Wilhelm Schmidt (engineer)

At school Wilhelm Schmidt had difficulties with reading, writing and arithmetic, a case of dyslexia.

In 1883 he took a post as a civil engineer in Kassel, where he developed superheated steam technology to the point where it could be practically used.

Schmidt also invented other items, such as the superheater (around 1890) and the piston valve, which he developed together with Robert Garbe of the Prussian state railways.

It develops and builds apparatus for the processes involving the transfer of heat in the petrochemical, chemical and metallurgical industries, e.g. cracked gas coolers for the manufacture of ethylene, gas coolers for the manufacture of methanol, ammonia and hydrogen and a multitude of equipment for special purposes.

He held a strong faith and distributed Warning Cry to the People (Mahnrufe an das Volk) from Bethel, near Bielefeld.