5 Major Inventions You Didn’t Know Were German! | Feli from Germany

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▸Germany is known for its engineering and inventions. Most of you probably know that the printing press was invented by a German called Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. But there are a lot of other inventions where -- even in Germany -- most people have no clue that they were invented by their own countrymen! That's why in this video, I’m gonna tell you about 5 German inventions that changed the world.
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[@FelifromGermany]

Go to buyraycon.com/felifromgermany for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon. *Did YOU know these inventions were German? 🇩🇪* What other inventions do you think are worth mentioning? Let me know in the comments! :) Make sure to watch Part 2▸kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqLMnHmGbLqir5o

[@dwin6005]

Jetzt ist sogar Aschermittwoch vorbei. Ich hoffe, du hattest/ihr hattet eine tolle Zeit! :-)

[@dwin6005]

The Covid-/Corona-Vaccine (Biontech, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate).

[@nettcologne9186]

The mRNA vaccine from BioNTech, plus the first corona test from the Charité Berlin

[@kryos_100]

The Computer (C3) by Konrad(t?) Zuse

[@techguy943]

Interesting about the MP3 file format Also interesting how you put an iPod classic and iPod Shuffle on the screen to tell us about the MP3 file format Apple though has moved the audio codecs to like AAC Dolby Atmos Lostless etc for today's devices but the AirPods even AirPods Pro 2 don't really support Lostless Audio because the codec is too large for Bluetooth

[@robertewalt7789]

My father got a Masters in Chemistry. Back in his day, so many chemical processes were discovered or invented in Germany, he had to learn German language to read the articles.

[@TerryBollinger]

Possibly the most world-impacting German invention of all time was the Haber process, which creates ammonia from nitrogen in the air. It simultaneously enabled the creation of fertilizers that kept millions from starvation but also enabled the creation of explosives on scales never seen before. It is an excellent example of the double-edged aspect of science and technology, where how we use it is as important as the invention itself.

[@markholm7050]

Yes. The Haber process is not well known to the public, but probably has a bigger effect on our world than almost any other invention.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

Also known as the Haber-Bosch process because the founder of the Bosch company helped Fritz Haber with the high-pressure equipment needed to prove the concept :)

[@eisikater1584]

Totally agree with your last sentence. But is there anything in this world that isn't "double use"? I own an axe. I use it to chop wood. That's what it was made for. Some time ago, a tax man came along because I owed them something, and he wanted my money. I was busy sharpening the axe's blade. He said something like, I'll leave you the bill here, pay when you can. My cats all grinned.

[@markholm7050]

@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Yes.

[@TerryBollinger]

@@eisikater1584, you make an excellent point! You might be surprised there's an entire subdiscipline of computer science dedicated to trust, especially for security issues. For example, how do you program artificial intelligences to trust or not trust software or data coming in from a worldwide network where malicious actors play a conspicuous role? It's a complex problem. To do it well, one must assume what you just said: Everything is a two-edged sword. I once told a researcher that trust was an important aspect of artificial intelligence, and he scoffed it off as irrelevant. A few seconds later I walked and casually removed his drink from in front of him, pointing out without words that he had been trusting that no one in the room would do such a thing. It got a good laugh. Trust is a part of our lives at many levels, more than we tend to realize. Enough. It's late, so I must trust again that tomorrow, the sun will rise.

[@marcburger6804]

Hi Feli! Great video. Here are some more german inventions: Globe - Martin Behaim, 1491 Pocket watch - Peter Hehnlein, 1504 Easter bunny - Georg Franck von Franckenau, 1682 Thermometer - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1709 Tooth brush - Christoph von Hellwig, um 1750 Refined sugar (made of sugar beets) - Franz Carl Achard, 1801 Gas stove - Zachäus Andreas Winzler, 1802 Christmas tree - Wilhelm Hoffmann, 1815 Bicycle - Karl Freiherr von Drais, 1817 Harmonica - Christian Ludwig Buschmann, 1821 Accordeon / Melodeon - Christian Ludwig Buschmann, 1822 Wire rope - Julius Albert, 1834 Colored pencil - Johann Sebastian Staedtler, 1834 Adhesive tape - Paul Carl Beiersdorf, 1836 Fuel cell - Christian Friedrich Schonbei, 1838 Kindergarten - Friedrich Fröbel, 1840 Industrial paper production - Gottlob Keller, 1843 Telephone - Philipp Reis, 1859 Cocaine - Albert Niemann, 1860 Periodic system - Julius Lothar Meyer, 1864 Generator - Werner von Siemens, 1866 Blue Jeans - Levi Strauss, 1873 Bacteriology - Robert Koch, 1876 Tramway / streetcar - Werner von Siemens, 1881 Motorcycle - Gottlieb Daimler & Wilhelm Maybach, 1885 Portable Telephone - Wilhelm Emil Fein, 1885 Document folder - Friedrich Soennecken, 1885 Radio waves - Heinrich Hertz, 1886 Automobile - Carl Benz, 1886 Record player - Emil Berliner, 1887 Contact lens - Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, 1887 Electric car - Andreas Flocken, 1888 Diesel engine - Rudolf Diesel, 1890 Cruise ship - Albert Ballin, 1891 Sailplane / Glider - Otto Lilienthal, 1894 Portable drilling machine - Wilhelm Emil Fein, 1895 X-rays - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, 1895 Truck - Gottlieb Daimler, 1896 Aspirin - Felix Hoffmann, 1879 Modern psychology - Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, 1879 Stuffed toy animal - Margarete Steiff, 1880 Spark plug - Robert Bosch, 1902 Thermos jug - Reinhold Burger, 1903 Baking powder - AugustOetker, 1903 Teddybear - Richard Steiff, 1903 Audio movies - Hans Vogt, 1905 Tooth paste - Ottomar von Mayenburg, 1907 Coffee filters - Melitta Bentz, 1908 Echo location - Alexander Behm, 1913 Built-in-Kitchen / Kitchenette - Ernst May, 1926 Chainsaw - Emil Lerp, 1927 Liquid shampoo - Hans Schwarzkopf, 1927 Audio tape - Fritz Pfleumer, 1928 Tea bag - Adolf Rambold, 1929 TV - Manfred von Ardenne, 1930 Scotch tape - Hugo Kirchberg, 1935 Jet engine - Hans von Ohain, 1936 Helicopter - Heinrich Focke, 1936 Nuclear fission - Otto Hahn, 1938 Jet plane - Ernst Heinkel, 1939 Computer - Konrad Zuse, 1941 Jet Fighter - Woldemar Voigt / Willy Messerschmitt, 1941 Ballistic rocket / Space rocket - Wernher von Braun, 1942 Scanner - Rudolf Hell, 1951 Rotary engine - Felix Wankel, 1954 Swimmies - Bernhard Markwitz, 1964 Chip card - Jürgen Dethloff & Helmut Gröttrup, 1969 Airbag - Walter Linderer, 1971 Video games - Ralph Baer, 1975 SMS - Friedhelm Hillebrand, 1992 PS: love your channel. Greetings from the south of Germany.

