Friedrich Siemens

German engineer

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In industrial glass: Glass melting
As pioneered by the brothers Friedrich and William Siemens, working with the Chance brothers in England about 1860, regenerator-equipped pot furnaces consumed only about one-tenth of the fuel of the old furnaces. It was in 1867 that Friedrich Siemens, working in his late brother Hans’ factory in Dresden, Ger., successfully…
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