Simes Biography

The nominees Karl von Simes were born in the city of a hereditary citizen of the city of an entrepreneur, one of the founders of the electrical industry in Russia. The formation of electric city transport is closely connected with the surname "Siemens". The company demonstrated the first electric railway in the city of moving to St. Petersburg in the year of the branch’s office, the workshops for the repair and assembly of telegraphs of the 1st line V.

After two years, the first 75 writing telegraphs were delivered to Russia for the line between St. Petersburg and Moscow. In January, this year, according to Werner Siemens, became a turning point in his entrepreneurial career thanks to Russian contracts. Obtaining a major order for the construction and maintenance of telegraph lines was a major commercial success and facilitated the receipt of new contracts.

Soon the first and only telegraph line between Moscow and St. Petersburg was built. In Werner, Siemens himself goes to Russia. Negotiations with the Russian representative office provided him with orders for the next 15 years. The Partnership "Electrical Engineering" turned to the St. Petersburg City Duma with a proposal to illuminate Nevsky Avenue with electricity.

It took all approvals for more than two years, only in August the city administration entered into an agreement with the partnership for the coverage of Nevsky Prospekt on the site from the Admiralty to Anichkov Bridge. However, the lack of financial resources did not allow the project to complete the project, Karl Fedorovich Siemens, having large capital, used the initiative of Russian technical circles, bought up the entire network and lanterns installed by the Electric Engineering partnership, and organized electric lighting of the main street of the capital.

After testing from December 30, two power plants: one on a wooden barge on the Moika River by a policeman now a green bridge with 3 locomotives and 12 dinamomashins of direct current with a capacity of 35 kilowatts, the other - at Kazan Square with 2 locomotives and 3 dynamos, were served by a state of 30 people. The "Office of the Lighting of Nevsky Prospekt with electricity" began to operate.

Thus, by the middle of the x. In addition to it and the factory for the manufacture of telegraph and telephone equipment, Karl Siemens decided to build a Dynamo Mashin plant in St. Petersburg, which would produce high-power electric motors, as well as turbogenerators and transformers. For innovative developments in the radio engineering region in the city, the merits of the company should include the introduction in the city in the city of in the city, elevated to the noble dignity.

Lieutenant Schmidt, 3, and in the last years of his life - in a country house in the guest of the guest was not preserved.