[@jorgf.2974]

Oh, you forgot "Heroin" by Felix Hoffmann, 1898, as well :-)

[@S16E1]

Turmdrehkran - Hans Liebherr, 1949 (He was born in my hometown Kaufbeuren in Bavaria)

[@UprightBassist]

I came to only add the *bicycle by Drais.* 🤔 But you added so many more inventions! 😅

[@Siggy4844]

TV is incorrect. Philo Farnsworth, a young man from Idaho/Utah came up with it first while still in high school and named his invention "television". He made his first successful electronic tv transmission on September 7, 1927, and filed a patent for his system that same year. Once his patents expired, dominant radio manufacturer RCA made their move and used Farnsworth's invention to advance their own TV development, headed by Vladimir Zworykin and mass produced the first household television sets. The first transmitter was built ontop of the Empire State Building.

[@miyu5025]

@@Siggy4844 The idea for the first mechanical television set was laid out in a patent in 1886 by Paul Nipkow, a German. He is considered the actual inventor of television. No matter how you twist or turn it, inventions almost always have a connection to Germany. Also, Philo Farnsworth's mother was of Danish (Bastian) descent and the Danes and Germans are also genetically related.

[@alwa4735]

German contributions to science and culture are amazing and the country is beautiful. Greetings from Poland:)

[@tiestokygoericprydz3963]

Gummy bears and video games by Ralph Baer

[@dalcomaroni9837]

​@@tiestokygoericprydz3963Video games are Japanese

[@tiestokygoericprydz3963]

@@dalcomaroni9837 Ralph Baer 🇩🇪 Though Nintendo is japanese

[@pennyyoung2506]

@@tiestokygoericprydz3963 Tesla was not

[@tiestokygoericprydz3963]

@@pennyyoung2506 not German but Croatian American Like christian pulisic

[@joezingher4770]

Feli, you're one of the best things invented in Germany.

[@shorty14879]

Another fun fact to the mp3-Standard. At the beginning of the 1990s, Karlheinz Brandenburg presented his idea of playing mp3 music on personal computers and all the associated options to a number of Telekom bosses. They rejected his idea on the grounds that nobody will ever use computers to play music.

[@CHarlotte-ro4yi]

Fun fact about Mercedes. Anyone living in Stuttgart working there would say they work at “Daimler” however when I lived in Mannheim where Mercedes also has a site people would always say that they work at “Benz” neither would say “Mercedes” 😅

[@Stefan23E]

Correct. Greetings from Stuttgart

[@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824]

Wasn't Mercedes the daughter of a financier?

[@cameronduff884]

Hey WOW man, when I was playing with my torque multiplier, I was trying to formulate a pre torque and angle finish and I thought I had discovered what the Mercedes logo was, but when I looked it up, it stands for LAND, SEA, AIR.

[@marcburger6804]

@C Harlotte Absolutely right. You work at „Daimler“. Because this die s the name of the company. And you drive a „Mercedes“ because this is the name of the cars.

[@maikotter9945]

@@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824 [One of ] Carl Benz´ daugther(s) is named Mercedes! To this day, some female humans were given this name!

[@tomhalla426]

What Ford did develop was the moving assembly line for auto production, thus reducing the cost.

[@Toolaholic7]

That is incorrect,Oldsmobile was first in 1901 and is documented.Ford got the credit

[@brittanyknight1103]

Ford developed more than just that. But yes I’d agree that was their “big” thing back in the day. Ford did a lot first and others just revised or improved.

[@maxr.dechantsreiter5226]

In other words, Ford invented mass-produced automobiles, making them accessible to nearly everyone.

[@T-41]

Mass production moving assembly lines were inspired by the meat packing industry in Cincinnati which in the 19th century introduced moving lines to transport animal carcasses from station to station where they were washed, dried, various cuts of meat removed, smoked, packed in brine filled barrels.

[@tomhalla426]

@@T-41 I was deliberate in using “develop” with assembly lines. Getting something to be commercially viable is not the same as inventing it. Xerox PARC invented GUI, but was a failure at making it a viable product.

[@xeonsys]

The Melitta story begins in 1908 in Dresden Saxony. Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz, née Liebscher, daughter of a publisher's bookseller, has been bothered for a long time by the annoying coffee grounds in her cup, which repeatedly cloud the pure enjoyment of coffee. It's enough for her: without further ado she takes an old tin can, pierces the bottom with a hammer and nail and covers it with a piece of blotting paper cut to size from her eldest son Willy's exercise book. Coffee filters and filter paper were born. On June 20, 1908, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin granted her utility model protection for a "coffee filter working with filter paper with a convex base on the underside and slanted flow holes".

[@Raj-nh3fc]

I just bought 200 pack of coffee filter for my Melitta coffee machine. Thank you Germany!

[@cameronduff884]

Trivia: did you know that if you are out of cone type coffee filters that you can make one from a paper towel folded like a paper airplane?(hand poured only)

[@reuvenlax4635]

One of my favorite German inventions: the first automatic digital computer was created by Konrad Zuse in Germany in 1941. It never took off - the German government didn't think it was important to the war effort and was later destroyed during a bombing raid.

[@cameronduff884]

...lucky for us, sometimes control freaks make bad decisions....

[@quintrankid8045]

But after the war Zuse formed a company and sold computers.

[@hartmutholzgraefe]

As far as I remember Zuse did create a smaller derivative of one of his Z-machines (Z2 or Z3) that was used to automate wing calibration of the V1 flying bombs (basically the predecessor of cruise missiles) ...

[@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824]

The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was first.

[@quintrankid8045]

@@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824 However, from the Wikipedia article, "he ABC's priority is debated among historians of computer technology, because it was neither programmable, nor Turing-complete."

[@timothyclark803]

I work as a surgical technician in the US. Pretty much all the surgical instruments we use are made in Germany, or, here by the German company that makes them. Sterilizers and instrument washers used in the cleaning and sterilizing of surgical instruments are also German made. Very high quality and extremely reliable.

[@cameronduff884]

...even as a tire tech I notice they have solved little problems that our companies don't seem to think is worth their effort even if it could mean the difference between life and death.

