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ALEXANDER SIEMENS was born in Hanover in January 1847. He belonged to the second generation of the four brothers Siemens whose names are so well known. He used to tell how his parents owed allegiance to the King of England until 1837, when, under the Salic Law, Hanover was separated from England and given to the Duke of Cumberland, the fifth son of George III. In 1866 Hanover was annexed by Prussia, and Siemens automatically became a Prussian. He was educated at Hanover and Berlin, and in 1867 entered the telegraph workshops of Siemens' Brothers at Woolwich, of which Sir William Siemens, the first president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, was a director. He was then employed in the erection of the Indo-European telegraph line in Persia and in laying cables in the Black Sea. He also worked in the cable ship Faraday. He served in the German Army during the Franco-Prussian War and was awarded the Iron Cross. In 1878 he became a naturalised British subject.
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R., A. Mr. Alexander Siemens. Nature 121, 329–330 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121329a0
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