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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 84. Chapters: ABB Group, Alstom, Aluminium conductor steel-reinforced cable, Ansaldo Energia, Babcock & Wilcox, Battery isolator, C. A. Parsons and Company, Capacitor voltage transformer, Cheng cycle, Contact protection, Demand factor, Dongfang Electric, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, E4 Group, Electrical conductor, Electric power system, Electric Power Systems Research, Ellipse Law, Energomash, Fault (power engineering), Feeder line (network), FNET, General Electric, Grid energy storage, High-leg delta, Hitachi, Holomorphic embedding load flow method, KEPCO E&C, Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod, Load balancing (electrical power), Mains distribution unit, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Operating reserve, Per-unit system, Power distribution unit, Power Engineering (magazine), Power flow study, Power Machines, Power quality compression algorithm, Power system protection, Ramp generator, Relay, Siemens, Slack bus, Suspension tower, Toshiba, Transposition tower, Turbine, Utilization factor, Value of lost load. Excerpt: Siemens AG (German pronunciation: ) is a German multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company. Siemens' principal activities are in the fields of industry, energy, transportation and healthcare. It is organized into five main divisions: Industry, Energy, Healthcare, Infrastructure & Cities, and Siemens Financial Services (SFS). Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 360,000 people across nearly 190 countries and reported global revenue of approx 73.5 billion euros for the year of 2011.. The company has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent years. Werner von Siemens Siemens & Halske was founded by Werner von Siemens on 12 October 1847. Based on the telegraph, his invention used a needle to point to the sequence of letters, instead of using Morse code. The company, then called Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske, opened its first workshop on October 12. In 1848, the company built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe; 500 km from Berlin to Frankfurt am Main. In 1850, the founder's younger brother, Carl Wilhelm Siemens started to represent the company in London. In the 1850s, the company was involved in building long distance telegraph networks in Russia. In 1855, a company branch headed by another brother, Carl Heinrich von Siemens, opened in St Petersburg, Russia. In 1867, Siemens completed the monumental Indo-European (Calcutta to London) telegraph line. In 1881, a Siemens AC Alternator driven by a watermill was used to power the world's first electric street lighting in the town of Godalming, United Kingdom. The company continued to grow and diversified into electric trains and light bulbs. In 1890, the founder retired and left the company to his brother Carl and sons Arnold and Wilhelm. Siemens & Halske (S & H) was incorporated in 1897, and then merged parts of its activities with Schuckert
