American reacts to 10 German Inventions that CHANGED THE WORLD

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[@e.s.7272]

There are other important German inventions among others Airbag, Aspirin, Chip Card, Computer, Contact Lenses, Helicopter, Jeans, Jet Engine, Motorcycle, Record Player, Refrigerator, Scanner, Tape Recorder, Telephone, Television, Toothpaste, X-Ray Technology

[@Al69BfR]

cardiac catheter…

[@ogcaveman8120]

nuke

[@V0r4xiz]

The computer is not a German invention. That thing is an invention centuries in the making with contributions from many countries, only one of which is Germany. Same with the telephone. We have all long come to the agreement that it was Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone as is. Reis' phone prototype never picked up because it just didn't work. Also Nipkow's electronic telescope was just the basic precursor to the actual television which was invented by Scotsman John Baird. If you credit yourself with "the invention of" everything that had one of your scientists' contributions in the field, you can bloody well credit yourself with basically everything that exists. Because there isn't a single thing invented in the last 1000 years that didn't have contributions from a German, British, French or American scientist at some point along the way.

[@xSoulhunterDKx]

Heroin too

[@vomm]

World Wars

[@V0r4xiz]

Then there was this little thing called the automobile invented by Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler ^^. But hey, knowing about all of these inventions, imagine the shock German foreign exchange students went through when arriving with their American host families who then proceeded to ask them if they have cars in their country.

[@grandmak.]

😂 so true !

[@mirco1205]

@@grandmak. i was asked if we have fridges and when the NSDAP will get more votes again, but that was in the U.S. as a german visiting a Bar in Chicago...^^

[@asaris_]

Oh God yes. The good old question of "Do you have cars in Germany?" "Nah. We only invented them and build them for you. We don't use them. Why would we?"

[@asaris_]

@@mirco1205 I once was verbally assaulted over "Why haven't you idiots killed Hitler yet?!?" I'm not kidding. 🤦 At first I thought he was making a joke when he said "You HAVE to kill Hitler", to which I responded with "Uh... no, we don't?" "But he's EVIL!" "Yeah..." "So, WHY DON'T YOU KILL HIM?" "We... Kinda don't have to?" "OMG you're such a Nazi!" "No, I'm not." "But you love Hitler!" "No, I don't." "Then why are you defending him?" "Uh... I'm not?" "THEN F*CKING PUT HIM ON TRIAL AND EXECUTE HIM!" "Are you shitting me right now?" "I've never been more serious in my entire life..." "Dude... He's dead." "No, he's not!" "Uh... Why do you think that?" "There's no KZbin video of his execution." "Dude... He killed himself in a bunker a couple of days before the war ended, which, for the record was over half a century ago, so even if you don't believe that, the guy was born 1880something or so. He'd be the oldest f*cking human in the history of mankind..." "Oh... You sure?" "🤦"

[@grandmak.]

@@mirco1205 that doesn't surprise me at all. I was asked if we had electricity in Germany and asked " the German police is called Gestapo, right?". I told them that we live on trees and only seldom come down to socialise . 😅

[@rainerausdemspring894]

You missed: The automobile, the bicycle, the computer, the chemical fertilizer invented by Haber and Bosch probably saved the lives of billions, and thousands of others. In the 19th and early 20th century scientist and engineers learned German and came to Germany in order to study at a German university.

[@dontanton7775]

And then H*tler f*ked it all up. Terrible turn of history for such a great nation.

[@olgahein4384]

Fun fact: Nowadays people who study English Linguistics come to study to Germany. More precisely, to the south west, with their dream destination being the University Of Freiburg. For being the world wide leading university in English Linguistics, they even got the Elite University status. Unfortunately, a few years later the 'definition' of Elite was changed, and Freiburg was one of the first universities to loose that status. Cause they were too specialized. And it doesn't matter that it's leading on a world wide scale in its specialization till today.

[@cooler1213]

Ironic that Fritz Haber also invented poison gas

[@erdbeerschosch2839]

Didn't the British invent the computer?

[@rainerausdemspring894]

@@erdbeerschosch2839 In Germany, we believe that Zuse's Z3 was the first programmable computer - rather simplistic, though. Of course, you could even argue that Babbage invented the computer but could not build it. The question is: What is a computer? Some people even argue that Tring invented the computer, but this is plain nonsense. Anyway, the Americans believe they have invented everything.

[@tosa2522]

What about X-ray, invented by Wilhelm Conard Röntgen. This is too important to be missing from this list.

[@norrinradd2364]

X-rays aren't a invention they are a discovery. X-rays exists since the beginning of the universe 😉

[@k3nb055]

They are actually the number 1 in the video he watched, he just ended his reaction a bit too early

[@tosa2522]

@@norrinradd2364 Then just technical use.🙃

[@k3nb055]

@@norrinradd2364 you're not wrong, technically the invention would be the x-ray machine

[@InspektorDreyfus]

What do they call Mr. Röntgen in US? X-Man?

[@ravanpee1325]

Nr.1 the Computer by Konrad Zuse in 1943, Nr.2 the car by Carl Benz

[@herrbonk3635]

Konrad Zuse developed his first computers between 1935 and 1941.

[@ravanpee1325]

@@herrbonk3635 You are right, I copied it wrong. But nonetheless a great achievement and the inventor is not so well known how he would deserve it.

