biography
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Siemens, Sir (Charles) William
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originally Karl Wilhelm Siemens
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pronunciation:
[zeemens]
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| lived:
| (1823–83)
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| biography:
| Electrical engineer and metallurgist, born in Lenthe, NC Germany, the brother of Werner von Siemens. He studied at Göttingen University, and visited England in 1843 to introduce a process for electro-gilding invented by his brother. He subsequently settled there as an inventor himself, and made a fortune starting with his water meter (1851). He patented an open hearth furnace (1861), and from 1858, as managing partner of the London branch of his brother's telegraph manufacturing firm, Siemens & Halske, was responsible for the development of the first telegraph cable from Britain to America (1874). He became a British citizen in 1859. |
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