American Reacts to 10 German Inventions That Changed The World..

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[@BomberFletch31]

I can't believe that this video missed out the most obvious German invention of all: the motor car. Karl Friedrich Benz was granted a patent for his "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" in 1885. He is the same Benz that founded Benz & Cie, which later merged with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft to form Daimler-Benz, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz.

[@d34d10ck]

The most important to me will always be the rocket engine. Just because it was invented as a weapon doesn't make it less impressive in my opinion. I don't even want to imagine where we would be today without rockets.

[@stampcollector74]

^You should not forget the bicycle (or at least it's predecessor: draisine), remote control or the TV. ~_~ [etc.]

[@marcel.s7493]

Yeb I think the same

[@aliti9315]

also the first functioning computer and aspirin should have been on the list as well :D

[@manub.3847]

File folders (often also called Leitz folders) and matching hole punches are also among the German inventions. known drug: aspirin

[@bas1330]

Somehow I would have expected to see Konrad Zuse in the list... "With his development of the Z3 in 1941, Zuse built the first functioning, fully automatic, program-controlled and freely programmable computer that worked in binary floating-point arithmetic, and thus the world's first functioning computer. "

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

You are not alone, on this list...

[@Bunny99s]

@@ThomasVWorm That's completely true. Though a lot of things were then "invented" much earlier. For example Leonardo da Vinci invented the automobile as well as many other things. However at that time there was no way to build any of those things. As it is in almost all science disciplines you build upon the work that came before you. Personally, as a programmer myself, I really like Ada's story. It's incredible that she essentially wrote programs / developed algorithms for a machine that didn't exist at that time, just in theory. Though there's always a huge difference in knowing the theory and actually building something. We can see a similar thing with quantum computing and fusion. We know almost all the theory about it, but with our current technology we can't really build them. I think the largest quantum computer has just about 433 qubits (IBM) and most of them are more a proof of concept and research builds. They can barely be used for anything practical yet. With fusion we're not even that close to commercial use as some want you to believe. Currently all fusion experiments consume more energy than what you get out. In that field we're only doing some fundamental research. Though since those technologies are much more complicated it's extremely expensive to even build the most rudimentary setup. So there are essentially two parts to almost any invention: The theoretical idea and concept and how to actually implement it practically. What's amazing about Konrad Zuse is that he built the Z3 on his own in the living room or his parent's flat out of spare parts and it worked. Though people should not focus too much on individual persons. A huge portion of Einstein's special theory of relativity was not discovered by him. As already said, we build on the knowledge that others have discovered before. Einstein essentially combined several concepts and developed several formulas so that (almost) everything fall into place and fit together. Though we know that it's not the end of the story yet as relativity and the standard model of particle physics (quantum mechanic) is not compatible with each other. That's what theoretical physicists work on at the moment to come up with a new theory / concept that actually explains both at the same time.

[@Thisandthat8908]

You need 20 different qualifierss when you talke about "firsts" in computers. Electronic or programmable or digital or.... By some definitions it was Zuse by others it was not. Given the pretty shallow depth of biographical and technical details in the video that would have been way too complicated. Of course it's more often than not the case that you can not nail down a invention to a single person or point in time. The discussion on first computers or also lightbulbs are great examples.

[@MyAnno1404]

He build it - but the concept was there already

[@gedeuchnixan3830]

@@Bunny99s It´s not true it wasn´t possible at DaVinci´s time, the fact that quite some of his inventions were build exactly the way he would have done it and are fully working as intended sais different. His problem was: building things costs money and he didn´t had any and couldn´t find sponsors for most of his inventions, there was no kickstarter back than.

[@dschoas]

If you think about it: not only the Diesel engine was developed by a German, but also the Otto engine for gasoline.

[@ray-sattler]

And the wankel engine and the jet engine

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

@@ray-sattler Germany was the first to adopt a jet powerd airplane into its force, but the thing was not invented in germany.

[@TheDude50447]

All commonly used internal combustion engines around the world are german inventions. Otto, Diesel, Wankel and turbine.

[@skdKitsune]

@@hernerweisenberg7052 It was. Ohain built the first practical jet engine and perfected the concept, which was nothing too new in theory. Turbine engines had been around for a long time and theories about them for even longer.

[@nomaam9077]

The coffee filter was probably more of a joke, but the really important German inventions are 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) Felix Wankel, inventor of the Wankel engine (1932) 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, Turbine jet engine for aircraft (1942)

[@FredFromJupiter]

Not of the airplane, he invented the glider.

[@nomaam9077]

He discovered the wing profile and thus the lift that makes flying possible in the first place. Even the Wright brothers appreciate that.

[@Whiteknuckle157]

Also missing is Werner von Siemens' electric generator and motor.

[@boerbenlp8659]

I think what Zuse invented, was not the computer (automated processing of calulations) in general, but he made the first machine, which was programmable. So it was not focused on specific calculations or built for just one job. But I guess this is more or less what we would call a computer nowadays :D

[@losconflictoshh1981]

Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, inventors of the Haber-Bosch process to synthesize Ammonia (1911)

[@Nikioko]

Around 1900, the German Empire was the most advanced country in the world in terms of science and engineering. Just look at the number of Nobel laureates in physics and chemestry up to WWII. However, the society was quite conservative, although Germany was the first country with a mandatory social security system (health insurance, accident insurance, pension insurance), introduced by Bismarck in 1883.

[@jyuvgrace5364]

What do you mean"however they were conservative ", as if that's a bad thing? They were so advanced exactly because they were conservative and homogeneous.

[@Nikioko]

@@jyuvgrace5364 Because it was a bad thing. While France was a republic and Britain a parliamentary republic, the German society was quite absolutistic, which no interest in putting more power into the hands of the parliament and the people.

[@11everhard]

@@Nikioko That is simply not true. Due to the standards of that time, Germany was democratic an modern state, with no abolutism at all. The "Emperor" was not an abolutist king. The name, according to the constitution, was only the name for the President of the Federation.

[@gregoryexplorer5095]

​@@NikiokoDude, just because they were called Emperors (Kaiser) does not mean they were crazy tyrannical pharaohs 😂 German Empire was a constitutional monarchy. means Reichstag (with more than 300 members) was the actual government of the country.