[@vomm]

It is not so easy with computers and cars, the same with telephones and many other things.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

@@vomm very easy with cars... there was no cars... Benz invented them... then there was cars... computers a lil more difficult... as Turing technically invented the first computer... the dispute is rather when Zuse or Turing "invented" it.... but Babbage wrote his theory on computers in like the 1890's so he technically invented them

[@nox5555]

@@LoFiAxolotl He didnt invent cars, he just build the first "modern" one.but the most important part was also invented in germany. we have Otto engines, Diesel engines and at some point had Wankel engines.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

Wait, no mention of Vinyl records? Mentioning the first modern computer developed by Konrad Zuse also would had been cool. Justus von Liebig also was forgotten - he invented the fertilizer that made it possible to literally feed billions of people everyday

[@David-lm2ht]

Not to mention the nitrogen-synthesis that became available through Haber&Bosch. It made both world wars possible, it benefitted the holocaust (i know that these are bad things, but still, they changed the world) and is another way for producing fertiliser. 90% of todays fertilisers are produced with the Haber & Bosch process.

[@alexanderantoninsommerkamp4714]

I had the privilege of meeting Konrad Zuse randomly, at the beach of the North Sea :) I still find it cool :D

[@caligo7918]

@@alexanderantoninsommerkamp4714 Saw him a couple of times, when i was little. I even went to the Konrad-Zuse-Schule to become a computer tech.

[@alexanderantoninsommerkamp4714]

@@caligo7918 Wow thats awesome!

[@Resomius]

If I had a coin for every german chemist that revoluzionized the world by inventing fertelizer AND using gas to stop people from moving I would have two coins. Witch is not much but it is funny that it happend twice... (Liebig invented Chloroform.)

[@heinedietiker4943]

Even more important than inventions are discoveries because they are fundamental to science and many products follow from them. The infinite desimal calculus (Leibniz), dualsystem (Leibniz, this is the base of all computer languages), quantum physics (Planck, Heisenberg), the theory of relativity (Einstein), the identification of bacteria as pathogens (Koch) and the rules of recessive or dominant hereditary factors (Mendel) are considered German discoveries.

[@hughjazz4936]

Newton would like to have a chat about that.

[@spieldings]

And the "Toll" receptor, also the "Toll-like-receptor" (antigen-specific acquired immunity) or the "spätzle-protein"

[@RubraLIber]

Computer=Turing

[@hughjazz4936]

@@RubraLIber Konrad Zuse would like to have a chat about that!

[@RubraLIber]

@@hughjazz4936 Marian Rejewski would like to have a chat about that!

[@SilvanaDil]

Fun fact: There are only four complete vellum copies of Gutenberg's bible from those heady days of the 15th Century -- one each in Germany, the UK, France and the USA.

[@rickyratte5643]

Well, and the Chinese invented it but its not practical for them bc they have so many Letters. But they prinded poems

[@lunastar8988]

the one in Germany is in mainz. Gutenbergs birth city

[@dullibulli9370]

@@rickyratte5643 Most likely they copied it… As they always do

[@gr4vityjuli4n]

@@rickyratte5643 the chinese invented PRINTING not the PRINTING PRESS

[@steemlenn8797]

@@gr4vityjuli4n No, they actually had printing presses, but didn't use them because their models were bad. More importantly, it's the movable (metal) types that make the big differecne.

[@aw3s0me12]

*The Chip Card (1977):* Born out of the desire for a more secure credit card, German inventors *Jürgen Dethloff* and *Helmut Göttrup* spent nine years developing the chip card. Their card, which contained a built in programmable microprocessor, is the ancestor of our mobile, credit, and debit cards, and even the chips in our passports.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

good luck finding that chip in american credit cards

[@k.schmidt2740]

@@LoFiAxolotl "... ANCESTOR of ..." I would not expect to find your 4X great-grandfather in your household either.

[@aw3s0me12]

@@LoFiAxolotl well tbh, the US (which is even arround 120mil less pop then the EU) does & does not a lot of things, *not* in favor of the US pop. Yes, US chip-bank cards are not as common as arround *the world* but similar to the US ehm "healthcare" it would be about time to step up for more security for the pop in general. >> If a US person loses his card, the finder ONLY has to copy his signature boom payment dooone. >> If a US person loses his chip-card, the finder has 3 trys to get the code or get the card blockaded & reported on auto. If at a bank automate, the card gets taken & not coming back out. This. Is. Way.more. secure ;)

[@LeopoldoGhielmetti]

The chip card was invented by Roland Moreno in 1974, not by a german

[@aw3s0me12]

@@LeopoldoGhielmetti *Wrong* what *Moreno,* born in *Egypt,* invented: *computer chip smart card* _>> inventing the computer chip smart card now used by banks, supermarkets, filling stations, mobile phone SIM cards, public phone booths, Oyster cards, identity documents and driving licences._ *He did NOT* invented *bank chip cards* he invented SIM & Smart-Cards for computers. _>> Which are truely GREAT ones!!, but simple are different inventions._

[@simrock_]

Sadly the, to me at least, most important one is missing, which would be the Haber-Bosch process for industrial scale Ammonia production (for fertilizer), allowing the population boom of the 20th century to happen.

[@vHindenburg]

Throw Justus Liebig in the Ring as well.

[@RustyDust101]

It wasn't only able to allow the population boom, it allowed it to feed roughly eight billion people on this planet. Without it three billion would theoretically be possible, four billion at starvation levels. At five billion people there would have been multiple wars breaking out over the simplest food supplies. True, it can also be abused for the production of explosives as well as chemical nerve agents such as mustard gas, which is the reason why Haber was called the man who killed tens of thousands but saved billions.

[@AlexanderGoeres]

and don't forget the glorious invention by fritz haber: the usage of poisonous gaz in ww 1.

