Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,255 pages of information and 244,497 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Carl Louis Schwendler

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Carl Louis Schwendler (1838-1882)


1882 Obituary [1]

. . . brought him into contact with Dr. Werner Siemens, in the immediate vicinity of whose telegraph works Schwendler had found employment in the office of a gas-engineer. After a short probation, during which he was, on account of his physical strength, employed at the anvil, he was installed in Dr. Werner Siemens’s laboratory, helping Dr. Esselbach, Robert Sabine and others in the re-determination of the Siemens mercurial unit of electrical resistance. He also assisted in making determinations of the conducting power of other metals, besides investigations on the distribution of magnetism in bars. . .



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