[@n0wi153]

The Car, The Bicylce, The Computer, SpaceRocket, Hang Glyder, Thermometer, and so much more ....

[@Spabsa]

I thought the Brit’s invented the computer

[@Nikioko]

@@Spabsa The electronic computer was invented by Konrad Zuse. Charles Babbage invented the Analytical Machine, which was mechanical.

[@Spabsa]

@@Nikioko so I’m still confused. If that’s true what are the Americans credited for on the computer? The transistor? The Personal Computer?

[@Nikioko]

@@Spabsa I don't know. The first home computer? However, Konrad Zuse built the Z3 in 1941, which was, according to Wikipedia: “the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Konrad Zuse has often been suggested as the inventor of the computer.” The transistor is a semiconductor electronic component which was first patented by Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, who was Austro-Hungarian.

[@Spabsa]

@@Nikioko I’m seeing it was the Z1, not the Z3. In the late 30s. Also the US Army is credited with with the invention of the Electronic Numerical Integrator. It was called ENIAC. The first PC. It came in 1946. (Probably from German scientists docs, after the war) there were others around at the time that had similar features. This was the first that had them all in one package. Still was a tank and costed a lot. But these big computers were being sold to universities and the military. Then of course you have the transistor, then the integrated circuit, finally the microprocessor then by the 1970s Silicon Valley gets its name. And the real personal Computer is born. You know who’s to say all of this wouldn’t have happened in Germany? The war took everything from Europe and all the capital and investment went to the US. Along with Germanys best and brightest.

[@peterplotts1238]

I was an exchange student at the Universitaet Würzburg and attended a class at the medical school where Professor Roentgen invented the x-ray machine. Later, back home in Texas, I had to go to the doctor and on the wall of the examining room was a picture of Roentgen demonstrating his invention to medical students.

[@andreaslindenau1190]

What you always call "x-rays" is in Germany only called " let us make a Röntgen -Aufnahme of the leg,I think it IS broken".To honour Prof Röntgen we only call them "Röntgenstrahlung" and never x-rays .He received one of the first Nobel-prices (Physics) ever ! And millions of Doctors produce them every day for urgend diagnostics of e.g. fractures even during operations and to repair the bones.

[@xtwxtw]

There are so many more German inventions First Car by Benz First real rocket by Braun First Computer by Zuse First Telephone by Reis (20 years before Bell) First Lightbulb by Göbel (25 years before Edison) First hypersonic aircraft by Messerschmidt (ME262) First aircraft by Lilienthal First television by Ardenne Theory of relativity by Einstein Motorbike, Aspirin, Generator, nuclear energy and so on… By the way - you are wearing a jeans ? Levi Strauss 👍

[@Bialy_1]

First Car by French Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot First Electric Car by French Gustave Trouvé And now we planing to ban the German invention and go back to the few years older invented by that French inventor. and few years after the first Benz car the most popular type of car was also electric... First computer by English Charles Babbage First telephone: "The first inventor of a telephone was Phillip Reis of Germany only musical not articulating. The first person to publicly exhibit a telephone for transmission of articulate speech was A. G. Bell. The first practical commercial telephone for transmission of articulate speech was invented by myself. Telephones used throughout the world are mine and Bell's. Mine is used for transmitting. Bell's is used for receiving." Lightbulb: In 1840, British scientist Warren de la Rue enclosed a coiled platinum filament in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it (14 years before Göbel) First hypersonic aircraft The North American X-15. First aircraft by Montgolfier brothers 1783 (108 years before Lilienthal first flight). The first demonstration of the instantaneous transmission of images was by Georges Rignoux and A. Fournier in Paris in 1909. (and btw inventor of the Nipkow Disk 1884 was from Kaszubian family -> Polish). In May 1914, Archibald Low gave the first demonstration of his television system at the Institute of Automobile Engineers in London. He called his system 'Televista'. -> 17 year before mentioned by you Ardenne. Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis - his year of miracles -> 1905 -> so only 9 years after this Jewish guy moved from Germany to Switzerland to study, work and teach there... And btw Messerschmidt 262 engines were so crapy that even Soviets instantly droped them and copied British design as British developed jet engine first and the design was much more efficient and reliable(and Me 262 was not even supersonic so a good try with claiming that it was hipersonic...🤣)

[@foghather]

The ME262 had a max velocity of 560 mph, so it was not hypersonic at all (a term that is used for mach 5 and above), but still at subsonic level.

[@reinhard8053]

@@Bialy_1 Babbage published the first idea for something like a computer but didn't build (or let build) anything working.

[@Xxhenrik96xX]

@@Bialy_1 First combustion engine car (which we still use, unlike steam) was made by a german. Just like any of the combustion engine types that we are or were recently using( Otto, Diesel, Wankel)

[@sangfroidian5451]

This could have been a top 1000, Germany has always been one of the major driving forces of the world.

[@dirkdriessen1133]

There were around 20 essential inventions. new manufacturing methods and working material necessary for Carl Benz to bring his first car onto the road, like spark plug, ignition, rectifier coil, resonance exhaust, cross hatching, all invented by other germans.

[@Windwalker665]

In fact, this was Germany in the past. These times are over, I‘m sure. 😢

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

@@Windwalker665 meanwhile Germany being consistently in the top 3 of the most innovative economies in the world… Germany is still extremely innovative, it’s just that the rest of the world has largely caught up in many areas

[@matthiash.4670]

@@Windwalker665 what's a most importent innovation can only be juged in furture, and as of there perspective in the past. You can, in most time, not imagine what kind of innovation will be world changing. But in fact mybe the mRNA therapy first used for COVID my be this kind of invention, we are look back on in the furtue.

[@Windwalker665]

@@matthiash.4670 With children who can not read nor write there is no more future for german innovations. If you would like to be a cyborg, then mRNA may be good for you, but it‘s not good for humans.

[@mondexponent2126]

The automobile , the computer , the jeans. So many things missing on that list :D

[@derauditor5748]

Löb Strauß aka Levi Strauss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss

[@Nikioko]

The MP3 format wasn't invented by Fraunhofer, it was invented by Karlheinz Brandenburg, who worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen.