[@sirbonobo3907]

I dont know If this was a good Thing

[@MaticTheProto]

@@AlexanderGoeres by looking at it mathematically, he was still a saint. He helped create/save far more lives than those lost in ww1

[@nomaam9077]

Are these supposed to be the most important German inventions? The most important inventions are actually missing: Peter Henlein, inventor of the first portable clock (1511) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, inventor of the binary number system (1679) Johann Philipp Reis, inventor of the telephone (1860) Carl von Linde, inventor of the refrigerator (1873) Carl Benz, inventor of the automobile (1885) Otto Lilienthal, inventor of the airplane (1894) Manfred von Ardenne, inventor of the television (1928) Wernher von Braun, inventor of rocket technology (1936) Konrad Zuse, inventor of the computer (1941) Hans von Ohain, inventor of the turbine jet engine for aircraft (1942)

[@aw3s0me12]

*Process to make Sugar:* *Franz Carl Achard* developed a process to produce sugar from sugar beet. Built the first factory for the process in 1802.

[@aw3s0me12]

*C-Leg* It took a long time for the prosthetic leg to develop beyond the Long John Silver solution, but in *1997 the Lower Saxony-based Otto Bock HealthCare company* gave the *world’s pirate population the first completely microprocessor-controlled knee joint they had ever seen.* Since then the computer-controlled leg has facilitated the lives of countless amputees. The Otto Bock company says the leg needs around two months to adjust to a user’s unique gait, and it can allow different walking speeds. Sensors process information 50 times per second, adapting control to every situation. It also allows amputees to walk downstairs step over step, rather than one step at a time. C-legs have also been developed for amputations above and below the knee.

[@marcelkurz134]

There are a few i would consider more Important. For example the generator(dynamo) by siemens. The (axial) jet engine which is used in every passenger Airliner and jet. The radial concept was a british invention. It did work but did not catch on. The bycycle is a big one too. XRay should be considered as well. In Computer technology the first fully programmable computer, beforehand there were computers around already. Braunsche Röhre -> television.

[@Dan-fo9dk]

....except that the jet engine was invented in Norway by Ægidius Elling and was shown on world expo in Paris 1900. Him self pointed out that the materials available at that time could not withstand the temperatures in such an jet turbine. Max. temperature for available materials was 400 dgr Celsius. That same person invented the gas turbine in 1886.

[@red_dolphin468]

fun fact the very first coffe Filter was not paper, it was one of Melitta Benz´ tights.

[@vomm]

So it was more of a sexual, fetish thing?

[@Al69BfR]

@@vomm Only when they were used. Gave your coffee that special taste.

[@RalphH007]

@@vomm Everything is a fetish!

[@DominikKJakob]

literature says she first used blotting paper from her son's schoolwork and put them into cans with holes punched into the bottom

[@Eysenbeiss]

​@@DominikKJakob That's correct, even though that was just her first successful try, since she experimented with common paper first, but your know yourself what happend, when normal paper turns wet ....

[@Lodarus]

You were a bit to fast by ending the video ;) the greatest inventions are still wainting for you to watch :D

[@Concorde4711]

Inventions that americans claimed are american, but that actually are german. 1: Motor car. Often credited to Henry Ford, the first motor car was ceated in 1885 by Carl Benz. Ford 'only' streamlined the production, btw. in complete violation of the patent rights. 2: Airplane. Credited to the Wright brothers, they didn't invent the Airplane itself but the motorized flight instead, the airframe was an invention of Otto Lilienthal.

[@swanpride]

Also the Telefone, Alexander Bell was just the first guy who managed to patent it, and most of the Groundwork was laid in Germany. They also tend to credit space flight to the NASA, but honestly, it was mostly German scientist working for both the Americans and the Russians. Most inventions nowadays are a group efford anyway, but Germany is still pretty much up there. The country holds the most patents on the area of environment protection.

[@Concorde4711]

@@swanpride Most important person in the early spaceflight was Wernher von Braun. At first the americans dont want to work with von Braun and started to develop rockets on their own, but as they more or less failed to do so and the soviet Union went ahead in the space race, they hired von Braun and where able to catch up. Von Braun is also the reason why NASA, as an american organisation, does all calculations using the metric system.

[@swanpride]

@@Concorde4711 The other reason is that imperial is simply not precise enough. It causes minimal irregularities in a field were you can't afford them.

[@joergholzhauer3218]

​@@swanpridewhy is it not precisely? Its only a scaling Faktor between imperial and SI

[@safebet5841]

I am missing one of the biggest inventions. The first real computer from Konrad Zuse.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

To be fari, while Zuse was the first to develop a primitive working computer, his work didn't have much influence on the development of the actual computer, it was more of a parallel development than the later inventors of those computers that got developed further into our modern computers actually building on Zuse's work.

[@jancleve9635]

They forgot DIN (Deutsche Industie Normierung/ German Industy Standard). Most practical Idea ever.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

With the first DIN being a part of the MG 08/15 (Which is the father of the term 08-15 for boring or mundane stuff)

[@Cau_No]

About the electron microscope (a.k.a. Raster-Tunnel-Microscope): It works in a physically completely different way than the classic ones. As it doesn't use lightwaves, the pictures you get actually are computer generated, because there are no colors involved in the process. What doesn't help understanding is that during the narration the clips still show optical microscopes, and it also involves some quantum mechanics … What I also missed: Carl Benz building the first car Konrad Zuse building the first computer.

[@noergelstein]

A raster-tunnel-microscope is only one of several types and you actually do not need a computer to generate the images, otherwise they couldn't have been made in the 1930s. A scanning electron microscope kinda works like a tube TV, where instead of using the electron TV to project an image onto a plate, you shoot a beam onto your sample and measure for example scattered electrons (which would produce an electric signal in a nearby collector). If you simply use that signal and synchronize it to an oscilloscope or even just a black and white TV so that both the microscope and the display use the same pattern for the electron beam (one on the sample, the other on the screen), the image of the sample will appear on the screen. All analog, no computers needed.

[@Cau_No]

@@noergelstein Yes, but that compares like an old photo plate (the first photo taken almost 200 years ago) to modern digital cameras. Also you can't just put any object under the detector (which is in a vacuum), it has to be specially prepared. It might be interesting to find a video just about that technology.

