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Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens FRS FRSA (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman.
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.
Sir William Siemens (born April 4, 1823, Lenthe, Prussia [now in Germany]—died Nov. 19, 1883, London, Eng.) was a German-born English engineer and inventor, important in the development of the steel and telegraph industries.
SIR WILLIAM SIEMENS (1823-1883), christened Carl Wilhelm, an eminent inventor, engineer, and natural philosopher, was born at Lenthe in Hanover on 4th April 1823.
Sir William Siemens, orig. Karl Wilhelm Siemens, (born April 4, 1823, Lenthe, Prussia—died Nov. 19, 1883, London, Eng.), German-born British engineer and inventor. He immigrated to Britain in 1844.
Learn about the life and achievements of Carl Wilhelm Siemens, a German-born British inventor and entrepreneur who patented many industrial processes and held some 113 patents. He was a pioneer of superheated steam, electric arc furnace, open hearth steelmaking and cable-laying ship design.
Karl Wilhelm Siemens was born into a family of scientists and inventors at Lenthe, near Hanover, Prussia, on April 4, 1823. After his father's death in 1840, he was encouraged by his brother Ernst Werner von Siemens to enter technical school at Magdeburg.