[@klamin_original]

And all inventions you do during your work in German institutions automatically makes it belong to the institution, not the inventor. That's part of the contracts. Besides that, what did you imply with "it wasn't invented by Fraunhofer"? Of course it was invented by a person, institutions can't "invent" stuff, people do :D

[@nomaam9077]

These 74 institutes and research facilities are named after Joseph von Fraunhofer. However, he has been dead for 200 years.

[@tabbycat6802]

@@klamin_original Fraunhofer was also a person, he invented the spectroscope (which definitely belongs on this list).

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

Before Rodolph Diesel I expected to see Nicolaus Otto the inventor of the 4 stroke gasoline engine plus Mr Daimler and Mr Benz for inventing the car (independently but at the same time) not long after Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach invented the motorcycle.

[@nightstorm5914]

dont forget first hybrid engine by Ferdinand Porsche and Rotary Engine by Felix Wankel

[@the_retag]

DEUTZER MOTORENFABRIK

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

@@nightstorm5914 The main achievement of the Wankel engine is that it bankrupted NSU. Not sure if that counts as 'world changing'.

[@chrisr25071]

Otto did‘t invented the otto engine, he just bought the patent of the real inventor reithmann. That is the reason he will never be on that lists.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

@@chrisr25071 BS

[@TomRuthemann]

Even before the Second World War, the first attempts at video telephony took place in Germany using a method developed by Georg Oskar Schubert. In 1936, the first public television intercom service was introduced between Berlin, Leipzig, Nuremberg and Munich. At that time, it was possible to make video calls to each other from public television intercoms.

[@TheyCalledMeT]

by far the most important invention ever, the Haber-Bosch process a method to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas on an industrial scale. it changed the world, before this invention we where BARELY able to feed more than 1bil people

[@HG_Budde]

It's just so damn funny.. When the video mentioned the cassette player, you it seemed like you just went: "So what, nobody uses it anymore.." and then mp3 came along. 😂

[@Nikioko]

What is missing: - the electronic computer, invented by Konrad Zuse - the telephone, invented by Philipp Reis - the Otto engine, invented by Nicolaus Otto - the automobile, invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz - the rocket engine, invented by Wernher von Braun etc...

[@felix_onfire3463]

125 years ago, an earth-shattering technical idea became reality in Cologne. In 1876, Nicolaus August Otto created the world's first viable four-stroke engine. Through the N.A. Otto triggered motor impulse, the social and economic life changed decisively.

[@Medley3000]

Strange selection, I think there are many more: -the bicycle -painkiller -contact lenses -glider -helicopter -jeans -jet engine -motorcycle -record player -refrigerator -scanner -TV set -thermos flask -toothpaste -dynamo -tram -spark plug -tea bag -programmable computer -contraceptive pill -dowel -airbag -western concert flute -gyrocompass -electric elevator -highway

[@derxer614]

Unfortunately he he really had trouble pronouncing Röntgen, but what's interesting to know is that X-ray in German is actually called Röntgen-ray after its inventor.

[@antonstoeckl3689]

Even the Russian call it Roentgen

[@andreamuller9009]

That will probably be why English speakers say X-ray...they just can't pronounce Roentgen properly....

[@MrJaniman12]

@@antonstoeckl3689 Not Great, not terrible

[@JBOGermany]

Even many German speakers call it Rönchen instead of Röntgen. Röntgen himself called the x-rays "X-Strahlen"! They named the Ray's later by Röntgen's Name

[@McGhinch]

He butchered all German names.

[@tramper42]

Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) is a novel organic compound that does not occur in nature, and was first successfully synthesised in 1899. In 1897, scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer (City Leverkusen in Germany) …

[@11everhard]

Mrs. Melitta Bentz is a tribute to the quota for women... What is forgotten (at least) is the car by Benz, the Otto engine, Habers synthetic ammonia fertilizer and the the chiller by Linde. And, last not least, synthetic colours and Aspirin by Bayer. Oh yes. And the TV.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

5:52 (pushes up glasses) It’s actually ‘YOHANN Gootinburg’.

[@eagle1de227]

don't bother, they also smashed Wilhelm Röntgen...

[@pkorobase]

the selection of the top 10 is really a matter of taste. you could also have named the invention of fertilizers for agriculture by Justus von Liebig, or the invention of cooling by Carl von Linde (for brewing beer :) ), or the Otto Motor (being the other way to drive cars) by Niicolaus Otto, ... and many more :)

[@AleaumeAnders]

Or the selective breeding of the sugar root, the plant responsible for the death of most humans. ;)

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Joel being overwhelmed and overjoyed simultaneously by the inventions is basically my childhood summarised lol I had a book called ‘The Big Book of Inventions’.

[@joerggrohne64]

And to be more up to date: first working covid-19 test (Christian Drostens research group at the Charite in Berlin), a working vaccine against covid-19 (Biontech together with Pfizer). Some others: The bicycle, named at that time Draisine (Karl von Drais), the bra (Hugo Schindler/patent Christine Hardt), Television by Paul Nipkow, Ferdinand Braun, Max Dieckmann, Manfred von Ardenne and many, many more. First TV station in the world, "Sender Paul Nipkow" in Berlin in 1935 (BBC followed in 1936).

[@mydogs9900]

😂😂😂😂Covid test😂😂😂😂😂

[@79BlackRose]

Fantastic video and reaction Joel. The only one I knew in advance was the printing press. I was half expecting the third one to reveal the inventor was "Microscope" after Messrs Diesel and Bunsen. 😅

[@Arsenic71]

Yes, Hans and Fritz Mikroskop! 😅🤣

[@pauldenby878]

Great reaction Joel! You should also do a reaction to German achievements in the Arts - it's quite a fascinating story (particularly in the 20th Century - painting / cinema / music)

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

They also missed out Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch on whose process most modern fertilizer production is based. Without it humanity would have faced widespread hunger and starvation by the 1970s. I think that was more 'world changing' than the MP3.

[@derauditor5748]

"They also missed out Fritz Haber" bäm! spot on! Haber was really a tragic figure. Giving and taking Life of so many People and Soldiers.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

@@derauditor5748 Tragic is a good way of describing Haber. A Jewish German nationalist who developed chlorine gas into a weapon for trench warfare plus his work was fundamental in developing Zyklon B.