[@HenriStosch]

an electron microsope is not a Raster-Tunnel--Microscope. Ruska and Börries invented the TEM (Transmission EM) while von Ardenne invented the SEM (Scanning EM).TEM works like a slide (dia positive) projector, while SEM uses the same idea like TV (von Ardenne inventied this too) and scans the surface of an object with an electron beam.

[@berlinman5409]

love all your reactions - I am from munich/germany and sometimes I even learn a lot from your reations :) - haha super great - thanks :)

[@MsKissbone]

@@quecksilberchen_ Kein Grund ausfallend zu werden.

[@fatc4t]

@@quecksilberchen_ Was machste dann hier wenn du seine Kommentare nicht hören willst?

[@jfernandezc2872]

Same here 😅👍 Grüße aus Heidelberg

[@n0wi153]

We made everything. Car, Bycicle, Television, Computer , Space Rocket, Mp3 Format, Thermometer, Radio Waves, And sooooooo much more

[@Eysenbeiss]

Radio Transmission, cause radio waves were made by the universe first ...

[@Eignerartig]

You even didn't watch the video until its end, so you missed the chip card by Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrup and the X-ray generator by Wilhelm Gonrad Röntgen 🙂 And there are many more German investitions... 😉 The TV by Manfred von Ardenne using... ... the cathode-ray tube by Karl Ferdinand Braun The automobile by Carl Benz The motorbike by Gottlieb Daimler The bicycle by Karl Freiherr von Drais The gasoline engine ("Otto engine") used in most nowadays cars by Nicolaus August Otto The Wankel engine by Felix Wankel The refrigerator by Carl von Linde The rocket by Wernher von Braun The thermometer by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit The binary system by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The globe by Martin Behaim The telefax by Rudolf Hell The programmable computer by Konrad Zuse The washing machine by Karl Louis Krauss The airbag by Walter Linderer The spark plug by Robert Bosch The navigation system for cars by the Robert Bosch company Blaupunkt The electric DC engine by Hermann Jacobi The electric AC engine by Werner von Siemens The electric generator by Werner von Siemens The dynamo by Werner von Siemens The tramway by Werner von Siemens The electric silver and gold plating by Werner Siemens The anti-lock braking system by Gerhard Bachmann The pocket watch by Peter Henlein The airship by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin The hang-glider / air glider by Otto von Lilienthal The geiger counter by Hans Geiger The wireless remote control by Robert Adler The light bulb by Heinrich Göbel The telephone by Johann Philipp Reis The 35 mm camera by Oskar Barnack (1925) The nuclear fission and atomic bomb by Otto Hahn The periodic table for chemistry by Julius Lothar Meyer The jeans by Levi Strauss The record player by Emil Berliner The aspirin by Felix Hoffmann The thermos bottle by Reinhold Burger The toothpaste by Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg The tea bag by Adolf Rambold The jet engine by Hans von Ohain The helicopter by Henrich Focke and many more... 🙂

[@lucin9443]

Don't forget Einstein. He was also born in Germany but moved to Swizz and USA

[@SpeedyBK]

But Einstein himself is more known for fundamental research. Of course many inventions would not be possible without his work, but he isn't that famous for inventing Stuff.

[@ja_u]

Surprised the Car by Karl Benz didn’t even make it on the list

[@TinyTeaKettle]

Who's using this 'car' thing anyway am I right ?!

[@MaticTheProto]

@@TinyTeaKettle ikr?

[@GroundBeatDe]

hi, there are so many "inventors" here in germany. bluetooth LC3 codec its also develop here in germany, fisher anchors, engines, fridges, cars, optical lenses, math things, toothpaste, ets, etc etc...im half german, i was born in southamerica and i was aware off many of this things, but now that im living in germany, i realize that there are so many things here that i didnt knew. The reason its that the state put so much effort, money in research and development of new technologies...its amazing. Nice video man.

[@swanpride]

Btw, the piece of paper Melitta used was a "Löschpapier" (Blotting paper? Not sure how to call it in english, but it is a paper which was used to soak up excess ink after writing, hence it was perfect to filter something, due to its special properties).

[@coolerfish5383]

Toothpaste was also invented in Germany: In the attic of his pharmacy, Ottomar von Mayernburg developed a remedy that everyone uses every day today: toothpaste. His product "Chlorodont" consisted of calcium carbonate, soap, glycerin, potassium chlorate and pumice. Garnished with a peppermint flavor - still the typical taste today. Crazy creations like a toothpaste with a radioactive active ingredient from the Berlin Auergesellschaft, on the other hand, fortunately did not catch on.

[@matthiasfleschutz1518]

Hi Ryan, love your reactions, learning a lot also about US perspectives. But one thing I missed: what made you start this channel and focus on German stuff? Really interested in hearing your Story!

[@DJone4one]

Yes, but that is only a small part of inventions. 1854 Heinrich Göbel invents the light bulb. Likewise, Philipp Reis invents the first telephone in 1859 and says into the phone: "The horse doesn't eat cucumber salad". 1879 Felix Hoffmann invents aspirin. 1886 Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz invent the first automobile. 1887 Emil Berliner invents the record player. 1894 Otto Lilienthal invents the glider. 1930 Manfred von Ardenne invents the television. 1941 Konrad Zuse invents the first computer.

[@Reaktanzkreis]

1930 Manfred von Ardenne invents the television....Paul Nipkow 1928

[@aw3s0me12]

*Light Bulb:* Although it is said that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, which is a lie! *Heinrich Göbel* invented the first (modern) light bulb in 1854 that could last up to 400 hours - whereas other inventors in that time couldn’t figure out how to keep the light bulb from burning out! He was born in Springe in Hannover. Göbel wanted to sell it to Edison but he did not wanted it. *After* Göbel died, Edison bought Göbels patent from the widow realy cheap, *and said HE* invented it,... a LIE*

[@BlissLovePeace]

Yeah, Edison was a f liar ...

