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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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President
of
the
British
Association
in
1882,
and
knighted
in
1883,
Siemens
was
a
member
of
numerous
learned
societies
both
at
home
and
abroad.
In
1854
he
became
a
Member
of
the
Institution
of
Civil
Engineers;
and
in
1862
he
was
elected
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society.
He
was
twice
President
of
the
Society
of
Telegraph
Engineers
and
the
Institution
of
Mechanical
Engineers,
besides
being
a
Member
of
Council
of
the
Institution
of
Civil
Engineers,
and
a
Vice-President
of
the
Royal
Institution.
The
Society
of
Arts,
as
we
have
already
seen,
was
the
first
to
honour
him
in
the
country
of
his
adoption,
by
awarding
him
a
gold
medal
for
his
regenerative
condenser
in
1850;
and
in
1883
he
became
its
chairman.
Many
honours
were
conferred
upon
him
in
the
course
of
his
career--the
Telford
prize
in
1853,
gold
medals
at
the
various
great
Exhibitions,
including
that
of
Paris
in
1881,
and
a
GRAND
PRIX
at
the
earlier
Paris
Exhibition
of
1867
for
his
regenerative
furnace.
In
1874
he
received
the
Royal
Albert
Medal
for
his
researches
on
heat,
and
in
1875
the
Bessemer
medal
of
the
Iron
and
Steel
Institute.
Moreover,
a
few
days
before
his
death,
the
Council
of
the
Institution
of
Civil
Engineers
awarded
him
the
Howard
Quinquennial
prize
for
his
improvements
in
the
manufacture
of
iron
and
steel.
At
the
request
of
his
widow,
it
took
the
form
of
a
bronze
copy
of
the
'Mourners,'
a
piece
of
statuary
by
J.
G.
Lough,
originally
exhibited
at
the
Great
Exhibition
of
1851,
in
the
Crystal
Palace.
In
1869
the
University
of
Oxford
conferred
upon
him
the
high
distinction
of
D.C.L.
(Doctor
of
Civil
Law);
and
besides
being
a
member
of
several
foreign
societies,
he
was
a
Dignitario
of
the
Brazilian
Order
of
the
Rose,
and
Chevalier
of
the
Legion
of
Honour.
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