[@dadudeme]

@@derauditor5748 hmm yes ammonia is used in explosives creation. Many inventions where created in war, war drives innovation. that does not mean the invention itself is bad.

[@raineramelung7380]

There, s some more... The car, Rockets, Computer,....

[@dr.wolfganglistabarth6984]

I would suggest that you consider Hedy Lamarr. She was not German, but Austrian. She was once a famous (now forgotten) Hollywood Star. At her time considered the most beautiful woman of the world (and beautiful she was indeed). But besides of that, she was an inventor. And what she invented is the basis now of cellphones, bluetooth and things like that. She was not German, but German was her mother tongue. Look it up at the Internet.

[@James-25]

bro german and austrian are the same

[@marciusmarciukas5467]

Those were just tip of the iceberg there are so much more.

[@dutchyjhome]

As proud as I am on my German heritage as a Dutchy i really must point out to you that a fellow youtuber called casey kilmore on her channel has a video called dutch inventions you never knew were dutch, which may blow your mind as well ;-) Some Dutch inventions: - Wifi - the heart-lung machine - the artificial kidney - the marines - the firehose - the speed camera (not invented for speeding tickets, by the way) - the cassette tape - the legal entity - the stock exchange - the four wheel drive - the orange carrot ….. to name a few

[@AlbionTarkhan]

Germans have invented way more shit than that and have led the world in so many fields for centuries. And German immigrants to other countries particularly America have made huge contributions to technological innovations. It’s such a pity that such a wonderful people and culture had such a terrible period in history that many can only remember them by

[@Ilogunde]

And it's just 12 years (and a few months) in our roughly 2000 years of history... But everyone remembers the angry moustache man who wasn't even German but Austrian. To be clear: You absolutely should remember those 12 years and, more imoprtantly, how they came to be! There should absoltely never ever a repeat of times like these! But it is indeed sad that a lot of people tend to overlook all the good stuff the Germans of the past did for the world.

[@antonstoeckl3689]

Unfortunately many German inside Germany see Germans today as Racist, Nazi"s and intolerant to foreigners

[@TheBlackfall234]

the period is demonized far beyond reality. If you stop eating hollywood myths and start research ww2 just by actual historical documents and people who lived in that time, you will end up with a different result then "terrible period".

[@TheBlackfall234]

@@Ilogunde Austria and Germany are the same thing.

[@antonstoeckl3689]

I am old enough to say that both of my parents did live through Hitler time from the beginning to the very end. Both did say not everything was bad under Hitler. Their was prosperity for everyone and crime did almost not exist . My father was wounded in Moscow and was after his recovery a guard in a factory.

[@nosferatiel6610]

There are a heap of things missing, of course. It would be hard to list everything. But... what about the Haber-Bosch process? The industrial production of ammonia that allowed fertilizer production on industrial scales which in turn has generated and enabled more people to be alive than any other invention in modern history?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

The fact that RADAR, SONAR and LASER were all acronyms still blows my mind.

[@nettcologne9186]

On Wikipedia you can read all the inventions from Germany, whether the invention of the car, or the mRNA vaccine against Corona, whether Asperin or Einstein's theory of relativity.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Well... Einstein's work, was less an "invention", but more discoveries...

[@Bialy_1]

"read all the inventions from Germany, whether the invention of the car" you should use your own advice and learn that first car was invented in France over a century before Benz build his internal combustion first car... and few years after he did it at the end of XIX century the most popular type of car was not a car with internal combustion engine but an electric car... and the first electric car is a few years older than the German car and also comes from France... The mentioned by your vaccine is failing to stop the spread of the disease. "Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity" he left Germany in 1984 and moved to Switzerland.... Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis - his year of miracles(so 9 years after he left Germany and in that time he was studing, working and teaching in Switzerland) ->and he was in the end forced to run awey from Switzerland and Europe because of German habit of forcing Swiss to extradite to Germany people with Einstein -> non-German nationality -> and then this people were forced to take a shower in a room where showers do not got any water conected to the showers... and mentioned by you Aspirin was invented in 1897 by Bayern -> In 1925 Bayer merged with five other German companies to form IG Farben -> If you use your own advice and read about what chemical substance was in this showers you gonna learn that IG Farben is all over wikipedia article that is describing development, production and criminaluse of that substance...

[@antonstoeckl3689]

mRNA was invented by Dr. Robert Malone. He is totally against to use it as a vaccine for humans

[@Patrick-sz5dk]

I'm missing the Haber-Bosch process (by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch), one of the greatest inventions of all time :D

[@DJone4one]

Not to forget that Porsche also developed the first electric vehicle. And the first Computer Z1 was from K. Zuse.

[@DJone4one]

@@ThomasVWorm Sorry, the explanation was wrong. Of course porsche didn't develop the first pc, that wasn't what was meant either. I should have separated the sentence. Lt.

[@ray-sattler]

Germany invented all 3 kinds of engines. The Ottomotor (gasoline engine), the Wankel-engine and the Diesel-engine as well as the jet-engine was invented by Messerschmitt, also we invented the car, the cathode ray tube, the intercontinental rocket (invented by Wernher von Braun who engineered the V1 and V2 rocket during WW2 and became NASA director after WW2). Also the computer was invented by Conrad Zuse and many other things...

[@rolandscherer1574]

Discovery and proof of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn. Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch were the first to publish a correct theoretical explanation of the process.

[@Lumynex8335]

why is the bunsen burner always included in these lists when they could talk about the car or first computer ???? lol

[@pakabe8774]

Because you asked for, I would suggest a video that is a bit longer, but it tells the story of that Germany I learned to love and so imo it is worth to be watched: The channel is called "Then & Now" and the video: "Why German History is Different". I don't send the link, because comments get lost quite often if there are links in it.

[@marcelmuseler6697]

Car, calculater, computer, bicycle, motorcycle, light bulb, telephone, dynamo, TV, fission, jet propulsion, aspirin, harmonica, jeans, vinyl record, glider, spark plug, toothpaste, gummy bear, 35mm camera, teabag, currywurst, scanner, dowel, airbag, c-leg, and more an more.