[@reuvenlax4635]

Not as well known: Levi Strauss was a German Jew, and immigrated to the US along with large numbers of German Jews at that time (the immigration of Slavic Jews from Russia/Poland would come 40-50 years later, and they often clashed with the more upper-class German Jews). It's possible that Strauss also spoke German, but many Jews in Germany abandoned use of Yiddish in the 19th century in an effort to assimilate better into German culture.

[@Nghilifa]

Jeans have a multi-national origin. Like you said, Mr. Strauss was German (and American), the design was created in USA but the fabric was invented in France (Nîmes). Denim is just an anglicization of the phrase "de Nîmes" which means "from Nîmes" in French. de Nîmes = Denim.

[@SgtSupaman]

Yeah, I don't think that one belongs on a list specifically dedicated to "German inventions". Strauss was an American citizen inventing it in America in partnership with another American. He was from Germany, and the finalized cloth was from France, which are both important parts of the story, but not where the invention occurred.

[@davidwise1302]

My understanding of jeans history is that the fabric was developed about 400 years ago in Genoa ("Gênes" in French) to make very durable clothing for sailors and laborers. It found its way to Nîmes, which was prominent in the textile industry, whose export of the fabric did indeed result in the word "denim" from "de Nîmes". In French, this blue Genoan fabric was called "bleus de Gênes" ("blue material from Genoa") from which we are supposed to get "blue jeans."

[@donobrien1850]

Eiffel 65 was developed from blue genes.

[@michaelbcohen]

Levi Strauss was Jewish at a time Jews were not considered "real Germans" because they werent ethnic Germans. It was a very big political issue at the time he came to the US (very big in the discussion in 1848). Germans at the time would not have referred to Jews as Germans, but rather Jews. When he left for the US it was around the time Jews were getting emancipated (between 1813 and 1869, with most states in 1848) in most of the German states, and very early concept of Germans of the Jewish faith, rather than just Jews who lived in Germany. So he was from Germany, but in his time, he would not have been considered German, and he very much downplayed his coming from Germany, heavily identifying as American or Jewish, or both during his lifetime.

[@piper888]

Levi Strauss a German Jew

[@jesseturner9865]

Roentgens is still a measurement of radioactivity. Of course we wouldn't have made progress on Rockets without Von Braun.

[@davidbraun6209]

I was just about to note that Wernher von Braun (no relation) was the man who "invented" or designed the Saturn V rocket that took humans to the moon.

[@elmarwild4755]

@@davidbraun6209 Not to mention Hermann Oberth, who was born in Transilvania, by then part of Austria, but he lived in Feucht, Germany for most of his live

[@cameronduff884]

​@@davidbraun6209 Cool, I am just learning all about this thanks to Utube, didn't know that he sold the American people on the idea with the help of JFK and Walt Disney.

[@KB-xd5wq]

I'm not sure who thought Ford invented the car. He was involved in the mass production of cars starting with the model T that made them affordable for more people.

[@Yossri]

Justus von Liebig, Fritz Haber, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Konrad Zuse, Artur Fischer, Peter Henlein, Emile Berliner to name a few inventors / scientists

[@hartmutholzgraefe]

TIL I learned that the "Mercedes" brand name wan't actually a homage to the daughter of Carl Benz or Gottlieb Daimler (a story I had heard several times). There was a daughter involved, but it was the daughter of Emil Jellinek, one of the early independent salesmen selling Daimler automobiles, and also did participate in car races under the pseudonym "Mercedes" (after his daughter Mercédès Jellinek). He was pretty successful as a race driver, and his name got tied to the specific Daimler models he drove, so eventually the Daimler company took over the Mercedes brand name for broader use than just race cars

[@marcburger6804]

He was a Daimler-Maybach dealer and was looking for fame to make his business even more successful. He did not (!) participated in races under the pseudonym „Monsieur Mercedes“. This is a modern urban legend. There’s no proof in historical documents he ever did. And also: Why should he hide his name? ‘He was a business man who wanted to sell cars and was looking for fame. Jellinek wrote the name of his daughter Mercedes upon his racecars in order to bring luck and place the car under protection of the goddesss of victory: Nike. Pretty much the same as you name yachts and boats to place it under the protection of Poseidon, the god of the seas. So his Daimler-Maybach racecars became famous unser the name Mercedes. Jellinek then made a contract with Daimler-Maybach to sell the cars under this name. The „Jellinek-Mercedes“. A few years later, the Daimler company bought the name and called the cars „Daimler-Mercedes“. After Daimler bought the Benz & Cie Company, the company‘s name changed to „Daimler-Benz“. The part of the company that produced cars was called „Mercedes-Benz“. The cars were named „Mercedes“. That‘s pretty much until today. Only interrupted by a non-successful short period when the Daimler Company bought Chrysler. Jellinek became a consul for austria and lived in Monaco. His daughter Mercedes Adrienne Ramona Manuela von Weigl died 1929 in Vienna.

[@hartmutholzgraefe]

@@marcburger6804 Ok, that's what I got from trusting Wikipedia on this then ...

[@daguard411]

The original riveted blue jeans had a rivet to hold the crotch stitching ends in place. Levi went to sit beside a fire and learned that the crotch rivet kind of burned a guy's junk, so that rivet was discontinued. Aside from army and navy equipment, I think Bayer Aspirin is an overlooked German invention.

[@dougbrowning82]

The Indigo dye that coloured Levi's jeans was also a German invention. It secured a fortune for Bayer's competitors at BASF.

[@mario27171]

The story of the crotch rivet was used by Levi's in a commercial back in the 90s. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5i0h2Z7r8tledU

[@cengeb]

Bayer is one of the largest Pharma chemical companies, BASF, world's largest, BASF invented magnetic recording tape

[@faithlesshound5621]

I read a few decades ago that the reason the inventor of aspirin is not famous is probably that he was a Jewish scientist working in Germany.

[@martinstock]

@@faithlesshound5621 Felix Hoffmann discovered the chemical process to produce clean acetylsalicylic acid in 1897. A precursor to ASA/aspirin found in the bark of the willow tree was known/used for 2400 years at least. And ASA as substance described so 30 years earlier in chemical literature. Hoffmann discovered also the chemical process to produce diamorphine, better known under the trade name Bayer choose for it: heroin. Diamorphine itself was however discovered 23 years earlier by C.R. Alder Wright. Arthur Eichengrün claimed later that Felix Hoffmann just conducted a test setup he designed. But this is unlikely. Eichengrün joined Bayer 1.5 years after Hoffmann and was never his boss. And on 10. Aug. 1897 still in his probation period at Bayer. Eichengrün mentions also in a publication from 1918 that Felix Hoffmann discovered the chemical process to produce ACA. And that the real value of the substance was only recognized a good year later by Heinrich Dreser, the head of the pharmaceutical department (Felix Hoffmann became later his successor). In 1899 Bayer registered the tradename Aspirin for their ASA. Eichengrün claimed that he was denied to be mentioned in the patent because he was Jewish. But this is contradicted by the fact that 47 patents (on other substances) were granted to him. And that the real value of ACA was - by his own words - not known when the patent was given to Felix Hoffmann.

