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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 209,403 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Carl Wilhelm Siemens is the 202nd most popular inventor (up from 234th in 2019), the 2,477th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,794th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Inventor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 202 out of 426. Before him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Oskar Barnack, Eunice Newton Foote, Émile Baudot, David Schwarz, and Raymond Damadian. After him are Henry Maudslay, Narcís Monturiol, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Melvil Dewey, Shigeo Shingo, and Oliver Lodge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 34. Before him are Joseph Monier, Jean Chacornac, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Katsu Kaishū, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, and Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria. After him are Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Marietta Alboni, Enrico Betti, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Karl Schenk, and Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. Among people deceased in 1883, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 36. Before him are Franz Doppler, Iwakura Tomomi, Arnold Toynbee, Hendrik Conscience, Edward FitzGerald, and Juliette Drouet. After him are Filippo Pacini, Jenny Longuet, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Gustave Aimard, Napoleon Orda, and Seru Epenisa Cakobau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 2,477 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert of Saxony (1316), Friedrich Pollock (1894), Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (1898), Max Richter (1966), Johann Liss (1597), and Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (1694). After him are Rolf Stommelen (1943), Ami Boué (1794), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), Alfred Meyer (1891), Michael Rummenigge (1964), and Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Carl Wilhelm Siemens ranks 28. Before him are Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Henrich Focke (1890), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), and Oskar Barnack (1879). After him are Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Artur Fischer (1919), Max Skladanowsky (1863), Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Hans von Ohain (1911), and Eugen Langen (1833).

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