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Charles William Siemens, F.R.S., the celebrated engineer, who has gained a world-wide reputation through his researches on heat and electricity, his economical application of fuel, his metallurgical processes, and his scientific investigations, was born at Lenthe in Hanover, on the 4th of April, 1823. Savages silence yourself torrent. Young Siemens appears to have been determined to push his way forward. In 1841 his brother Werner obtained a patent in Prussia for electro-silvering and gilding; and in 1843 Charles William came to England to try and introduce the process. In his address on 'Science and Industry,' delivered before the Birmingham and Midland Institute in 1881. Who established an 'invention factory' at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey? Guglielmo Marconi B. Henry Bessemer C. Thomas Edison D. Charles William Siemens.
(b. Lenthe, near Hannover, Germany, 4 April 1823: d. London, England, 19 November 1883)
engineering.
The seventh son of Christian Ferdinand Siemens, a prosperous farmer, and Eleonore Deichmann, Siemens was naturalized as a British subject on 19 March 1859. He married Anne Gordon on 23 July of that year. Siemens was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (president, 1872), the Iron and Steel Institute (president, 1877), the Society of Telegraph Engineers (first president, 1872), the British Association (president, 18820, and the Royal Society of Arts (chairman, 1882) and a fellow of the Royal Society.
Having received a sound German technical education, Siemens went at age twenty to England and profitable promoted an electroplating invention of his older brother Werner (who in 1847 founded the German company of Siemens and Halske). After several years of indifferent success with other inventions, including regenerative steam engines, an engine governor, and a printing technique, he became agent in Britain for his brother’s telegraph equipment and later a partner in his subsidiary British company. During the same period (1850–1858) Siemens developed a highly successful meter for measuring water consumption. These activities, combined with his important invention (1861) of the regenerative gas furnace and its application to open-hearth steelmaking and other industrial; processes, made him independently wealthy before 1870.
In 1874 Siemens designed the cable ship Faraday and assisted in the laying of the first of several transatlantic cables that it completed. During the last fifteen years of his life he actively supported the development of the engineering profession and its societies and stimulated public interest in the conservation of fuel, the reduction of air pollution and the potential value of electric power in a wide variety of engineering applications.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Siemens’ writings are collected in The Scientific Works of C. William Siemens, Kt., E. F. Bamber, ed., 3 vols. (London, 1889).
A biography is William Pole. The Life of Sir William Siemens (London, 1888). See also H. T. Wood in Dictionary of National Biography, XVIII (Oxford, 1922), Many incidental references are in Georg Siemens, History of the House of Siemes, 2 vols. (Freiburg, 1957), and in a collection of his brother’s memoirs, Werner von Siemens, Inventor and Entreperneur (Clifton, N. J., 1966).
Robert A. Chipman
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Most widely held works about Charles William Siemens
- The creators of the age of steel by William T Jeans( Book )
- The life of Sir William Siemens by William Pole( Book )
- Wilhelm Siemens by William Pole( Book )
- Sir William Siemens : a man of vision( Book )
- Sir William Siemens als Erfinder und Forscher : Vortrag gehalten im deutschen Verein für Kunst und Wissenschaft zu London (German Athenaeum) am 22. Februar 1884 by Eugen Obach( Book )
- Siemens' dynamo-electric machine( Visual )
- Sir William Siemens 1823-1883 : eine Biografie by Wolfgang König( Book )
- A short story of Sir William Siemens by Dwight Goddard( Book )
- A collection of letters to Sir Charles William Siemens 1823-1883 by G. H Nelson( Book )
- The Siemens open hearth steel furnace by Basil Turner( Book )
- Sir William Siemens : thoughts and biographical reminiscences on the centenary of his death, the 19th November 1983 by Sigfrid von Weiher( Book )
- Sir William Siemans by Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart( Book )
- Sir Charles William Siemens. Stipple engraving by G.J. Stodart, 1884, after H. Van der Weyde by Henry Van der Weyde( Visual )
- Argument on behalf of remonstrants against the application for extension of letters patent to C.W. & F. Siemens, on regenerative furnaces : together with remonstrance, affidavits and copies of letters patent by W Bakewell( Book )
- Ueber eine Reproduction der Siemens'schen Quecksilbereinheit by Karl Strecker( Book )
- Victorian physicists and speed regulations : an encounter between science and technology by Otto Mayr( Book )
- by Joseph Dalton Hooker( )
- Sir Charles William Siemens, born April 4, 1823 died November 19, 1883 by William Thomson Kelvin( Book )
- [Sir Charles William Siemens, head-and-shoulders portrait facing front]( Visual )
- Sir Charles William Siemens. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield( Visual )
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Most widely held works by Charles William Siemens
The practical applications of electricity : a series of lectures delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers, session 1882-83 by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)( Book )
7 editions published in 1884 in English and held by 158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The progress of telegraphy / by W.H. Preece -- Telephones / by Sir F. Bramwell -- The electrical transmission and storage of power / by C.W. Siemens -- Some points in electric lighting / by J. Hopkinson -- Electricity applied to explosive purposes / by F.A. Abel -- Electrical units of measurement / by W. Thomson -- Index