[@kingofshit303]

Otto Hahn was the first person who was able to split an atom. I just forgot this world changing discovery (not an invention, indeed). Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nuclear fission was the basis for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

[@johnfisher9816]

FABULOUS video and reaction Joel! A wonderful way to start the day. John in Canada

[@magnustool]

I miss the "Horten I". It was the first aircraft that could move forward unaided and consisted only of the wings. Maiden flight in 1933. Its successor, the "Horten IX", was found by the Americans after the end of the war. It's the grandfather of the "F-117 Nighthawk" and the "B-2 Spirit". I also miss the "A4" (Aggregat 4) from 1942 here in the video. Developed as a ballistic artillery weapon, the rocket became the basis for the push into space. Without the "A4" the first man in space would probably have come 20 or 30 years later and the moon would certainly still be a long way off...

[@denise4954]

Hi from Germany, there is more than that. Here are 2 other videos about German Inventions. 20 German inventions that changed the world! German inventions that changed the world. (Part 2)

[@living4107]

The Video missed Carl Benz who invented the first Car with a Petrol Engine, the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen No. 1", in 1886

[@orlando-legolasthanheiser5717]

And there are so much more Technologies which are invented in Germany. For example: Rockets which can leave the atmosphere are started first from German ground (the ingenieur was called Braun and founded later the NASA), 1941 Konrad Zuse invented the first PC which called Z3 (this one can't even do much and alse filled up a hole room, but it was the first digital PC which was based on) and also the equivalent to the Diesel engine the Otto-Engine was invented in Germany, also the first batterie cames from Germany and is called Galvanic element.

[@maxwilli3718]

Werner von Braun invented rocket propulsion, Konrad Zuse the first Computer. Heisenberg, Einstein. Telephone by Johann Philipp Reis. Robert Koch, Max Planck, Gauß etc etc

[@jessisfabulousworld2108]

You should do a part two 😂 Adidas Airbag Aspirin Cars as it is, but BMW, Benz, Audi, VW, Porshe all German Cars Beer Bike Bookprinting Christmas trees Computer Contact lenses Gummibears Helicopter Jeans Jet engine Motorbike Puma Turntables Fridge (Siemens,Bosch,Miele .. all German) Scanner X-Rays Telephone Television Theory of relativity Thermos flask Toothpaste Zeppelin Electrical tram Diesel and Otto Engine First anti baby Pille And many many more

[@stevenbodum3405]

who needs mp3 without another german invention the computer? basicly most stuff around us is inevnted by germans,cars, motorbikes, bikes, computer, telephone, light bulb, diesel motor, 4 stroke gas motor, gliders, elektic locomotive, forgot to say most of medicin and chemistry,rokets and space flight and so on.

[@HG_Budde]

The petrol or "Otto Engine" was invented by the german engineer Nicolaus August Otto in 1876 as well. Coincidentally this was also the engine Henry Ford used for his 1896 "Jew Flattening Device", sorry.. "Quadricycle" 😋 We invented EVERYTHING, the first bicycle, the airbag, beer, the c-leg (computer-controlled leg prostethic), the first chip-card (as in Debit and modern Credit Cards, the first contact lens, gummi bears, the first working helicopter, Jeans (they technically were invented by the German Levi Strauss), the jet engine, the first Kindergarten, the first motorcycle, nuclear fission, record players (vinyl, MC/VHS, mp1/2/3/4), the first ice-less, ammonia-operated refrigerator, the colour-scanner and its predecessors, the pocket camera (as apposed to the one with the stand and the hide-and-seek-blanket, Social Legislation (health, accident, old age and unemployment insurance laws), the first electric street cart/tram, the TV, the first thermos flask and toothpaste. Funny story as the last one: Konrad Zuse, a german engineer hated Maths so much, that he invented a machine that would do it for him, so he simultaniously invented the first electronic calculator and the first functioning, programmable computer. I could go on and on naming more examples, if I only knew some more.. 😁

[@Bialy_1]

First car was invented by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769(steam powered). In 1807, Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude created what was probably the world's first internal combustion engine (which they called a Pyréolophore), but installed it in a boat on the river Saone in France. Coincidentally, in 1807, the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed his own 'de Rivaz internal combustion engine' and used it to develop the world's first vehicle to be powered by such an engine. First electric car: 1881 French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrated the first working (three-wheeled) car powered by electricity at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris. also: "The Otto engine was a large stationary single-cylinder internal combustion four-stroke engine designed by the German Nicolaus Otto. It was a low-RPM machine, and only fired every other stroke due to the Otto cycle, also designed by Otto." vs. "The Ford Model T used a 177 cu in (2.9 L) sidevalve, reverse-flow cylinder head inline 4-cylinder engine. It was primarily a gasoline engine. It produced 20 hp (14.9 kW) for a top speed of 45 mph (72 km/h). It was built in-unit with the Model T's novel transmission (a planetary design), sharing the same lubricating oil. The T engine was known for its simplicity, reliability, and economy. The engine remained in production for many years, and millions of units were produced. The engine design's lifespan exceeded that of the Model T vehicle itself, with industrial, marine, and military applications extending its production run. The T engine is on the Ward's 10 Best Engines of the 20th Century list." And not forget that you are also not corect about fuel as Ford T engine: While not engineered specifically for multifuel ability, its simple, robust design allowed a modified engine to successfully run on a variety of combustible fuels including benzene, ethanol, or kerosene. Sory do not have time to find all fake claims from your comment... but gonna leave you with an example: In 1897, the German physicist Leo Graetz invented and published his diode bridge and in year 1895 Polish inventor Karol Pollack invented and patented it in the UK and in year 1986 in Germany... and that is why many people nowdays call Karol Pollack invention a Graetz circuit or Graetz bridge... -> and i just mentioning it because you using internet and its working only because of that circuit. Karol Pollack also invented electrolytic capacitor -> for good part of the XX century most of the electronics and computers were build with that Polish invention.

