The Life of Sir William Siemens is a biography written by William Pole in 1888. The book chronicles the life of Sir William Siemens, a prominent engineer and inventor of the 19th century. Born in Hanover, Germany in 1823, Siemens moved to England in 1843 and began working as an engineer. Over the course of his career, he invented a number of important technologies, including the regenerative furnace, the electric generator, and the dynamo. He also...