[@hughmungus1767]

An excellent documentary series that I saw many years ago, called Connections, which I believe was a BBC/PBS co-production, informed me that German scientists who were trying to synthesize quinine, the antidote to malaria, inadvertently invented a very good permanent dye. This made it possible to dye clothes in many colours without the colours washing out in the laundry. This in turn led to a revolution in fashion that was worth billions of dollars.

[@GregoryHobbs-dt9vt]

Connections was awesome.

[@xeonsys]

Christine Hardt was a German housewife and inventor from Dresden Saxony. In 1899 she registered the first German patent for a women's camisole as a breast support at the Imperial Patent Office and is therefore considered one of the inventors of the brassiere. The Dresden native was a teacher for remedial gymnastics and worked as a masseuse for the doctor and sanatorium operator Heinrich Lahmann

[@markholm7050]

Von Linde also invented the process for liquifying and distilling air. This gives us liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid argon. Outside every modern hospital, you will find a storage tank for liquid oxygen supplying this life sustaining gas to patients. Nitrogen is used in both liquid and gas forms in a variety of industrial processes. Argon is very widely used in modern welding. Aluminum, stainless steel and titanium welding are particularly dependent on argon, though it is used for steel welding as well.

[@cameronduff884]

I think for steel it's half CO2...

[@markholm7050]

@@cameronduff884 I’m not a welder. From watching KZbin videos by experienced welders, I am aware that steel welding does sometimes use mixtures of argon and CO2. I believe the ratio depends on the details of the welding job.

[@ralfklonowski3740]

@@markholm7050 Precisely. All non-iron metals like aluminium or copper require almost pure argon, mild steel tolerates pure CO2 and for all other steels there is a rule of thumb: The more other metals like chrome or nickel are added to the steel the more argon has to be in the mixture. There are some jobs like welding at the bottom of a ditch or overhead work, where argon is replaced by helium because the latter is lighter than air and will rise up instead of filling the ditch and suffocate you like argon might.

[@TerryBollinger]

A bit of mostly forgotten history: Albert Einstein also invented a refrigerator in collaboration with a physicist friend. It worked well, but unfortunately made extremely loud screeching noises and so was never commercialized.

[@eisikater1584]

True, but although Einstein had worked at a patent office, he and his friend, Karl Wolfgang Graff (sic! double-f!) didn't bother about patenting their machine which they thought usable, but unreliable. They didn't follow that path any further.

[@TerryBollinger]

​@@eisikater1584alas, those names ring no bells. I was referring to the Einstein-Szilárd refrigerator for which Szilárd received a 1930 US patent. Wikipedia has a nice "Einstein refrigerator" article on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator

[@eisikater1584]

@@TerryBollinger You're right. I knew that Einstein and Szilárd were close friends, but wasn't aware that Szilàrd received a US patent for a fridge. I really didn't know that it is called "Einstein refrigerator" in English, because, after all, if Szilàrd had it patented, why isn't it named after him? His name is almost forgotten in contemporary culture although he was a great scientist in his time. Just like Nikola Tesla was whose name is being misused by a rich car manufacturer who builds computers on wheels.

[@hannekehartkoorn5987]

From the early 60s till late 70s my parents used an Electrolux fridge that they imported from Sweden that used Einstein's absorption technology.

[@michaelburggraf2822]

Einstein was also involved in patenting a gyro compass for the Anschütz company, belonging to Raytheon today.

[@californiahiker9616]

Feli, I’ve been alive long enough to have come across all that info! I visited the Konrad Zuse Museum in Hünfeld, where some of my family are living. That visit dates 20 years back. Until then I didn’t know about Zuse’s computer, either. I started my nursing career in Germany. We would take our patients to the Röntgenabteilung, zum Röntgen. Us folks in Nordhessen would pronounce it “rönchen”. I’m glad that word didn’t catch on here… I can just hear Americans totally mess up that pronunciation… worse than us Hessenköppe did… and most likely are still doing!

[@ryanf4497]

To add to the Wilhelm Röntgen part, the radioactive element roentgenium was named after him in 2004. The unit roentgen was also named after him.

[@jeromemckenna7102]

Of course we've moved on from tape, but the tape recorder was invented in Germany. The disc record (gramophone) was invented by Emile Berliner a German who was living in the US.

[@oldtop4682]

There was a predecessor from Bell Labs in the US using a wax tape, but for what we know today, yeah a combination of BASF and IG Farben in the 30s produced magnetic tape much like one would see today. The wire recorder was fully German, and still in use for some things throughout WWII.

[@red_dolphin468]

auf jedenfall fehlt der erste programmierbare Computer Z3 von Konrad Zuse.

[@pendragon2012]

Thanks, Feli! I needed a cheer-up video today! 🙂Hope you are enjoying your visit home (and Ben isn't missing you too much!)--the pictures from Carneval look like lots of fun!

[@AmericasGotGermans]

I saw the picture of her celebrating too! It looked like a lot of fun😊, but made me a bit homesick 😪

[@TerryBollinger]

Great topic! The total contributions of Germany to science and technology are truly immense!

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

I totally agree with you 👍👍👍

[@pennyyoung2506]

I love my European people!! Such an *incredibly* inventive people. It's unfortunate that despite the nearly infinite accomplishments we have, we are given very little credit. 🤍

[@lenn939]

@@pennyyoung2506Europeans are not given credit for their inventions? What do you mean?

[@alwa4735]

@@lenn939 I think it might mean that people often associate many invetions with Americans even if important contributions were made by Europeans as well. This is especially seen in most recent inventions. I like the way Feli presented those inventions in the video stating that there were other people who also contributed to the develpment of forementioned inventions/technologies. Obviously that doesn't undermine German input which is enormous.

[@lenn939]

@@alwa4735 I don’t think it’s a big thing that Europeans are given “very little credit” for their contributions to science and technology though. I mean, sure, there’s some ignorant Americans who will claim that the car was invented by Henry Ford or things like that but is it really a common thing to downplay the role of Europeans in the development of modern science and technology? Aren’t Europeans in fact given a lot of credit for kickstarting the scientific revolution and age of industrialization?