[@Bialy_1]

"The four-stroke engine was first patented by Alphonse Beau de Rochas in 1861. Before, in about 1854-57, two Italians (Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci) invented an engine that was rumored to be very similar, but the patent was lost. The first person to build a working four-stroke engine, a stationary engine using a coal gas-air mixture for fuel (a gas engine), was German engineer Nicolaus Otto. This is why the four-stroke principle today is commonly known as the Otto cycle and four-stroke engines using spark plugs often are called Otto engines." "In 1886, the German patent office nullified the Deutz patent that would have run until 1891 due to the discovery of a previous patent for a four cycle engine by Frenchman Alphonse Beau de Rochas. Deutz was unable to show that his stratified charge induction system was unlike that described in the Rochas patent and lost his monopoly" So kinda similar story like with the Graetz circuit... I expect that in a decade or two when electric cars will be a dominant type of car again the era of false claims that Germans invented cars will be over and French will be finaly corectly recognized as the inventors.

[@tomekk895]

The "Jeans" were invented in Nevada by Jacob Davis (Jākobs Jufess) a latvian-jewish taylor, who immigrated to the US. Levi Strauss was Davis's cloth supplier and helped him to pay the patent fee for "rivet enforced pants". They holded the patent together from 1873 until 1890's then it went public domian.

[@HG_Budde]

@@tomekk895 Okay, you have convinced me. I was wrong 😅

[@HG_Budde]

@@Bialy_1 How do you know there are more "fake" claims, if you didn't even bother to check all of them? Using the word "fake" would imply that I did it on purpose, when I simply made a mistake. If you want to play this game, the first machine that could be recognised as a car was invented by a flemish inventor, namely Ferdinand Verbiest, residing in China around the year 1672. So your claim to fame would be "fake" as well. It is not my intention to big up Germany, but to distribute knowledge - so if and when I'm wrong, I will gladly admit that.

[@fixzeichner5592]

There are a lot of German inventions. Konrad Zuse invented the first working computer in 1941, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz invented the first automobile and the first motorcycle, Manfred von Ardenne invented television in 1930, Otto Hahn succeeded in fission in 1938, In 1878 Philipp Reis invented the telephone. The druggist Otto von Mayernburg invented toothpaste in 1907, In 1937, Hans von Ohain invented the jet engine for airplanes.The first helicopter was built by Heinrich Focke in 1936, Arthur Fischer invented the expansion anchor in 1958....

[@AP-RSI]

Aspirin, although the ancient Germanic and Celts already knew the willow bark extract.

[@fixzeichner5592]

@@AP-RSI The Germans and Celts are our ancestors in Germany.

[@AP-RSI]

@@fixzeichner5592 Ich weiß, deshalb schreibe ich es ja!

[@jonson856]

The mp3 format was quite the ingenious way of compressing audio files. I remember having to learn the concept of it myself because nobody could help me and then I had to present it for my Abiturabschlussprüfung.

[@Arsenic71]

The jet engine by Ohain (at the same time but idependently from Whittle in the UK), the periodic table of elements (at the same time but independently from Mendeleev and someone else, I believe in the UK), Zuse with his worlds first electronic programmable computer, the first cruise missile and the first ballistic missile (V1 and V2 by von Braun), I think in the early 20th century Germany was only second to the UK in terms of geniuses and fundamental research and discoveries as well as nobel prizes. BTW Einstein did not get his Nobel Prize for his theories of Relativity (special and general relativity) but for the discovery of the photoelectric effect, the basis of solar cells. Oh yeah, we also invented the car (some Americans seem to think it was Henry Ford).

[@guntherschmitt2229]

There is much more: The car, the motorbike, the bicycle, TV, the petrol engine (Otto-Motor), the computer, the Fax machine, Aspirin, only to name a few...

[@Bunny99s]

X-Rays are called "Röntgenstrahlen" in german :) "Strahl" means ray, "Strahlen" is just the plural, so rays. The term "X-Rays" was actually coined by Röntgen himself as he labels the rays with X as in "unknown" / new type of radiation. In many other languages the X has stuck.

[@DSiato]

What about the TV (aka cathode-ray tube), the computer (Zuse Z1), nitro fertilizer, aspirin, communism, protestantism, beer (as we know it today) and of course the mighty fax machine

[@JackMarston.1895]

They didn’t mention the V-1 and mostly importantly the V-2? The V-2 was the first rocket ever to enter space and they didn’t even mention it once

[@derauditor5748]

Peenemünde. "The Cradle of Space flight" They shot a V2 to over 100 km hight in 1942 and went even higher later on. So the first Man Made Object was actually a Weapon... German Scientist even imported the Paint Scheme onto US Rockets... See the Saturn V Rockets... Vintage Space on Black and White US Rockets kzbin.info/www/bejne/o369l2ymj7-AlaM

[@fritzkaraldo8452]

Petrol engine and Diesel engine, both use mineral oil. So people back then doubt the Diesel engine. In order to proove the worth of his invention Rudolph Diesel had to find a alternative fuel for the engine that he wanted to put on display during the Paris Science Fair. He choosed penut oil.

[@sofievalerie2628]

It also works with sunfloweroil^^

[@denzzlinga]

@@sofievalerie2628 it was intended to run on Oils. And still today, diesel engines can run on most oils as fuel.

[@sofievalerie2628]

@@denzzlinga yes i know

[@freeenergyonshore2828]

x-Ray, or Röntgen, as we say in Germany. You can visit the original laboratory at the university of Würzburg, as well as the original Nobel achievement. Everything survived the second world war, like a small wonder. The university is pleased to show you that stuff if you are interested.

[@olivertripp5412]

Many worldwide used and world-changing inventions missing, but it's hard to cut down to 10... Some things like a bunsen burner should be left out and the car for example should be put in...

[@roderickdunn3464]

The printing press allowed the production of texts, this allowed the creation of books to record knowledge, this in turn allow the growth of knowledge ... And so on the printing press is the starting point of ourmodern society.

[@hape3862]

Aspirin, Jet engine, Sugar beet, electric generator, fridge (in today's form), Otto-motor, Fanta, LCD-monitors, X-ray, automobile, the globe(!), mRNA Covid vaccine, Covid tests, rockets, Magazines / Newspapers, electric locomotives …

[@Morph-ur3fx]

Thank you for your video..greetings from germany

[@borntoclimb7116]

Those inventions are important

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

And I wonder how many of these inventions were spread across the world freely and how many were forcefully taken.

