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1872· 1 entry
Sir William Siemens became the first president of the Society of Telegraph Engineers which became the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the forerunner of the Institution of Engineering and Technology [1]
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1871· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1871).
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To develop an electric thermometer to measure the temperature of the ocean at different depths
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1867· 1 entry
Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European (Calcutta to London) telegraph line
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1865· 1 entry
To create the Siemens-Martin process for open-hearth furnaces, revolutionising industrial steel manufacturing
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1862· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1862).
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1860· 1 entry
William Siemens constructed a remarkable gas engine (the same year the very first commercial engine was produced by Lenoir)
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1859· 1 entry
William Siemens devoted a great part of his time to electrical invention and research; and the number of telegraph apparatus of all sorts – telegraph cables, land lines, and their accessories – which have emanated from t
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1855· 1 entry
A company branch headed by another brother, Carl Heinrich von Siemens, opened in St Petersburg, Russia
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1850· 2 entries
Acknowledged the value of the principle, by awarding Siemens a gold medal for his regenerative condenser
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Established the London sales office of Siemens & Halske, the engineering company producing telegraphs, which his brother Werner had founded in 1847 at Berlin
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1847· 2 entries
Published a paper in Liebig's Annalen der Chemie on the 'Mercaptan of Selenium,' his mind was busy with the new ideas upon the nature of heat which were promulgated by Carnot, Clapeyron, Joule, Clausius, Mayer, Thomso
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At the factory of John Hick, of Bolton, an engine of four horse-power, having a condenser provided with regenerators, and using superheated steam
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1823· 2 entries
In the Kingdom of Hanover and died on 19 November 1883 at the age of 60 years in London
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Born 1823-04-04.
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