[@PhilG999]

I had the great good fortune to spend 8 years as a Warranty Engineer for Deutz here in Atlanta. KHD. Yes, Nickolas August Otto and Rudolph Diesel founded the whole thing! I also know that German Engineers tend to look down on any Engineers that are NOT German, but I can say (modestly) that I earned their respect, as well as some in the parent company in Cologne. 😁

[@kenny408]

I don't think it's a common thing looking down on engineers of other countries. I guess this reputation is based on the past and today they're able to realize, accept and appreciate inventions from all over the world. Today it seems like they're not able to produce payable things here in germany 😄 However. Congratulations to your probably good work 😁

[@stevenkoehler6018]

You can add to the list-the modern acoustic guitar. Made by the Martin Guitar Company of Nazareth, Pennsylvania. The Martin family were furniture makers who immigrated to the U.S. in the early 19th century. They were in New York for some years, then moved to Pennsylvania. There they created the modern steel string guitar. Compared to previous guitars, their designs were quite innovative, creative and REALLY made a huge impact on music in general.

[@cameronduff884]

...cool, I've always liked the name of that guitar the guy with the glasses in the American band the BYRDS plays....(Rickenbacker)...

[@V7avalon]

The switch to denim canvas from wool and lighter textiles was due to the lack of availability of materials during the gold rush years. Buying up used and new sail canvases from the thousands of ships coming into San Francisco along with the rivets is what made Levis cheap and durable.

[@terryc7142]

One of the revolutionary technologies in MP3 compression is in the psychoacoustics of it. They determined that some parts of the sound could just be removed entirely and people couldn't hear the difference. That, plus careful quantization and compression makes for a powerful sound file shrinker! Now, there are other formats like FLAC and OGG as well, but MP3 is still king.

[@UprightBassist]

Also, its *successor AAC* (Advanced Audio Coding) is even better, and still widely used. 😊 Also from the same German Institute, Fraunhofer iirc. 🤓😉

[@SaschaFerda]

Johann Philipp Reis, who invented the first telephone. I know, I know. Look it up. It had flaws and could not reproduce low volume speech very well, but it could transmit speech before Mr. Bell's device ever did.

[@Braun30]

Bell took much of Meucci's phone.

[@gregmarcou1705]

Since I'm an X-ray tech I knew about Rontgen! I also knew about Benz! Henry Ford invented the modern production line and yep I knew Levi Strauss was German. The other two I didn't know but do now!

[@kateruch7196]

I do a lot of genealogy and learned that my 1st cousin 4x removed was Miles Ainscough Seed, who apparently developed the first glass dry plates sensitive enough to be used for x-rays. He emigrated from England in 1866. His dry plates were also used for the official photographs of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

[@christian_w.]

Regarding Röntgen: There is the verb "röntgen" (to X-ray) which has the past participle "geröntgt" (X-rayed). I very much like the consonant cluster "-ntgt" which is so complex that many say "geröncht" instead. Must be one of the most complex clusters in German language. 😆

[@jamesr1703]

Very interesting Feli. I knew all of these inventions were German, but do you know where the fabric "denim" originates? This from Wiki: Denim was first produced in the city of Nîmes in France, and was originally called the serge de Nîmes. The word denim is an English colloquialism of the French term: “de nim.”

[@RustyDust101]

As a German I am as proud as Feli is on the many iterations that improved our world. Because to claim that only one person truly invented something would be to ignore the multitudes of previous ingenious people down the millennia, right back to the first person to artificially starting a fire. None of those great inventors listed in this video could have done their work without all the previous failures and successes of their intellectual predecessors. For once let's all applaud the genius of all people of all nationalities who helped improve the lives of so many others.

[@cameronduff884]

Amen.

[@bobcarney3895]

Feli...you got to talk about carnival time Germany. I was stationed at Ramstein AB in the mid 1980s and really enjoyed that time of year. Thank you for all of the good videos. Keep up the excellent work...Danke!!

[@philw6056]

It's possible that she doesn't have a real connection with carnival/fasching.

[@shadow-mask]

Carbonated Beer? You took our Egyptian barley juice-beer and turned it into what we all drink today ;)

[@HaleyMary]

I never knew the x ray was invented by a German. One of many medical things we take for granted these days. I love that mp3s were invented. Mp3s allowed world music to be more accessible to North America. There was a lot of British, Australian, French and Spanish artists/bands available on cds, but the mp3s made music from all over the world and music from different eras more accessible. I never knew the fridge was invented by a German, either. That's gotta be the invention all of us are most grateful for. Thanks Carl von Linde for inventing the fridge so our food won't spoil.

[@treetopjones737]

For us older people, the only way to buy one song ( actually you got two, one on each side ) when we were kids was to buy a 45 record. And only certain songs were chosen to be the single.

[@cameronduff884]

...cool, I remember a jukebox tech telling me that 2 45s could be loaded in one slot to play 2 A sides, and there is a mechanical counter that would tell you what songs/slots were getting the most plays..

[@morlewen7218]

Do not forget the famous inventor Konrad Adenauer: 1) Veggie sausage 2) process for the production of a bread similar to Rhenish rye bread 3)Luminous darning egg 4) electric brush for pest control 5) garden rake having the head of a meat tenderizer

[@danperlmutter]

You're so good at doing videos like this! Defi, would love to see part II

[@jimjackson5544]

The Rocket, that took our Astronauts to the Moon was just one of many recruited by the USA after WWII from Germany (ie: Hitler), was made by a German Scientist!!!

[@cameronduff884]

"operation paper clip "

[@karlscheel3500]

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was the German mathematician behind the invention of Calculus (d.h., Differential- & Integral-Rechnung); although some might argue, that it was Isaac Newton who invented it, it's Leibniz's Calculus notation that is the most commonly used today. It has *so* many scientific, engineering, banking, & business applications, that man could *not* possibly have advanced technology-wise to the level we are at without it.

[@ericvanvlandren8987]

Your videos are SO good at explaining things!

[@jws3925]

They still make gas (ammonia) refrigerators. There are I think 3 US manufactures of gas refrigerators. They are mostly used by the Amish and off grid cabins like mine.

[@cameronduff884]

Thank You.

[@markrossow6303]

commercial refrigeration, like in a grocery store or cold-storage warehouse, also uses ammonia

[@markholm7050]

Robert Bosch and Gottlob Honold invented the spark plug, key to nearly all modern Otto type engines.

[@cameronduff884]

think they also get credit for FUEL INJECTION.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

The concept of an incandescent light bulb existed before Edison. He apparently bought the patent from a Canadian who didn't have the money to develop the idea. Joseph Swann in the UK is also credited with its invention.

[@gonzo7tx]

Have a great trip. Always enjoy your content and big fan from way back.