[@andreasmetzger7619]

Gutenberg didn't invent the printing press, but he revolutionized printing with his movable letters. Before that you had one metal plate with your text on it. Gutenbergs method allowed you to form one text out of letters and after you finished you could change your text by changing the letters

[@Namotasso]

Right, because Chinese was the first and used silk printing.

[@Eysenbeiss]

Falsch, denn es geht um BUCHDRUCK, nicht um LETTERNDRUCK an sich, das ist ein gewaltiger Unterschied und deswegen haben es auch NICHT die Chinesen erfunden, da deren Methode eine symbolische Darstellung und zudem komplett unflexibel gewesen ist. Erst durch Gutenberg war die massenhafte Vervielfältigung möglich, was bei den Chinesen eben nicht der Fall gewesen ist, auch weil deren Holzvorlagen nach spätestens drei "Drucken" hinüber waren.

[@Linuxdirk]

Hey, Germans! What do you want to invent? Germans: Yes!

[@lookingforthemeaning]

Everyyyy Ting and Ten we will Take over th World Muuuhhh Haahhaahaa

[@tigerchen55]

the toothpaste and the oillamp were inventet in Saxony (Germany) vor example.

[@silkwesir1444]

Pretty sure both these things were "invented" lots of places, independently of each other.

[@katrinandrews79]

Also we invented the lightbulb, the computer, the car, the tram, motorcycle, x-rays, the telefone, the periodic system of elements, chipcards and many more.

[@steffenjonda8283]

about the telefone, the americans could get upset :)

[@arroe8386]

lightbulb, telephone and probably also car can hardly be attributed to one single inventor

[@steffenjonda8283]

You can belive what you want, but it was Daimler and Benz who basically at the same time invented the car. It was the telephone as we know it, just that later some americans made a huge thing out of it. SO, nope, they invented it. Period

[@arroe8386]

@@steffenjonda8283 Are you talking with me?

[@Warozelot]

Missing some big one's here like the car, bicycle, LCD-screens and computer

[@frankenreggaede]

MP3 was invented like 2Miles away from where I was grown up and as a teen I visit at a open door day this guys, did not thought what impact it will have to modern society, but since then I am a fan of MP3

[@claudiakarl7888]

Well, having a good school and university education without paying for it helps…

[@aw3s0me12]

*Jet engine:* This one might not do much for Germany’s environmental credentials, but the next time you go on holiday, you should thank the Germans that you aren’t wobbling through the lower atmosphere in a crate attached to a wheezing propeller. As with many major inventions, the development of the jet stretches over many decades (even centuries) and countries, but Hans van Ohain has one of the best claims. The German engineer began his own design for a jet engine in 1935. The idea took off - literally - when he met aircraft industrialist *Ernst Heinkel,* who immediately saw the potential. A series of prototypes reached their climax with a petrol-fuelled engine attached to a simple plane - the* "He 178,"* which had its maiden flight in the northeastern coastal town of *Rostock in August 1939.*

[@asaris_]

What, don't tell me you have an issue with the glorious ZEPPELIN! 😜

[@blondkatze3547]

When you see what the Germans had ivented, it`s really huge. The Bunsen burner always reminds me of my former school days in Physics class when our physics teacher showed an experiment with sulfur ,that was burned with the Bunsen burner and then the whole physics room was like that the sulfur stunk at all the windows had to be oppened for airing that was a crazy school time.🤣😷💞

[@grandmak.]

wasn't that chemistry ?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And the principle is so simple. One of these inventions where in hindsight you have to wonder why nobody came up with it earlier. And the carburetor is somewhat related in how it works.

[@hevog]

Not to forget the car, the computer and the TV, all German inventions.

[@atdynax]

What are you doing? There are two items left. Number two the chip card and number one the X-ray generator.

[@chrismuller9289]

oh so much is missing... jet propulsion, rocket technology, x-ray technology, the dual number system, the first wallpaper paste you can mix yourself, the teddy bear, the washing machine, refrigerator, thermos flask, the zeppelin, the spark plug, toothpaste, dowels, television technology, magnetic levitation, nylon stockings, Color TV, computer, scanner, Polaroid instant camera, telephone, periodic table, dynamo, 35mm camera, nuclear fission, dynamite, chip card, airbag, bicycle, contact lenses, record player and microphone, helicopter, and be very brave: jeans and lots and lots more more...

[@alihorda]

top 10 list, can't fit everything

[@vomm]

It's a Top 10 not a Top 10000

[@chrismuller9289]

@@vomm hey hey, relax ;) These top ten's are subjective lists of the creators... I didn't mean to criticize his video, I just happily point out that there are far more interesting and far-reaching inventions from Germany ;) Guys, this is KZbin, we're not in a PhD competition ;)

[@henrywilt6377]

Yes, there is much more, but we have to allow the others their part. That's why I have to be a bit petty. Dynamite was developed by the Swede Alfred Nobel in 1866, and you can really argue about the computer.

[@Dan-fo9dk]

...except that the jet engine was invented in Norway long before Germans "invented" it.

[@nikitaeurope]

There is a long list of things that are missing in this top 10: The Germans invented: 🚗 Car, 🚲 Bicycle, Motorcycle 🏍️, Helicopter 🚁, Jet Engine of Airplanes ✈️, Rocket 🚀, Diesel and Electric Engine, Hangglider, X-Ray Machine, Radio 📻 and TV 📺, the Record Player 💿, Tape Recorder 📼, MP3 Player, Microchip Card, 📞 Telephone, Camera 📸, the 💊 Pill, Aspirin, the Computer 💻 (Konrad Zuse 1941), Scanner, Airbag (Invention by Mercedes Benz just like the first 🚗 car), the Koffiefilter, Toothpaste etc

[@zombee0036]

xray and mp3 are in the video, he just didnt wait long enough for xray and computer chips :D

[@Dan-fo9dk]

....except that the jet engine was invented in Norway.....

