Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman.
Carl Wilhelm Siemens
The 4-cylinder experimental gas engine subject of Siemens patent (image taken from Theory of the Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk in 1882)
CS Faraday
The Siemens family is the name of a German noble family, family of technology and telecommunications industrialists, whose members were founders and to the present day the largest shareholders of Siemens AG. The family have a wealth of over €8 billion, making them the 5th richest family in Germany, according to Handelsblatt.
Siemens House in Goslar, built in 1692
Siemens Cable factory in Berlin-Siemensstadt around 1900
William Siemens (1823–1883), since 1883 Sir William Siemens, brother of Werner
Carl Siemens (1829–1906), since 1895 Carl von Siemens, brother of Werner