[@gonzo7tx]

Fan from back before you were forced to rebrand. What a hassle that was. But you did it and have succeeded beyond. Just brilliant!

[@colt2ish]

Great video, I remember growing up and being told that Ford invented the car. Then I went to the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart 😆

[@cameronduff884]

Ford was Irish but had many German engineers, the man credited with the mono block V8 was named Schultz.

[@markrossow6303]

saw the Stutgart M-B Museum when I was in 4th grade, in Frankfurt

[@colt2ish]

@@markrossow6303 I was stationed in Bayern with the US Army for 3 years and had the pleasure to see a lot of Germany and Europe. I'm currently studying German because I want to move back.

[@radicalnomad1]

Ford made the first type of car that was affordable to the middle class

[@salloschiavo4193]

...Ford invented the mass production of the car...assembly line......but not the car itself

[@wesleybush8646]

There was a recent episode of American Experience on PBS on the history of blue jeans. Very informative. Great video.

[@edwardmeade]

Another one that is important is the 3-phase, 3-wire alternating current distribution system. Edison championed 2-wire DC, Tesla championed 2-phase, 4-wire, AC, but it was a Russian, Michael Dolvino-Dobrovolsky working for AEG in Germany that perfected the 3-phase 3-wire AC that is currently in use around the world.

[@seitentraeumerin]

Ein grossartiges Video, liebe Feli. Sehr lehrreich und bereichernd

[@Siggy4844]

Thank you Feli, lots of good info. I knew about Carl Benz because I am from Mannheim. Karl Drais, also from Mannheim, invented the "Laufrad" the first bicycle but it did not have any pedals. French inventor Pierre Lallement improved upon that design by adding pedals and gears and is mostly credited for inventing the first pedal bicycle as we know it today.

[@CantankerousDave]

#1 are actually called レントゲン写真 (rentogen shashin) - Roentgen photographs - in Japanese, so it's a lot harder to miss the German origin there.

[@cynic7049]

Same in Sweden "Röntgenstrålar" - Röntgen rays, and very similar names in the rest of the Nordics countries.

[@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783]

Also in hungarian and serbian as well.

[@pennyyoung2506]

It's so weird that some people nowadays think places like Japan are the birthplace of most of the modern inventions. 🤍

[@Sennahoj_DE_RLP]

In Germany, too. Röntgenstrahlung

[@tiestokygoericprydz3963]

@@pennyyoung2506 just brands like Nintendo, Yamaha, Toyota, Suzuki

[@larrybrown1124]

Well done! I never knew about the refrigerator story, very interesting!

[@angelikapreu9323]

The First MP3-Song is "Toms Diner", The A-Capella Version from Suzanne Vega...😊

[@jamesvandemark2086]

Ah-ha! MPEG! Uhh, what about Aspirin? That Hoffman fellow from Munich?

[@kaidorner3164]

Ich liebe deine Videos bist so sympathisch ❤️😍

[@kryos_100]

Ah now I know why there are so many gastanks with the Linde brand logo on it

[@juliancumpian2747]

Thank you Feli, your videos are highly informative and your delivery is spot on. I would like to learn more about inventions from Germany, maybe even older ones.

[@michaelhurley3171]

A shorter list would be what you guys didn't invent. Best engineers in the world 🌎

[@FelifromGermany]

Not wrong haha 😅

[@cameronduff884]

...trolling...

[@patax144]

the Blimp they didn't invent that, the invention was sold to a German by a Colombian eingeneer, however the German is credited with its invention. Germany made an industry out of it, but they didn't invent it.

[@rockyracoon3233]

​@@FelifromGermany . Ditto

[@pennyyoung2506]

@@cameronduff884 It is *awesome* to be German. (And European in general 🙂)

[@paulgrant421]

My German BiL lives in the town next to Lennep. The Röntgen-Museum is pretty cool... especially the exhibit hall with all the vintage X-ray machines and medical devices. (I recommend it over the nearby Werkzeugmuseum... but check out both of you have time. )

[@GregoryHobbs-dt9vt]

Really impressed with how you seamlessly fit in ads that you make and also how you find sponsors. We’ll make am American of you yet!

[@daninraleigh]

Since you asked, After WW1, the Bayer company, in Germany, was forced to relinquish the rights to two of their top inventions, as part of war reparations: aspirin & heroin. True story.

[@darrinschlangen4119]

Germans make so many awesome things. Mp3, jeans, and cars are some of my favorites.

[@pennyyoung2506]

Europeans deserve soooo much more credit than we get 😊🤍

[@jd-zr3vk]

Levis included a rivet in the crotch. Many men were burned while standing over a fire. That rivet was removed.

[@markrossow6303]

Yep. Or more common posture of crouching around a campfire -- copper is an Excellent heat-conductor

[@cameronduff884]

...can't imagine why......YIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!.......

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Amazing organization, topic, selections, and explanation.

[@charliesmith4072]

For the record the cloth for jeans came from a small city in France on the Rhone River, De Nimes.

[@thehoneybadger8089]

FYI, the FFG on your shirt could be the second largest grain size rating for black gunpowder normally used in rifle cartridges of calibers 32 through 50.

[@philw6056]

The 9mm cartridge is an austrian-german invention by Georg Luger and the Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG.

[@Navyuncle]

You noticed that too. ⚡

[@cameronduff884]

Hey WOW man, I'm not really a gun guy but I know our M60 was modeled from a German one and the Austin Powers carictor MINI ME is a parity of a related Belgian light machine gun...

[@eisikater1584]

Okay, you mentioned Edison, so I have to interfere: Philip Reis and the telephone? And what about the Fi (maybe RCCB in English), the residual current operating circuit breaker, which has saved so many lives, invented in 1903 by the Schuckert Werke by an unnamed engineer. The flat phono record was invented in 1887 by Emil Berliner. To be fair, he was inspired by Edison, and it was a long way to go until we got to stereo and finally, CDs and mp3s. Nuclear fission, I know, that's controversial, but Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann discovered it in 1938, with the contribution of Lise Meitner, who fled Nazi Germany because she was Jewish. Yes, this video shouts for a part 2. Or 3. I just named 5 inventions from the fields where I'm interested in, but there may be more.

[@AdelMalekMD]

Great job Feli, love this vidieo... keep it up!

[@andreasdracker8018]

One of the first German inventions, the upright gait. The Danuvius guggenmosi named ape lived 11.62 million years ago in Germany and walked on two legs. About six million years earlier than the oldest primates in Africa.

