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LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM SIEMENS, F.R.S., 



D.C.L., LL.D., Member of Council of the Institution of 

 Civil Engineers. By WILLIAM POLE, F.R.S., Honorary 

 Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 



" For many years Sir W. Siemens has been a regular attendant at our 

 meetings, and to few, indeed, have they been more indebted for success. 

 Whatever the occasion, he had always new and interesting ideas, put forth 

 In language which a child could understand. It is no exaggei-ation to say 

 that the life of such a man was spent in the public service." LORD 

 RAVLEIOH at. Jlritish Association, 1884. 



" Mr. Pole had a straightforwaid story to tell, and has told it in a way 

 likely to interest and instruct a wide circle of readers. Sir William's 

 biography shows him to have been a man of high talent, which under 

 effective discipline and the teachings of experience, was successfully and 

 profitably applied in devising and carrying out undertakings which form 

 marked features in the history of the period with which this biography 

 deals." Times. 



" So inseparably connected is the career of this remarkable man with 

 some of the most wonderful inventions of the past half-century, that the 

 narrative of his life is in fact a history of the progress, in this country, of 

 applied science in the two great department! of heat and electricity. As 

 Mr. Pole justly observes, he was a civil engineer according to the must 

 comprehensive definition of that profession the art of directing the great 

 powers in Nature for the use and convenience of Man." Xmtsman. 



"The most interesting book of the kind that we have read since 

 Nasmyth's delightful autobiography." Satunlay Itucii-n; 



"His success in life was doubtless due in no small degree to his innate 

 genius, but this would have been unavailing without the energy and deter- 

 mination which accompanied it. The record of his life and work should 

 be read by every student, and should be in the library of every Mechanics' 

 Institute in the country." Builder. 



" It is of much more than merely technical or scientific interest 



his biographer with admirable skill maintains the personal interest of the 

 narrative throughout." Manchester dttiirilitn/. 



" A story of great interest, one sure to become familiar in English-speak- 

 ing households, as well as in those of Germany." Liverpool Mercury. 

 " The book will be found full of instruction and interest." Nature. 



