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Carl Wilhelm Siemens

1823 - 1883

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Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Wilhelm Siemens has received more than 198,402 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Wilhelm Siemens is the 234th most popular inventor (down from 203rd in 2019), the 2,797th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,391st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 234 out of 354Before him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Ottomar Anschütz, Elihu Thomson, Lucien Olivier, Artur Fischer, and Genrich Altshuller. After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas, Eugen Langen, Fritz von Opel, Léon Gaumont, David Schwarz, and James Dyson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 35Before him are Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Katsu Kaishū, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. After him are Imre Madách, Marietta Alboni, Sophie Adlersparre, Enrico Betti, Giuseppe Fiorelli, and Schuyler Colfax. Among people deceased in 1883, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 43Before him are Napoleon Orda, Dục Đức, Auguste Clésinger, Jenny Longuet, Lucien Olivier, and Gustave Aimard. After him are Reinhart Dozy, Hiệp Hòa, Robert Volkmann, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Mahmud Nedim Pasha, and Francesco de Sanctis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 2,797 out of 6,142Before him are Walter Andreas Schwarz (1913), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Albert of Aix (1060), Fritz Busch (1890), Eugen Meindl (1892), and Peter Lely (1618). After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Christoph Bernhard von Galen (1606), Alfred Andersch (1914), Malwida von Meysenbug (1816), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), and Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758).

Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 33Before him are Hans von Ohain (1911), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Henrich Focke (1890), Ricardo Wolf (1887), and Artur Fischer (1919). After him are Eugen Langen (1833), Fritz von Opel (1899), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Adolf Martens (1850), Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), and Walter Bruch (1908).