[@nordland2235]

My cousin worked for Krupp....he gave me a history book of Krupp company.......one thing I can remember is that they made the first forms for the first U.S coins...iirc

[@josealfonsosilvalatorre1826]

Hi from Perú 🇵🇪🇩🇪☺️

[@zaphodbeeblebrox6627]

I don’t know if anyone else has pointed it out ,but the fabric known as Denim is a French fabric from Nimes in Southern France originally called ’serge de Nîmes’ hence the reason it’s called denim ( denim= from Nimes) . Also the lightbulb was invented by Joseph Swan in the UK.

[@daveb1177]

My favorite German invention is Feli. Invented by her parents sometime in the 1990s.

[@gageguy]

Didn't Carl Zeiss invent the Coordinated Measuring Machine for measuring is optical lenses? I heard that somewhere but he may have just improved it. I know Zeiss makes the best CMMs made today.(I program them)

[@somersault4762]

he invented the microscope.

[@cameronduff884]

...good binoculars too, along with Steiner...

[@Beery1962]

2:00 Hey Feli, it's "by accident" not "on accident". Don't worry - lots of native speakers get this wrong too.

[@FelifromGermany]

Haha thanks but I'm not trying to speak textbook English 😊 I never said "on accident" before I came to the US, but I've picked up on it over time.

[@caulkins69]

@@FelifromGermany It sounds like you've also picked up the unfortunate habit of using "laying" as an intransitive verb. Do Germans mix up _liegen_ and _legen_ in everyday speech? I'm guessing not.

[@Beery1962]

@@FelifromGermany Okay, but just FYI -it's not just slang - it's the sort of mistake kids make. As far as I'm aware, very few adults say "on accident".

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I just watched this video, and I found this quite informative! I knew about Benz's _Motorwagen,_ Diesel's diesel, and Strauss's jeans, but I didn't know about the X-ray, the fridge, and even the MP3 being German! I also learned that despite Benz and Daimler never meeting, they created the automobile in exactly the same year, relatively close together... and their companies are now Daimler-Benz! This is one of those uncanny facts of history! These men really made history, proving that Germany lives up to its reputation of efficiency. Thanks for the video!

[@moi01887]

Fun fact: in the medical community a while back, there was a movement toward calling x-rays (the images, not the rays themselves) "roentgenograms". But it seems like it didn't catch on.

[@thatguy8869]

My rankings for German auto hood ornaments: 1. Porsche 2. BMW 3. Audi 4. Mercedes Benz 5. VW Did I miss anybody? The '80 Audi I had was like a tank. The only way to lock the car door after getting out was to use the key, so I could not lock myself out. I liked my '74 Super Beatle, even if it was hasslich und alt. Three colors of paint, plus rust splotches. But it could boogy.

[@cameronduff884]

...you forgot the boat car...

[@geraldfarr8279]

Opel

[@marcburger6804]

You missed quite a lot of german car brands. Also german car brands are: AMG Alpina Abt Arden Artega M Power GmbH Lamborghini (-> Audi) Bugatti Bentley (-> VW) Bitter Brabus Gemballa Isdera Melkus Rolls Royce (-> BMW) Seat (-> VW) Skoda (-> VW) Scania (-> VW) MAN (-> VW) Maybach (-> Mercedes) Mini (-> BMW) Opel Ruf Smart Wiesmann Ford Europe

[@thatguy8869]

@@marcburger6804 Thank ypu.

[@marcburger6804]

@@thatguy8869 My pleasure.

[@patriciadurio562]

You have to experience Mardi Gras, on Fat Tuesday, in New Orleans at least once. Although Mardi Gras is closely associated with Louisiana it's actually celebrated all along the GOM coast with celebrations stretching from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and yes even Texas. But... as a resident of Louisiana I have to extend the invitation to "pardi" on the Mardi and after the parades relax at the Cafe Dumonde in the heart of New Orleans and get a cafe and beignets.

[@oldtop4682]

The one in Lafayette is a good time - not just New Orleans!

[@maikotter9945]

In Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, there are a lot of different traditions, as part of the annual christian carnival! The catholics and the greek orthodoxes are more into this topic! Im Germany, ~ 2.6 milion inhabitants are members of a carnival club!

[@byngostar6895]

Beautiful! Thank you. I will enjoy Mardi Gras someday soon🎉

[@michaelbedinger4121]

Thank you very much Feli, for a very informative video. I actually learned something new. I knew about Levi Strauss, and Rudolph Diesel, but I did not know about the other gentlemen, and their inventions. Thank you again Feli, take care.

[@tx4yabass]

Fascinating!!!..I knew the obvious ones but the rest is facinating!!!... Look forward to the follow up!!

[@EddieReischl]

Cool video. Warmem danken to Linde for helping keep my Weizen Doppelbock cold. I think I'd heard Daimler credited for the auto, Ford just streamlined production of autos with the assembly line, making them affordable. Always assumed Levi Strauss was American, as so many of us have German surnames.

[@ralfklonowski3740]

Linde's invention even helps producing the beer. Letting the beer mature needs low temperatures, depending on the kind of beer. So 150 years ago beeer could only be brewed in winter with the stock sometimes running out in summer when you most needed it. Breweries like Carlsberg in Copenhagen were among Linde's very first customers. I work in Dortmund, a city that still takes pride in its breweries. When the first Linde machine was installed at the former Ritter brewery (I can see the site where it used to be from my workplace), Linde himself came to Dortmund to supervise the process.

[@EddieReischl]

@@ralfklonowski3740 One of my friends makes a lot of home brews, ale (which is great), cause the ale yeast works okay just hanging out in the basement. It's somewhat complicated to make lager though, cause as you say, it needs to be pretty much refrigerated to pitch right if it has lager yeast in it.

[@ralfklonowski3740]

@@EddieReischl This also explains why German lager was first made in Bavaria with its rather cold and long winters, while Cologne in the mild climate of the lower Rhine valley to this day produces the Kölsch, a different kind of beer that tolerates higher temperatures during the production process than lager does. Greetings from Germany's Ruhr district!

[@EddieReischl]

@@ralfklonowski3740 Hello from Wisconsin, USA. Yeah, it's been interesting to learn all these things about brewing, like what makes a pilsner a pilsner versus a lager. My family emigrated here from Neureichenau, Bavaria around 1880. Still lots of Reischls around the Munich area. It's part of the reason why I enjoy Feli's channel.

[@billdwyer2522]

fascinating! I heard the term "waist overalls" just last week on NPR's show "wait! wait! don't tell me" I'm now kinda pissed they never mentioned the inventors were German, because most americans just assume blue jeans are all-american. I can hear the outcry from hillbillies in my hometown: "what thuh HAIL?!! well, at least we's americuns still cun lay claim t' Budweiser and Wieners!" LOL

[@EyMannMachHin]

And then you tell them that the town of Budweis is actually in Czechia and well Wieners are from Vienna in Austria

[@kurtbuschmeier541]

Look into the Schott glass. Invented by Friedrich Otto Schott in Jena at the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Genossen. The name became "Americanized" to Shot Glass when it came to America.

