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Siemens Brothers and Company Limited was an electrical engineering design and manufacturing business in London, England.It was first established as a branch [note 1] in 1858 by a brother of the founder of the German electrical engineering firm Siemens & Halske.
Siemens-Schuckert (or Siemens-Schuckertwerke) was a German electrical engineering company headquartered in Berlin, Erlangen and Nuremberg that was incorporated into the Siemens AG in 1966. Siemens Schuckert was founded in 1903 when Siemens & Halske acquired Schuckertwerke. [ 1 ]
The Siemens family was first documented in 1384 with Henning Symons, a farmer of the Free imperial city of Goslar in Lower Saxony, Germany.The family tree begins with Ananias Siemens (c. 1538 – 1591), a citizen, brewer and owner of an oil mill in Goslar, belonging to the Shoemaker's Guild, as his ancestors were shoemakers.
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.
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.
Nuremberg U-Bahn U2 and U3: 30 two-car driverless trains designated as DT3, 36m long, 2.9m wide with an inter-car gangway. 80 seats and room for 240 standing passengers. [7] Kaohsiung Metro: 42 3-car sets, with provision to eventually be expanded to 6-car sets
The first unit was delivered in April 2004 as part of the "Rubin" project, which planned to introduce fully automated trains on the Nuremberg U-Bahn. [4] [1] Rubin is an acronym for Realisierung einer automatisierten U-Bahn in Nürnberg (Implementation of an automated U-Bahn in Nuremberg). [6] [7] Automated test running on line U3 began in ...
Siemens was born in England when his father Carl Friedrich von Siemens was director of Siemens Brothers and returned to Germany after his father became head of Siemens-Schuckertwerke. He studied physics at Technical University of Munich. He joined Siemens in 1929, beginning his career at the Werner Plant for Telecommunications in Berlin.