[@Dan-fo9dk]

Your reply comment do, for some unknown reason, not appear in the main comment area .....maybe it just flew away with some jet engines. I must say that the talk of when a jet engine was taken in use for the first time to power a plane is a total different discussion/different matter, then what the original issue of who invented the jet engine. You stated that the jet engine was invented in Germany....and I disagree..... The jet engine was actually invented in Norway by Ægidius Elling and was shown on world expo in Paris in 1900. Him self pointed out that the materials available at that time could not withstand the temperatures in such an jet turbine. Max. temperature for available materials was 400 dgr Celsius. That same person invented the gas turbine in 1886. Hence he invented the principle of a jet turbine, but was not able, due tech at that time, to build a functioning one. Einstein was the one to come up with/developed the understanding of complicated physics ....but could not prove most of his theorems due to the fact that the technological advancement was far from being ready for such tasks . Still he rightfully has been credited for his groundbreaking works for the base principles of physics. The same principle of crediting the one who first developed the ideas should also be the guideline for others work.

[@udornyc]

Fun Fact: I think it's at MIT that have science and engineering departments that are so filled with German scientists, that MIT (?) banned speaking German, so that the two or three American scientists/engineers don't feel left out!

[@simmylein81]

5:40 It's because of our language. Having those composita (putting nouns together to specify things as far as we want) we start to think in a very detailing way from our early childhood on. We can almost specify whatever we want natively, so that's the way we think. This is why there are so many great German engineers... and no good German politicians. ;)

[@Al69BfR]

You missed the last two inventions, I think. The coffee filter was number 3.

[@tonitoday93]

As a German I am very proud. But also a little bit sad because our country didn't invented important things in the last 10-20 years.. :/

[@schattenwolf2044]

German Inventions For Locomotion -Car -Bicycle -Taxi -Space rocket

[@PhantasialandInfo]

Hi from Germany, one big invention was not in the video the X-Rays were invented by William Conrath Röntgen

[@vomm]

The difference between Germans then and now: In the past: Clever inventors. Today: Think X-rays are an invention.

[@pavelmacek282]

@@vomm just out of curiosity, how many languages do you speak, that you are making fun of someone whose mother tongue is not English?

[@vomm]

@@pavelmacek282 You mean he can't translate the German word "Maschine" to "Machine"? Yes, really elite education is necessary! Translating "Röntgenstrahlen" into X-Rays on the other hand can be done by any first grader.

[@pavelmacek282]

@@vomm sorry that I don´t follow but who/what are you talking about - in the text you reacted to is nowhere to be found the word "machine" in neither of those two languages and the use of X-ray in an EN context is absolutely ok...?!

[@vomm]

@@pavelmacek282 Isn't that the point, smart guy? The X-ray machine was invented, not X-rays.

[@JakobFischer60]

How Germany does it? Mandatory school for all kids since 1717 (Prussia), free university for all that qualify, vocational training on the job, almost free schools for adults (Volkshochschule), etc. Germany is a country of training. While american kids are working at McDonalds, german kids are at some kind of school.

[@einstein0120]

I worked in the university institute that invented LEDs

[@davidius74]

Scrolling through the comments I am surprised no-one has pointed out that Ryan didn't watch the whole video and there was 2 more to go after that, the chip card (or microchip) and also the X-ray. I think you got confused when the video was thanking you for watching but the Coffee Filter was Number 3 and you can clearly see there are 2 more segments after that as well. As always though, it is good watching your reactions.

[@MrSchwamm]

Imagine not mentioning the computer, one of the most important inventions of all time. LMAO but the coffee filter xD

[@TessaractAlemania-hd7tv]

Sympathic reactions, Ryan, and thx for this video ;) Yes, it's so clear: without all this superb german inventions, we wouldn't have a modern world. I want to add 3 other very unknown genius inventions of the germans: At the end of the 90's they discovered the possiblity to store data holographically on a scotch tape roll, and invented the fiber optic computer. In the 30's they invented methods for boundary layer suction on wings, to reduce drag.

[@KalmerVT]

You missed number 2 and 1 :D

[@bebu0815]

Me as a german am proud

[@olofsan]

if you watch a top 10 facts video, why do you only look at 8 facts ?

[@derpapito1391]

Gutenberg did not invent the printing press, he added the printing board with interchangeable letters.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

which made it possible to print books in large quantities... which is the only reason the european population actually got to read...

[@SeiichirouUta]

...and which made it possible for Luther to publish his translation of the bible and spread his ideas to the wider public. If it hadn't been for this new type of printing press, the Reformation might never have happened. And what impact that had on human history... all inventions so far since then pale.

[@derpapito1391]

By the way, it was not my intention to lessen the value of Gutenberg's invention, I just wanted to clarify that he did not invent the printing press itself. I am a child of the Gutenberg town Mainz myself and we Meenzer sure are proud of him

[@johnnyringo80]

Funny thing not to mention the invention of the Computer by Konrad Zuse, but I find it extremely hilarious that we also randomly see an X-ray picture in the opening (granted, that was more of a discovery than an invention, but still). And then there are also some inventions missing from a certain historic period like jet engines and rocket technology, but yeah, we certainly don't like to talk about that.

[@cjane_world]

What about number 2 and 1? 😭

[@mutajin7701]

My favourite German inventions are: Baby formula and chemical fertilizer. These inventions alone saved millions if not billions of lifes.

