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The Woolwich factory was severely bombed (27 air raids were aimed at the plant) and many buildings were destroyed or damaged. Shortly before the war, the workforce numbered over 9,000. During the war it fell to around 7,000. [1] After the war Siemens Brothers joined with Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company to further develop radar for ships ...
Siemens-Schuckert designed a number of heavy bombers early in World War I, building a run of seven Riesenflugzeug.Intended to be used in the strategic role in long duration flights, the SSW R-series had three 150 h.p Benz Bz.III engines in the cabin driving two propellers connected to a common gear-box through a combination leather-cone and centrifugal-key clutch in SSW R.I to the SSW R.VII ...
Siemens & Halske (S & H) was incorporated in 1897 and then merged parts of its activities with Schuckert & Co., Nuremberg, in 1903 to become Siemens-Schuckert. In 1907, Siemens (Siemens & Halske and Siemens-Schuckert) had 34,324 employees and was the seventh-largest company in the German empire by number of employees.
Johann Sigmund Schuckert (18 October 1846 in Nuremberg - 17 September 1895 in Wiesbaden) was an electrical engineer and the founder of Schuckert & Co. (after 1903 Siemens-Schuckert). He was a pioneer of industrialization in Nuremberg and for the electrical industry a pioneer of international status.
Charles Maria Weber – pioneer of California and founder of Stockton, California; John Henry Weber – fur trader and explorer in the Rocky Mountains. The Weber River, Weber State University, and Weber County, Utah, were named after him. Louis J. Weichmann – witness for the prosecution in the conspiracy trial of the assassination of Abraham ...
Shaping the Future. The Siemens Entrepreneurs 1847–2018. Ed. Siemens Historical Institute, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 9-783867-746243. William Pole, Life of William Siemens, (London, 1888), p. 471; Facsimile reprint Siemens Ltd. 1986, ISBN 1-85260-416-6; Richard Hennig, Buch der berühmten Ingenieure (A book on famous engineers), (Leipzig, 1911)
NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Clear Lake, TX was the push behind the 9000 series, with JSC eventually having a 13 node 9000VLCBX on its campus (replaced by a Siemens 9006i and later a Siemens HiPath switch). The various models of IBM produced ROLM 9751 CBX are 10, 20, 40, 50 & 70.
Clockwork-driven locomotive George the Fifth, ca. 1922.Tender not original King Edward live steam locomotive Ocean liner Flying boat. Bing or Gebrüder Bing ("Bing brothers") was a German toy company founded in 1863 in Nuremberg, Germany by two brothers, Ignaz Bing and Adolf Bing, initially producing metal kitchen utensils, but best remembered for its extensive lines of model trains and live ...