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35-613: It has been awarded from 1916 to 1941 and since 1952 about every three years by the foundation Stiftung Werner-von-Siemens-Ring . The foundation was established on 13 December 1916 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Werner von Siemens . It is located in Berlin and is traditionally managed by the Deutscher Verband Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine (DVT) (English: German Federation of Technical and Scientific Associations). Before 1960,

70-543: A Danish blockade of Kiel during the First Schleswig War . Upon returning home from war, he chose to work on perfecting technologies that had already been established and eventually became known worldwide for his advances in various technologies. In 1843 he sold the rights to his first invention to Elkington of Birmingham . Siemens invented a telegraph that used a needle to point to the right letter, instead of using Morse code . Based on this invention, he founded

105-518: A financial worry, on 10 March 1843, Carl Wilhelm Siemens left for London. He was acting as an agent for his brother Werner, and he hoped to earn enough money by selling a patent in England to help support and educate his many brothers and sisters. He felt a keen desire to see England and the journey cost him £1. William had already shown himself to be an enthusiastic businessman, having financed his trip by selling an invention of his brother's, an improvement to

140-553: A paper in Liebig's Annalen der Chemie on the 'Mercaptan of Selenium,' his mind was busy with the new ideas upon the nature of heat which were promulgated by Carnot , Clapeyron , Joule , Clausius , Mayer , Thomson , and Rankine . He discarded the older notions of heat as a substance, and accepted it as a form of energy. Working on this new line of thought, which gave him an advantage over other inventors of his time, he made his first attempt to economise heat, by constructing, in 1847, at

175-408: A thoroughly material direction, makes them proud of their knowledge and power, and alienates ideal endeavours. The deeper we penetrate into the harmonious action of natural forces regulated by eternal unalterable laws, and yet so thickly veiled from our complete comprehension, the more we feel on the contrary moved to humble modesty, the smaller appears to us the extent of our knowledge, the more active

210-568: A year later, their mother died and their father soon afterwards in 1840. Once William had completed his course at the Magdeburg school he went on to the University of Göttingen where he attended lectures on physical geography and technology, high mathematics, theoretical chemistry and practical chemistry and physics. He was also able for a short time to work with Wilhelm Weber , the renowned scientist and inventor, in his Magnetic Observatory. William

245-415: Is also the link which connects his electrical with his metallurgical researches. Siemens pursued two major themes in his inventive efforts, one based upon the science of heat, the other based upon the science of electricity; and the electric thermometer was, as it were, a delicate cross-coupling which connected both. In 1874 he had a special cable ship built, according to his design, for Siemens Brothers ,

280-457: Is our endeavour to draw more from the inexhaustible fountain of knowledge, and understanding, and the higher rises our admiration of the endless wisdom which ordains and penetrates the whole creation. Werner von Siemens' portrait appeared on the 20  ℛ︁ℳ︁ banknote issued by the Reichsbank from 1929 until 1939. Printing ceased in 1939 but the note remained in circulation until

315-757: Is the President of Germany , and the President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt is the foundation council's executive chairman. The council votes on the recipients. Members of the council are the bearers of the ring and representatives of the member scientific and technical societies. Source: Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation Werner von Siemens Ernst Werner Siemens ( von Siemens from 1888; English: / ˈ s iː m . ən z / SEEM -ənz ; German: [ˈziːməns, -mɛns] ; 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892)

350-584: The Bauakademie Berlin. However, since his family was highly indebted and thus could not afford to pay the tuition fees, he chose to join the Prussian Military Academy 's School of Artillery and Engineering, between the years 1835–1838, instead, where he received his officers training. Siemens was thought of as a good soldier, receiving various medals , and contributing to the invention of electrically-charged sea mines , which were used to combat

385-597: The Kingdom of Hanover in the German Confederation , the fourth child (of fourteen) of Christian Ferdinand Siemens (31 July 1787 – 16 January 1840) and wife Eleonore Deichmann (1792 – 8 July 1839). His father was a tenant farmer of the Siemens family , an old family of Goslar , documented since 1384. Carl Heinrich von Siemens and Carl Wilhelm Siemens were his brothers. After finishing school, Siemens intended to study at

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420-453: The dynamo although others invented it earlier. On 14 December 1877 he received German patent No. 2355 for an electromechanical "dynamic" or moving-coil transducer, which was adapted by A. L. Thuras and E. C. Wente for the Bell System in the late 1920s for use as a loudspeaker . Wente's adaptation was issued U.S. patent 1,707,545 in 1929. In May 1881, Siemens & Halske inaugurated