[@p3chv0gel22]

Fun fact for electron Microscopes: IBM once made "The smallest movie", called "A boy and his atom", a short stop motion movie with a Resolution of (if i remember correctly) 32 by 18 atoms, where they manipulated a few carbon atoms to create a stick figure, that does some stuff and filmed it via a electron microscope

[@redunicorngaming]

Hey! You missed number 2 and 1 and now I'm curious ... 😅

[@jorgevogele6006]

The inventor of the electronic microscope, Ernst Ruska, was the doctoral advisor of my father in law, later an full proffessor. As far as i heart, a very kind man.

[@spirwes64]

The list is way to short! After all, I think it is time to say "Thank you, Germany"!

[@TessaractAlemania-hd7tv]

Thank you spirwes :)

[@-_Sebastian_-]

The Jeans by Levi Strauss born in Buttenheim (Bavaria) which is now everyone wearing. The bicycle 1817 in Mannheim by Karl Drais and so many many more...

[@martinaklee-webster1276]

Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen invented the X Ray. He used the Hand of his Wife. When she saw the picture,she was scared and said" I have seen Death " Greetings from Germany

[@zombee0036]

fun fact: the xray is in the video but he didnt finish it :D

[@boelwerkr]

Three things makes a country good in inventing stuff. 1. Knowledge oriented culture and history with as little taboos as possible. 2. Good education. 3. Money to pursue every imaginable idea.

[@vomm]

There are dozens if not hundrets or thousands more things. How do you come up with three of all things? Watched too many Toplist shows?

[@LoFiAxolotl]

as a german... no it doesn't... great minds makes people good at inventing stuff... that they're from germany is merely statistics... as a eurocentric society.... and germany being the most populated area at that time in europe... it's just more likely that they're from germany...

[@asaris_]

@@LoFiAxolotl Funniest thing is that a good bunch of German inventions were made before there (technically speaking) even was a Germany. 🤣

[@Ida-fz3ir]

- letterpress - Johannes Gutenberg - Diesel motor - Rudolf Diesel - Optic - Carl Zeiss - clocks...(esp. basilica...) - ...1000s more...

[@miwove]

Did you just miss no 2 and no 1 ?! With that much attention spend you will never be an inventor. :D

[@mattertrohn7158]

The Computer is for me the biggest invention in Germany in the close past

[@skandalf9726]

dude, i am sure you had a machine with an electron-beam in it in your childhood. your old tv. those with the glass tube... there was also an electron beam illuminating the phosphor at the back of the glass. pixel by pixel, row by row ^^

[@k3nb055]

You skipped the last two inventions of the video, number 2 are computer chips and number 1 is the x-ray machine

[@ainidirieiais]

At the end of the day... the Brezel is the best invention, isn't?

[@aw3s0me12]

But WHO invented it? Swabians or Bavarians? >> The endless War of Brezels 😏

[@ainidirieiais]

@@aw3s0me12 🤷‍♂

[@lordvoldemord5732]

Dry Gin is from Hanau,the first sun lamp came from hanau(Tan/sun studio),the sugar shaker (1953)

[@ovrpeekbanana929]

We love you keep going my friend :) Greetings from Germany

[@rhythmharmony2923]

„Melitta“ is the name of this coffee filter brand. It is very well known. I‘m actually sitting here, watching this video and drinking coffee, brewed with a „Melitta“ filter. ☕️

[@bavarianbarbarian2443]

Diesel-Engines dont have 75% efficiency, thats BS. The original diesel-engine probably has 7.5% efficiency but for sure not 75%. This number comes from the theoretical Carnot-Process, which has never been recreated. This video seems poorly researched. Good modern Diesel engines have efficiencies in the range of 40%. Greetings from a german combustion engine engineer

[@norrinradd2364]

It depends how you define your efficiency and in what kind of configuration your engine is working. A modern diesel engine like a MAN or Wärtsilä in a CHP power plant (Combined Heat and Power = KWK-Anlage) where you use the mechanical and heat energy the fuel efficiency can reach up to 90% and more. Greetings from a german process engineer for power plant technology to his colleague 😉.

[@bavarianbarbarian2443]

@@norrinradd2364 Greetings back. Youre right, you can widen the scope of your thermodyamic system to include heat losses as usable energy for heating like in a CHP. But im sure Rudolf Diesel didnt do that. His goal was an efficient engine that converts fuel in to mechanical energy. Which makes the 75% just wrong. By the way, he also discovered that a carnot engine has a high efficiency, but also a very poor power density, which makes it unusable for the purpose of supplying mechanical energy efficiently. And by efficiently i mean in a broader definition, not just thermodynamics.

[@norrinradd2364]

@@bavarianbarbarian2443 I'm not sure the 75% efficiency are wrong because they said he developed and used the engine in a heat/cooling process not as car propulsion. Therfore it's really possible that he reached for this process this efficiency.

[@bavarianbarbarian2443]

@@norrinradd2364 I watched that part again. An they said, that he worked at a ice plant in paris. I googled it and he actually worked there before his diesel-engine idea. And it also does not mention him combining his engine with cooling or heating. Wikipedia says his first engine had a efficiency of 26.2%, which seems reasonable. I dont think they worked on anything like a CHP, they probably had enough work ahead in improving their engine.

[@norrinradd2364]

@@bavarianbarbarian2443 thanks for your efforts to clarify this. Probably you're right. I don't know the historical background and what came first. The journalistic quality of videos like this a la 'ten most ... things... whoever made!' usually aren't the best. Have a nice one 👍

[@thomasp.5057]

These ones come to my brain: - Nicolaus August Otto invented internal combustion engine for gasoline - Konrad Zuse made the world's first programmable computer Z3 - Johann Philipp Reis constructed the first make-and-break telephone - Otto Lilienthal was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, the basic of planes. - Wernher von Braun was leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and later a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States. - Heinrich Hertz first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves - Joseph von Fraunhofer invented the spectroscope PLUS: - Berlin people claim that Herta Heuwer has invented the currywurst😂

[@fatc4t]

You forgott: The Computer, X-Ray, Television, Remote Control, The Car,

[@vomm]

He did not make the video he just reacted to it

[@InspektorDreyfus]

Haber Bosch ammoniac synthesis? Without that at least 2/3 of the world population wouldn't have been born.