7 editions published in 1884 in English and held by 158 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The progress of telegraphy / by W.H. Preece -- Telephones / by Sir F. Bramwell -- The electrical transmission and storage of power / by C.W. Siemens -- Some points in electric lighting / by J. Hopkinson -- Electricity applied to explosive purposes / by F.A. Abel -- Electrical units of measurement / by W. Thomson -- Index
On the conservation of solar energy; a collection of papers and discussions by Charles William Siemens( Book )
20 editions published between 1882 and 2017 in English and German and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
20 editions published between 1882 and 2017 in English and German and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of letters to Sir Charles William Siemens, 1823-1883 by English Electric Company Limited( Book )
7 editions published in 1953 in English and French and held by 102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1953 in English and French and held by 102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The scientific works of C. William Siemens .. A collection of papers and discussions by Charles William Siemens( Book )
8 editions published in 1889 in English and held by 69 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published in 1889 in English and held by 69 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Einige wissenschaftlich-technische Fragen der Gegenwart by Charles William Siemens( )
17 editions published between 1879 and 2013 in German and held by 66 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
17 editions published between 1879 and 2013 in German and held by 66 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Incandescent electric lights : with particular reference to the Edison lamps at the Paris exposition by Th Du Moncel( )
6 editions published in 1882 in English and held by 47 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published in 1882 in English and held by 47 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fuel; to which is appended the value of artificial fuels as compared with coal by Charles William Siemens( )
2 editions published in 1874 in English and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1874 in English and held by 46 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The scientific works, a collection of papers and discussions by Charles William Siemens( )
3 editions published in 1889 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1889 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A treatise on fuel by Arthur V Abbott( Book )
5 editions published between 1891 and 1904 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published between 1891 and 1904 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recent wonders in electricity, electric lighting, magnetism, telegraphy, telephony, etc., etc., including articles by Dr. Siemens, F.R.S., Count du Moncel and Prof. Thomson( Book )
2 editions published in 1883 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1883 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On smelting iron and steel by Charles William Siemens( Book )
4 editions published in 1873 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1873 in English and held by 22 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Le Gaz l'electricité comme agents de chauffage by Charles William Siemens( Book )
8 editions published between 1880 and 1881 in French and English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published between 1880 and 1881 in French and English and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Der Erfinderschutz und die Reform der Patentgesetze : amtlicher Bericht über den Internationalen Patent-Congress zur Erörterung der Frage des Patentschutzes by Karl Pieper( Book )
6 editions published in 1873 in German and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published in 1873 in German and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ueber Destillir-Apparate nebst Beschreibung der neuesten Construktion des Hohenheimer Dephlegmators; ein Programm ausgegeben bei Gelegenheit der Jahres-Prüfung an der Königlich Württemberg. Land- und forstwirthschaftlichen Akademie zu Hohenheim den 30. August 1850 by Charles William Siemens( )
2 editions published in 1850 in German and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1850 in German and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On some applications of electric energy to horticulture and agriculture ; and A contribution to the history of secondary batteries : papers read before Section A of the British Association, at the York Meeting, 1st and 5th September, 1881 by Charles William Siemens( )
2 editions published in 1881 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1881 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Electrical resistance thermometer and pyrometer by Charles William Siemens( Book )
5 editions published in 1875 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1875 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On fuel : a lecture delivered to the operative classes at Bradford on behalf of the British Association, 20th September, 1873 by Charles William Siemens( Book )
3 editions published in 1873 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1873 in English and held by 11 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Einige wissenschaftlich-technische Fragen der Gegenwart by Charles William Siemens( Book )
2 editions published in 1879 in German and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1879 in German and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The dynamo-electric current in its application to metallurgy, to horticulture, and to locomotion by Charles William Siemens( Book )
1 edition published in 1880 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1880 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On puddling iron by Charles William Siemens( Book )
5 editions published between 1868 and 1871 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published between 1868 and 1871 in English and held by 8 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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