Milestones of business development
1843
Wilhelm (William) Siemens goes to England on behalf of his brother Werner to sell the rights to Werner’s patented gold-plating technique
1850
A Siemens & Halske sales agency is established under William’s direction
1853
William takes over the running of the English business, which primarily involves the selling of water meters
1858
The Londoner agency is converted into an independent company known as Siemens, Halske & Co. with its own workshops
1863
A cable factory is built in Woolwich
1865
The company is renamed Siemens Brothers
1868–1869
Siemens Brothers lays the Russia to Teheran section of the Indo-European telegraph line
1873–1874
The first Atlantic cable is laid by Siemens Brothers with the cable steamer "Faraday", built specially for this purpose
1880
Siemens Brothers is converted into a stock company
1881
An order is received to supply electric lighting for the Savoy Theater in London
1903
The Stafford dynamo plant starts production
1906
Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Ltd., London and Stafford, is founded
1908
An incandescent lamp factory is built in Dalston
1914
The shares of the English Siemens company are confiscated by the British government
1929
Contacts are reestablished; a cooperation agreement is concluded
1964
A Siemens sales company is founded under the name Siemens Ltd.
1989
The Plessey Company is taken over jointly by Siemens and GEC; Siemens takes over the research center Roke Manor Research; a controlling stake in Oxford Magnet Technology is acquired
2001
An order is received for EMU cars for the new train Desiro UK specially developed for the UK ("Desiro UK")
2004
BBC commissions Siemens to operate its company-wide IT infrastructure
2005
In the biggest modernization program in the UK, Siemens wins an order for the periodic delivery of medical systems for both the Barts and Royal London hospitals
2008
In London, Siemens and McKinsey publish a study on sustainable infrastructure
2009
Siemens wins order to provide 175 wind turbines for the world’s largest offshore wind farm London Array (inaugurated 2013)
2012
Siemens opens the world’s largest exhibition center dedicated to the future of cities, the Crystal in East London
2013
Acquisition of Invensys Rail, a leading global supplier of signaling and control equipment for rail
2013
The Department for Transport awards a contract for 1,140 new Desiro City commuter rail carriages for the Thameslink route making this the biggest order Siemens has ever won in Great Britain
