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Siemens Bros., were established by William Siemens in conjunction 

 with Mi'. Halske of Berlin, and the great undertaking so successfully 

 carried out by this firm have more than a commercial interest. The 

 scientific attainments, together with the wide experience and great 

 inventive genius brought to bear by Siemens on the work entrusted 

 to it, speedily succeeded in raising the firm to that eminence which it 

 has ever since held. Alike in land as in sea telegraphic engineering, 

 it has long held a first place, and while it would be out of place hero 

 to catalogue the various successes in cable laying and repairing of 

 the Siemens firm, we may note that these include the North China, 

 and Platino-Braziliera cables, the cables for the Indo-European lines, 

 and no less than four Atlantic cables completed, and two new ones in 

 progress at the time of Siemens' death. Many of the machines and 

 processes now in use in the manufacture and maintenance of land and 

 sea telegraph cables have been greatly improved, while some of them 

 indeed owe their existence to William Siemens. One of these machines, 

 the " Faraday," which is primarily a cable-laying and lifting machine, 

 is a perfect monument of Siemens' practical genius. This vessel was 

 designed by him in 1874 for the purpose of laying the Direct United 

 States Cables, and was named the " Faraday " in grateful remembrance 

 of that " master in science " to whom he owed so much. 



It is remarkable that a ship capable of doing what no other ship 

 afloat can do in the way of manoeuvre, as has been proved by her 

 success in the difficult and delicate operations of laying and lifting 

 cables in depths of 2,500 fathoms, and of cable repairing in all 

 seasons and all weathers, should have been the work of a landsman, 

 born in the middle of Europe, who early made himself a sailor in 

 cable-laying expeditions in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, but 

 whose life has been chiefly devoted to land engineering and science. 



In the most recent advances that have been made in the application 

 of electrical energy, William Siemens has been a pioneer, and it is 

 in connexion with these that his name has become a household word. 

 In the numerous and important inventions pertaining to this 

 department of electrical engineering, to which the name applies, 

 William Siemens has been associated with his brother Werner, and 

 the world has profited largely by this brotherly co-operation of genius. 

 More than a quarter of a century ago they brought out what is now 

 known as the Siemens armature, which was shown at the London 

 Exhibition of 1862, mounted between the poles of a multiple steel 

 horseshoe magnet, and serving for the transmitter in an electric 

 telegraph. That was what we may now call the one-coil Siemens 

 armature. It suggested inevitably the mounting of two or more 

 coils on the same iron core, in meridional planes at equal angles 

 round the axis, and as nearly equal and similar in all respects as is 

 allowed by the exigencies of completing the circuits with tho 