[@ticktaeck7783]

Nice Video but they forgot some of the most important things. Not only the diesel engine but also the otto engine is an invention from germany. Additionally up till now it is debatable whether the Wright brothers or Gustav Weißkopf were the first pilots of history. There is evidence that Weißkopf flew half a year earlyer than the Wright brothers. Gustav Weißkopf was a german imigrant living in the USA. And last but not least the modern car by Carl Benz. To be fair not the first car in history but it is considered the first modern car with an Internal combustion engine. Edit: Totally forgot the Sturmgewehr the first assault rifle from WW II, the rocket engine and Einstein and his impact on the world of science

[@frankhainke7442]

And there are not only inventions but discoveries too. Look at Robert Koch, or Robert Mayer, or Johannes Kepler et al.

[@luis15317]

The car/automobile, the bicycle, the computer... the most important ones are missing !

[@stefanw7406]

In my opinion, an important invention is missing here, because the German Conrad Zuse has developed the first computer with the "Zuse Z 1".

[@Nobody_Cares913]

Video talks about diesel motors, shows robotic arms. Talks about electron microscopes, shows optical microscopes.

[@Muck006]

5:30 He forgot to mention the TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE ... which allows you to look through materials. This is a special niche variant, but just like optical microscopes there are times when you "look through samples" (which for optical microscopes are typically cells).

[@klappstock943]

Add automobile, fridge, ketchup, TV,..... 🔥

[@coot1925]

Agreed BF31. Where's the car? ✌️♥️🇬🇧

[@AndersGetherSoerensen]

Tape recorder is a Danish invention: A tape recorder, tape recorder, or tape machine can record, store, and reproduce sound using a magnetic tape that is fed at constant speed past a tone head by being sandwiched between a capstan shaft and a rubber-coated pressure roller. For data recording there were/are (?) machines where the tape was started when recording and stopped immediately afterwards (intermittent operation). The predecessor was a steel wire recorder, where the medium was a steel wire that could be magnetized. Valdemar Poulsen's Telegrafon (1898) was one of the first. Bang & Olufsen's trademark for tape recorders, "Beocord", is because the company's first machine (1948?) was a steel wire recorder. The reel-to-reel tape recorder came into the world in the 1940s, and the medium was in the first generation reel-to-reel tape, magnetic tape with a thin layer of magnetic iron oxide on carrier media, first of all paper, then ¼" (6.35 mm) wide cellulose acetate, later various types of plastic. Among the brands of tape recorders known in Denmark over time can be mentioned Ampex, Assmann, B&O*, Eltra*, Fostex, Grundig, Luxor, Lyrec*, Movic*, Nagra, Philco, Philips*, Revox, Studer, Tandberg, Teac, Telefunken, Uher (* Danish produced). Some only with highly specialized professional tape machines, others with a wide range. Later, the company Philips invented the cassette tape recorder, which was somewhat more user-friendly and did not take up as much space as the reel-to-reel tape recorder, which is still used today for professional purposes. The cassette tape was a compact further development of the American eight-track cartridge or 8-track tape, which was never widely used in Denmark. 8-track was an endless 8-spot ¼" tape (6.35 mm wide audio tape) in a cassette, where one or two tracks, if stereo, were played at a time, and after running through the tape, it was changed to a new set track The system was particularly widespread as a tape player in cars. However, the method was still analog, which entails a loss of quality when copying. Development continued with digital tape recorders (DAT), which were initially held back by electronics manufacturers due to the risk of piracy. The digital audio tape recorder uses rotating tone heads on the same principle as a video tape recorder. The word tape recorder is obsolete. However, you still come across audio enthusiasts who use (especially) reel-to-reel tape recorders, as the sound from this format is considered particularly "real" and dynamic.

[@AP-RSI]

"Magnetic recording Magnetic recording was conceived as early as 1878 by the American engineer Oberlin Smith and demonstrated in practice in 1898 by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen. Analog magnetic wire recording, and its successor, magnetic tape recording, involve the use of a magnetizable medium which moves with a constant speed past a recording head. An electrical signal, which is analogous to the sound that is to be recorded, is fed to the recording head, inducing a pattern of magnetization similar to the signal. A playback head can then pick up the changes in magnetic field from the tape and convert it into an electrical signal to be amplified and played back through a loudspeaker." - "Modern tape recorders Magnetic tape recording as we know it today was developed in Germany during the 1930s at BASF (then part of the chemical giant IG Farben) and AEG in cooperation with the state radio RRG. This was based on Fritz Pfleumer's 1928 invention of paper tape with oxide powder lacquered onto it. The first practical tape recorder from AEG was the Magnetophon K1, demonstrated in Germany in 1935. Eduard Schüller [de] of AEG built the recorders and developed a ring-shaped recording and playback head. It replaced the needle-shaped head which tended to shred the tape. Friedrich Matthias of IG Farben/BASF developed the recording tape, including the oxide, the binder, and the backing material. Walter Weber, working for Hans Joachim von Braunmühl [de] at the RRG, discovered the AC biasing technique, which radically improved sound quality."

[@Harrock]

The Printing Press has to be the most important Invention of Mankind .... Knowledge can be written down, Safed and duplicated ... People from every Society have access to Information and Education not only the wealthy and Powefull ...

[@Linkingx2]

I am also reffering to the wikipedia site "list of german inventions" insane absolutely insane

[@biloaffe]

Here are 3 more interesting German experiences: // 1. Catapult ejection seat for fighter aircraft 1934. From 1943 onwards, rocket ejection seats were introduced, and in 1944 60 German pilots were able to save themselves in the war. 2. "MetaGer" is a German metasearch engine that was developed at the University of Hanover as a service of the Regional Computing Center for Lower Saxony since April 1996. The name “MetaGer” stands for Meta = Greek “about” and Germania. 3. "Barbie" doll: On a trip to Europe, Ruth Handler discovered such a doll in a shop window in Lucerne and bought it. She was about 30 centimeters tall and had a blonde ponytail hairstyle. The doll in the shop window was Bild-Lilli, a doll based on a comic that Reinhard Beuthien had drawn for the BILD newspaper since 1952 and which had been on the market since 1955. It was modeled by Max Weißbrodt from the company O. & M. Hausser in Neustadt near Coburg. Back in the USA, the Handlers set about implementing their doll project. 😮

[@thomasp.5057]

Like some more german inventors? Here we go: - Nicolaus August Otto invented the internal combustion engine (OTTO engine for gasoline) - Konrad Zuse developed 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 (Thanks to wikipedia 😉)

[@TheBackdrafter80]

Funny how the reviewed video often does not show the thing that it's talking about. E.g. electron microscope and chip card. There was an actual electron microscope in the picture only once. In the chip card section it's 95% microprocessors and 2 seconds chip card. The point is that the contained chip holds data AND is flat enough to fit into a card (like a credit card). This includes SIM cards for mobile phones.