455-527: The Gas Engine ) appears to be similar to the commercially successful Brayton engine of 1872. In the discussion section of The Theory of the Gas Engine Siemens discloses that The engine promised to give very good results, but about the same time he began to give his attention to the production of intense heat in furnaces, and having to make his choice between the two subjects, he selected the furnace and

490-463: The Signet , Edinburgh, and sister of Mr Lewis Gordon , Professor of Engineering in the University of Glasgow —and became a naturalised British citizen. He used to say that on 19 March of that year he took oath and allegiance to two ladies in one day—to The Queen and to his betrothed. He was knighted —becoming Sir William—a few months before his death. He died on the evening of Monday 19 November 1883 and

525-429: The carrying on of common workshops by unions of workmen, who will receive a sound basis only through the general extension of knowledge and civilization, and through the possibility of obtaining cheaper capital. He also rejected the claim that science leads to materialism , stating instead: Equally unfounded is the complaint that the study of science and the technical application of the forces of nature gives to mankind

560-668: The company Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske on 1 October 1847, with the company opening a workshop on 12 October. The company was internationalised soon after its founding. One brother of Werner represented him in England ( Sir William Siemens ) and another in St. Petersburg , Russia ( Carl von Siemens ), each earning recognition. Following his industrial career, he was ennobled in 1888, becoming Werner von Siemens. He retired from his company in 1890 and died in 1892 in Berlin. The company, reorganized as Siemens & Halske AG , Siemens-Schuckertwerke and – since 1966 – Siemens AG

595-409: The factory of John Hick , of Bolton, an engine of four horse-power, having a condenser provided with regenerators, and using superheated steam. Two years later he continued his experiments at the works of Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co. , of Smethwick , near Birmingham , who had taken the matter in hand. The use of superheated steam was attended with many practical difficulties, and the invention

630-700: The first President of the Society of Telegraph Engineers which became the Institution of Electrical Engineers , the forerunner of the Institution of Engineering and Technology [1] In 1860 William Siemens constructed a remarkable gas engine (the same year the very first commercial engine was produced by Lenoir ). It did not get beyond the experimental stage, though its principle of operation (described in Siemens British patent 2074 of 1860, and by Siemens in The Theory of

665-442: The gold and silver plating process, to George Richards Elkington . He was well aware, as he wrote to Werner, that his visit might achieve nothing, but if all went well he intended to remain. This indeed proved to be the case. Siemens had been trained as a mechanical engineer, and his most important work at this early stage was non-electrical; the greatest achievement of his life, the regenerative furnace . Though in 1847 he published

700-478: The issue of the Deutsche Mark on 21 June 1948. In 1923, German botanist Ignatz Urban published Siemensia , which is a monotypic genus of flowering plant from Cuba belonging to the family Rubiaceae and was named in honor of Werner von Siemens. Carl Wilhelm Siemens Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens FRS FRSA (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens ,

735-504: The metallurgic process leading out of it; and that was why the engine had remained where it was for so long a time. Siemens was also responsible for the hot tube ignition system used on many of the early gas engines. In June 1862 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1871 delivered their Bakerian Lecture . As a member of the circumnavigation committee preparing the oceanographic expedition of HMS Challenger , Siemens

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770-475: The monumental Indo-European ( Calcutta to London) telegraph line. In 1859 William Siemens devoted a great part of his time to electrical invention and research; and the number of telegraph apparatus of all sorts – telegraph cables, land lines, and their accessories – which have emanated from the Siemens Telegraph Works (at Charlton , SE London) has been remarkable. In 1872 Sir William Siemens became

805-399: The name of the award had been simply Siemens Ring (German Siemens-Ring or Siemensring ). The award is presented as a golden ring with emeralds and rubies depicting the leaves and fruit of laurel , placed in an individually crafted cassette carrying the portrait of Werner von Siemens and the dedication to the recipient. According to the statutes, patron of the foundation council

840-451: The pointer telegraph, Siemens made sufficient contributions to the development of electrical engineering that he became known as the founding father of the discipline in Germany. He built the world's first electric passenger train in 1879, and the first electric elevator in 1880. His company produced the tubes with which Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen investigated x-rays. He claimed invention of