[@Tjay0716]

Cool stuff loved this episode! Keep up the good work Feli !

[@nilsoflix2005]

One of my favourite inventions of all time is adhesive tape. There are so many modern uses for it and it was originally invented in 1901 by Isaak Lifschütz and Oscar Troplowitz.

[@jeffreysnyder902]

I was born and raised in the US and I've never heard anyone claim Henry Ford invented the automobile.

[@roevardotter]

I actually heard that on the internet a lot (said by americans)

[@chiefhandker9432]

One of your presidents did it too

[@jeffreysnyder902]

So a few internet morons makes it true for everyone? OK.

[@jeffreysnyder902]

@@chiefhandker9432 Please provide a video link. I'd love to know which.

[@cameronduff884]

...we were usually told that it was the French with their steam kettle cart...

[@ComdrStew]

Thought Russians invented everything? 😁 My son had a project in sixth grade on a country of their choice and my son picked Germany. He had most of these inventions plus a lot more. He also did a presentation on WW2. I had some old German Luftwaffe propaganda mags called Der Adler that I let him use in the presentation. We use to live in Fairfield and Hamilton, OH just North of Cincinnati. What surprised a lot of people were Levi's and the Car. Most people thought Blue Jeans were an American invention, because Levi lived in America at the time. A lot of people said that the car was untrue and Ford started it, which is not true. I was surprised you did not have the biggest invention of all time on your list. 1941, Konrad Zuse invented the first fully programmable automatic computer called the Z3. Then 1942-1945 he invented the computer programming language. 1945 he invented the world's first commercial digital computer called the Z4.

[@salamanders6969]

I’m from Croatia and X-ray in Croatia is called “Rentgen” (Croatian spelling of the name Röntgen). In the hospitals X-ray signs read Rentgen. That’s the case in most European countries, I believe.

[@helgaioannidis9365]

In Italy it's called "lastra" (referring to the plate that is used) and in Greece it's called "ακτίνα" (aktina , which means radiation).

[@alicemilne1444]

In France it's usually "radiographie à rayons X" (X-ray radiography). France is also known for discoveries regarding radiation. Think of Becquerel, and Marie and Pierre Curie's discoveries of radium, etc.

[@nickandersson4165]

Other importend german inventions: first Computer (Zuse Z3 - 1941), first Rocket in Space (Aggregat 4/V-2 - 1944), first jet fighter (Messerschmitt ME 262 - 1944), Electron microscope (1931)

[@cosmos60]

Very fascinating subject that made me look up for more... here's another list, but in German only (was too lazy to translate it..) Bier - Herzog Wilhelm IV von Bayern Homöopathie - Samuel Hahnemann Telefon - Johann Philipp Reis Periodensystem - Lothar Meyer Dynamo und Straßenbahn - Werner von Siemens Motorrad - Gottlieb Daimler und Carl Benz Gleitflugzeug - Otto Lilienthal Relativitätstheorie - Albert Einstein Kleinbildkamera - Oskar Barnack Fernsehen - Manfred von Ardenne Kernspaltung und Atombombe - Otto Hahn Computer - Konrad Zuse Chipkarte (Bank) - Jürgen Dethloff und Helmut Gröttrup Adidas - Adolf (Adi) Dassler Haribo Gummibärchen - Hans Riegel Airbag - Mercedes Benz company Aspirin - Bayer company Bakterien-Entdecker - Robert Koch Fahrrad - Baron Karl von Drais C-Leg (Beinprothese) - Otto Bock Weihnachtsbaum - Süddeutschland Adventskranz - Johann Hinrich Wichern Kontaktlinsen - Adolf Eugen Fick Hänge-Gleiter - Otto Lilienthal Hubschrauber - Heinrich Focke Düsenantrieb - Hans von Ohain Kindergarten - Friedrich Fröbel Mayonaise - nicht Erfinder, aber erster Importeur in USA: Richard Hellman VW-Käfer - Ferdinand Porsche Plattenspieler - Emil Berliner Ritter- Sport-Schokolade - Alfred Ritter und Clara Ritter Scanner - Rudolf Hell Sozialversicherung - Kanzler Otto von Bismarck Steinway-Klaviere - Heinrich Engelhardt Steinweg Tonband-Gerät - Fritz Pfleumer TV - Baron Manfred von Ardenne Thermosflasche - Reinhold Burger Zahnpasta - Ottomar von Mayenburg Zeppelin - Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin Ketchup - Henry John Heinz Intrauterin Spirale - Ernst Gräfenberg Dampfsterilisation - Mathias Lautenschläger Petri-Schale - Julius Richard Petri Bunsenbrenner, Spektralanalyse - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Hot Dog - Nathan Handwerker/Charles Feltmann Curry-Wurst - Herta Heuwer BH - Christine Hardt

[@christophkohler2015]

Alexander Fleming was british/scotish and Alfred Nobel was swedish...

[@cosmos60]

@@christophkohler2015 yes, you are right, I will delete them from that list👍

[@cameronduff884]

Pretty impressive list.

[@royschrader8003]

Schrader Valve He was German. My Great Grandfather is August, but not the same August that I know of.

[@cameronduff884]

Cool, the SCRADER became the American or International valve, the French had/have the Presta valve found on expensive bicycles, and the British had the Woods valve, found on vintage equipment I think.

[@b.v.nielsen8714]

Darn! I was sure that Haribo would be on your list, it is without doubt one of the most important German things, EVER!! I'm so sad. 🤣❤️🇩🇰

[@tiestokygoericprydz3963]

Yes gummy bears are German - Video games , gummy worms are German Fifa is french Steam engine is English Light bulb is English ( Joseph Wilson swan) Wifi is Austrian Lego is danish Vaccination is English Pasteurization is french Photography is french Tv is Scottish Printing press is German X ray is German Best cars are German Igor Sikorsky, azboth Oscar is credited with a helicopter Rubik's cube is Hungarian Spotify and Minecraft and zipper is swedish Best DJs are Russian, dutch, french Cricket , formula 1 and tennis is English Telescope is dutch Accordion is French, piano, cello, espresso machine is Italian, lightning rod, synthesizer, marvel and DC comics, electric guitar is American etc

[@yankeecarolyn376]

'Cause I'm a gummy Bär🎶

[@CapitalJ25]

Superb video!