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Heroes of the Telegraph
·
John Munro
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CHAPTER
V.
CHARLES
WILLIAM
SIEMENS.
Charles
William
Siemens
was
born
on
April
4,
1823,
at
the
little
village
of
Lenthe,
about
eight
miles
from
Hanover,
where
his
father,
Mr.
Christian
Ferdinand
Siemens,
was
'Domanen-pachter,'
and
farmed
an
estate
belonging
to
the
Crown.
His
mother
was
Eleonore
Deichmann,
a
lady
of
noble
disposition,
and
William,
or
Carl
Wilhelm,
was
the
fourth
son
of
a
family
of
fourteen
children,
several
of
whom
have
distinguished
themselves
in
scientific
pursuits.
Of
these,
Ernst
Werner
Siemens,
the
fourth
child,
and
now
the
famous
electrician
of
Berlin,
was
associated
with
William
in
many
of
his
inventions;
Fritz,
the
ninth
child,
is
the
head
of
the
well-known
Dresden
glass
works;
and
Carl,
the
tenth
child,
is
chief
of
the
equally
well-known
electrical
works
at
St.
Petersburg.
Several
of
the
family
died
young;
others
remained
in
Germany;
but
the
enterprising
spirit,
natural
to
them,
led
most
of
the
sons
abroad--Walter,
the
twelfth
child,
dying
at
Tiflis
as
the
German
Consul
there,
and
Otto,
the
fourteenth
child,
also
dying
at
the
same
place.
It
would
be
difficult
to
find
a
more
remarkable
family
in
any
age
or
country.
Soon
after
the
birth
of
William,
Mr.
Siemens
removed
to
a
larger
estate
which
he
had
leased
at
Menzendorf,
near
Lubeck.
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