875-719: The world's first electric tram service, in the Berlin suburb of Groß-Lichterfelde . Siemens is also the father of the trolleybus , which he initially tried and tested on 29 April 1882, using his " Elektromote ". He was married twice: first in 1852 to Mathilde Drumann (died 1 July 1867), the daughter of the historian Wilhelm Drumann ; second in 1869 to his relative Antonie Siemens (1840–1900). His children from first marriage were Arnold von Siemens and Georg Wilhelm von Siemens , and his children from second marriage were Hertha von Siemens (1870 – 5 January 1939), married in 1899 to Carl Dietrich Harries , and Carl Friedrich von Siemens . Siemens

910-506: Was a German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist . Siemens's name has been adopted as the SI unit of electrical conductance, the siemens . He founded the electrical and telecommunications conglomerate Siemens and invented the electric tram , trolley bus , electric locomotive and electric elevator . Ernst Werner Siemens was born in Lenthe, today part of Gehrden , near Hannover , in

945-500: Was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden , near Hanover where his father, Christian Ferdinand Siemens (31 July 1787 – 16 January 1840), a tenant farmer, farmed an estate belonging to the Crown. The Siemens family is an old family of Goslar which has been documented since 1384. His mother was Eleonore Deichmann (1792–8 July 1839), and William, or Carl Wilhelm,

980-417: Was an advocate of social democracy , and he hoped that industrial development would not be used in favour of capitalism , stating: A number of great factories in the hands of rich capitalists, in which "slaves of work" drag out their miserable existence, is not, therefore, the goal of the development of the age of natural science, but a return to individual labour, or where the nature of things demands it,

1015-907: Was buried one week later in Kensal Green Cemetery , London. A glass window installed in Westminster Abbey in his honour commemorated him. Lady Siemens died in 1902. In the autumn of 1838 when William was fifteen years old, he began his studies to become an engineer. He attended a highly respected School of Trade and Commerce, the Gewerbe-Schule Magdeburg . William had a particularly close relationship with his eldest brother; Ernst Werner Siemens had decided to teach William mathematics so that he could learn English at school instead. This programme helped them both and William's knowledge of English proved an incalculable advantage to them both. He went on to pass his examination easily. Less than

1050-583: Was commissioned in 1871 to develop an electric thermometer to measure the temperature of the ocean at different depths. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1877. The regenerative furnace is the greatest single invention of Charles William Siemens, using a process known as the Siemens-Martin process . The electric pyrometer , which is perhaps the most elegant and original of all William Siemens's inventions,

1085-400: Was later led by his brother Carl, his sons Arnold , Wilhelm , and Carl Friedrich , his grandsons Hermann and Ernst and his great-grandson Peter von Siemens . Siemens AG is one of the largest electrotechnological firms in the world. The von Siemens family still owns 6% of the company shares (as of 2013) and holds a seat on the supervisory board, being the largest shareholder. Apart from

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1120-413: Was nearly nineteen when he left university to become an apprentice engineer. He also found time for more artistic pursuits such as taking dancing lessons and even painting a landscape of Nordhausen for the wife of the factory manager. His progress in the engineering factory was so rapid that his two-year apprenticeship was cut down to one. Due to the education of the younger members of the family becoming

1155-617: Was not entirely successful; nevertheless, the Society of Arts, in 1850, acknowledged the value of the principle, by awarding Siemens a gold medal for his regenerative condenser. In 1850 he established the London sales office of Siemens & Halske , the engineering company producing telegraphs , which his brother Werner had founded in 1847 at Berlin. He started selling such devices to the wire rope producer R. S. Newall and Company in Dundee , of which his friend (and uncle of his later wife) Lewis Gordon

1190-629: Was the co-owner. Newall & Co. also outsourced test jobs for cables to Siemens and such enabled the new company to enter the ocean cable-laying business. The branch office became Siemens Brothers in 1858. In the 1850s, the company was involved in building long distance telegraph networks in Russia. In 1855, a company branch headed by another brother, Carl Heinrich von Siemens , opened in St Petersburg , Russia. By 1863, Sir William had his own cable factory built at Charlton , London. In 1867, Siemens completed

1225-428: Was the fourth son of a family of fourteen children. Of his siblings, Ernst Werner Siemens , the fourth child, became a famous electrician and was associated with William in many of his inventions. He was also the brother of Carl Heinrich von Siemens and a cousin of Alexander Siemens . On 23 July 1859, Siemens was married at St James's, Paddington , to Anne Gordon—the youngest daughter of Mr Joseph Gordon, Writer to

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