[@MrSinclairn]

Good reaction vid,Joel 👌 Bunsen burners are ubiquitous in chemistry/school/science labs worldwide;and Gutenberg always gets his due,although the Chinese,followed by the Koreans were doing woodblock printing,as early as the 9th century.👍

[@eagle1de227]

Gutenbergs revolution was not the printing itself wich was known long ago, but printing with movable characters wich could be changed fast and easily.

[@benjaminlamey3591]

@@eagle1de227 and also the preparation of print patterns in advance, that you could move easily on the press. with a crew preparing the patterns with movable parts and a crew printing

[@awo166]

Its not only about printing but thanks to Gutenberg it was possible to replicate. Which then made book printing possible and information accessible for everyone. Gutenbergs invention is probably one of the most important invention in human history.

[@GregoriusElite]

Funfact the forerunner from the B2 bomber was from germany and stolen in ww2 from american. And the carabine "Car 15" family (M16, M4 etc) comes from the german Sturmgewehr Stg 44. The reciver and other parts are the same. Great Videos and keep it up.

[@lumpltv8488]

We don't run out of IP-Adresses, we already ran out a long time ago. But luckily there are some very smart computer freaks, that solved it with seperating external and internal adresses. IPv6 was already introduced back in 1995, but it is far more conveniet to use IPv4 for us humans. That is one of the major reasons why we still use IPv4.

[@zoltanreisz2228]

Missed: rocket propulsion - Werner von Braun

[@anderl6380]

some greater inventions are missing. The television by braun, computer by zuse, telephone by reis, aspirin by bayer, motorcar by benz, gasoline engine, train, aeroplane by lilienthal etc....

[@outstandler]

Hey JPS, first. I think it’s very remarkable that you try to learn more about the world. I think especially because you’re from the US because you’re country is so selfcentered and doesn’t encourage the normal people to get this kind of knowledge. So don’t you ever be ashamed of not knowing before learning. As long as you’re willing to change that. Second. You’re way more smarter than you think. You’re a clever and charming person. I like you’re videos a lot because you’re so open minded. Very refreshing in this world. ❤ Greets from Germany 😎

[@dominikmagyar1519]

They forgot a lot. For example the Rocket, the car (karl Benz) ect.

[@vincentjutte3500]

Some of the biggest inventions they forgot: the lightbulb (wasn’t Edison look it up), the telephone, the first motorcycle and the first car, the glider plane, theory of relativity, the television, nuclear fission, the first computer and many more. And still some Americans out there asking if we have refrigerators 😂 love your content btw, it’s nice that you’re so open minded and interested in foreign countries!

[@the_godfather9974]

How did he not talk about the invention of the car? Or the Otto engine?

[@Dirk-Ulowetz]

I missed Gottlieb Daimler, Carl Benz, Otto Hahn, Nikolaus Otto, Konrad Zuse, Carl Zeiss, the brand Leica, the inventor of the jet engine,...

[@gerwinbitter4968]

A simple discovery but one that I personally enjoy and that is Condensed Milk - discovered in Dresden.

[@klausmoritzpeitzsch690]

+Heroin +Aspirin +Television (Braunsche Röhre, Tubes) +Hertz (electromagnetic waves) +Motorcars (Benz) +rocket science (the Nazis) and many more

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Whilst the theory of RADAR was German, practical implementation was down to the British. _The first practical radar system was produced in 1935 by the British physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt, and by 1939 England had established a chain of radar stations along its south and east coasts to detect aggressors in the air or on the sea_

[@Reaktanzkreis]

The germans do not use the word Radar. In german it called "Funkmeß- und Beobachtung" Short FuMB, In the 1930th some german radio engineers tested radio waves for detecting ships at the german North Sea coast in Schleswig Holstein. Frequencies about 30-40 MHz were used for those experiments. The developement of equipment for practical use began. New companies were established for this new technique. Funkstrahl and GEMA were two of those. The Brits made efforts in SHF radars due to Watsons "magnetron", a self osciliation valve in the GHz range.

[@TheGamingCrow]

The video you reacted to here didn't even scratch the surface. Other german invention that changed the world are: the car, the bicycle, the motorbike, jet engine, computer, rocket, glider, aspirin, peniciln, and so on and so on. It's *crazy* what invention have been made in Germany. Even when it comes to less world changing things like teddy bears, gummy bears, hamburgers and hot dogs (even though the name hot dog is danish, the food itself is german).

[@samjones714]

I'm blown away that the rocket isn't mentioned. Without Wernher von Brown we there wouldn't have been the moon landing. Oh and while we're there, Hans von Ohain invented the jet engine.

[@nobelderpopel2283]

Why was Fritz Haber not named? The man was the first to produce artificial ammonium at a time when natural ammonium for fertilising was becoming increasingly scarce --> the world population quadrupled with his invention! With his artificial ammonium he saved millions of people from starvation. Unfortunately, he killed millions in the First World War by converting his ammonium into nitrate. He also produced chlorine gas, thereby becoming known as the father of gas.

[@derauditor5748]

Rammstein "Wer hoch steigt, der wird tief fallen" - "The higher you climb, the farther you fall"

[@AurelAvramescu]

A german invented also Otto engine (Nicolaus Otto), which is the engine used by cars that runs on petrol (gasoline).

[@dennisolesen6188]

Hmm I always thought Royal Raymond Rife got the credit behind the super microscope 🤷‍♂️