Carl Wilhelm Siemens
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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.
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, to Anne Gordon—the youngest daughter of Mr Joseph Gordon, Writer to the Signet,
Edinburgh, and sister of Mr Lewis Gordon, Professor of Engineering in the University of Glasgow—and became a naturalised British citizen.
He used to say that on 19 March of that year he took oath and allegiance to two ladies in one day—to The Queen and to his betrothed.
He was knighted—becoming Sir William—a few months before his death.
He died on the evening of Monday 19 November 1883 and was buried one week later in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
A glass window installed in Westminster Abbey in his honour commemorated him.
Lady Siemens died in 1902.
In the autumn of 1838 when William was fifteen years old, he began his studies to become an engineer.
He attended a hig...
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