I think he forgot that that 1st automobile was a Benz Patent Motor Car, model no. 1

[@eisenritter7805]

Many colored microscope pictures ARE computer "generated". They are given color later to make the picture more clear and appealing. Most particles that small have very faint color that you can't see without editing the brightness, opacity, etc. in a photo editing program. An atom isn't even able to have any color at all because it's smaller than the wavelength of visible light. You can only "see" it by beaming electrons on it and catching the reflection.

[@HenriStosch]

all images from either TEM or SEM are gray scale. The olor isused to seperate differrnt properties or just to make it look good. In a TAM you don't see the reflection of an atom, you basically see its shadow or deflecion it creates. And yes a single atom can be seen and charcterized (type of element)

[@christophostrowski3382]

Aaand Rocketengines and Jetengines too!

[@semiramisubw4864]

Also the first stealth bomber/plane the Horten, this design is still used by the US to this day after they "acquired" it with operatrion paperclip.

[@spitefulwar]

That is debunked.

[@clausstahl5166]

The MOST succsessful german invention by far is the "Dübel" (dowel)

[@MhLiMz]

Hey, you stopped at number 3. What about number 2 and 1??

[@Jayarbal]

Airplane? Automobile? Skyrocket? Jet engine? Computer? Washing machine? Spark plug? Maglev train? Helicopter? Dynamo? Lighter? Vinyl disc? Roentgen? Binary system? What's with all this good stuff?

[@SilvanaDil]

In the past 32 years reunified Germany has racked up a *fairly* impressive 25 Nobel laureates. The UK has racked up 47 in that time span. The USA has racked up 206 in that time span. (Those darn Brits still *barely* squeaking past the USA on a per capita basis.)

[@norrinradd2364]

How many of the scientists in the US have a migration background because their were bought in? The community of scientists are very multicultural and they barley think of them self as British, US American or German in their daily work. They go there where they find the best conditions for their studies. Usually the nations claim the nobel prizes as the result of their efforts and money to justify the billions for research. The average Joe and Jane, John Bull and Michel then claiming full of national pride this as their merits but usually with absolutely no clue what's the object of the research was nor how it works. It's a little bit like in sports when the adipose supporters of a national team are concluding physical superiority or superiority in general because of the win from their team.

[@SilvanaDil]

@@norrinradd2364 - Sour rapes much? (The USA is a nation of migrants. It says something that the best, the risk takers, come here.)

[@BlissLovePeace]

yeah, money talks ...

[@asaris_]

Ah, don't blame us for being too busy with improving and producing kinda all of the shit needed to invent and produce all of the "flashy, famous new inventions". 🤷‍♀️

[@maxw2974]

Ok, I have to ask: why are you so infatuated with us?😂😂

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

By the way, the first night vision device was developed and mass-produced in Germany, the system was called Vampire.

[@MaticTheProto]

„Vampir“

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

@@MaticTheProto I have translated it

[@KingLeni1]

Hey Ryan, little fun fact about Germany: Did you know that when we are 14 we can drink beer with someone else around (like our parents) and when we are 16 we can buy/drink it ourselves?

[@silkwesir1444]

Not _anyone_ though, it has to be your parents / legal guardians, or at least somebody your parents or legal guardians have appointed to watch over you (has to be in writing iirc).

[@KingLeni1]

@@silkwesir1444 that is, why i said (like our parents)

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

It's a little like getting your drivers license in the US. First, once you are 14, you are allowed to practise drinking under the supervision of a parent or guardian. Then, once you are 16, you are allowed to get drunk by yourself...

[@alexanderpoplawski577]

10 when no one is around 😉

[@leichtmeister]

Nothing we should be especially proud of...

[@christineheron8775]

Gutenberg is from Mainz, which is pronounced like "mines", not "mayns". I actually studied at the Johannes Gutenberg university in Mainz in 1996 and now one of my daughters is studying there as well.

[@jensschroder8214]

Who invented the crib? I think this was a couple from Nazareth named Joseph and Maria. These were not at home when the first son Jesus was born. He later became an important rabbi and founded his own sect: Christianity

[@andreamuller9009]

Moses already had his own wicker basket...and I think Mr. and Mrs. Neanderthals didn't want to keep waking up the baby when they wanted to cuddle a little....there was probably a fur-lined version of a nice one warm place by the fire.😅

[@SFoX-On-Air]

We also invented the first transistor with an p-n junction. So basically the the, hands down, most basic thing of microelectronics. Also, Konrad Zuze invented the first Computer. Maybe you heard of this thing somewhere. Lots of peeps out there already own a computer, its fancy these days

[@Reaktanzkreis]

The first Transistor was developed in the Technical University of Berlin 1936. But the germans did not named in Transistor. They call crystal triode, a trode with no heater and low operating voltage. Leader of the experiments was Dr. Gerhard. But 1936 was a bad year for innovations like this. Television was the main interest for all scientists as telefunken and the Reichspost prepare live transmissios for the olympic games. Yes, and the german engineer Dr. Bruch build the worlds first eletronic TV-camera. The results of the "crystal triode experiments were published in the univerity reports and find its way into the bell laboratories.

[@McGhinch]

Critique about the original video: He terribly butchers German names.

[@blackjack6406]

The microscope pictures are colored by hand.

[@diesteinerevolution5376]

They forgot the jet engine. In my opinion it is more important than the coffe filter.

[@tychobra1]

You still owe us no.2 and no.1 from the list 😀