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Definition of Karl Wilhelm Siemens
1. Noun. Engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883).
Generic synonyms: Applied Scientist, Engineer, Technologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Karl Wilhelm Siemens
Literary usage of Karl Wilhelm Siemens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Chemical German by Eric Viele Greenfield (1918)
"Sir William Siemens (Karl Wilhelm Siemens), born in Germany in 1823; became a
British subject and spent most of his life in England; invented a regenerative ..."
2. The Progress of Scientific Chemistry in Our Own Times: With Biographical Notices by William Augustus Tilden (1913)
"Karl Wilhelm Siemens, Knt., FRS, born at Lenthe, near Hanover, 4th April 1822.
Came to England in 1842. Some years later founded the firm of Siemens ..."
3. The Progress of Scientific Chemistry in Our Own Times: With Biographical Notices by William Augustus Tilden (1913)
"Karl Wilhelm Siemens, Knt., FRS, born at Lenthe, near Hanover, 4th April 1822.
Came to England iu 1842. Some years later founded the firm of Siemens ..."
4. The Electrician (1883)
"This article does not afford an opportunity to give a fitting reference to Sir
Karl Wilhelm Siemens, perhaps better known by its anglicised form, ..."
5. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"His brother, Sir WILLIAM (Karl Wilhelm) SIEMENS, 1823-83, physicist, b. Lenthe,
settled, 1843, in London as a civil engineer, and founded a branch of the ..."
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