Top 10 German Inventions That Changed The World (BRITISH REACTION)

[@michaelkuschnefsky362]

Konrad Zuse, was the inventor of the first freely programmable computer and is therefore considered the forefather of the computer. Karl von Drais was the inventor of the first bicycle. Felix Hoffmann was the inventor of the first effective painkiller called Aspirin. Personally, I think these three inventions have changed a lot in the world.

[@Proxima_X]

Fritz Haber invented industrial fertilizer, without him, the world could support around 4 billion people.

[@christiankastorf4836]

Zuse did not use radio valves but telephone relays and old film material as raw material for perforated tape to store data and feed them into the machine. So there was a lot of electro-magnetic technology in his prototypes, just as in the early IBM computers that used punchcards right until the 1970s.

[@MrStubbs8157]

Fritz Haber and his method for fertilizer..is a big and scary one and something that made our world today possible (otherwise the world wouldnt have grown to such proportions).

[@SCYN0]

Opioids are far better pain Killers that have been found way earlier than Aspirin. But you know nobody invented morphine.

[@harti88]

Konrad Zuse, aus meiner Heimatstadt Hoyerswerda!

[@hape3862]

Not only the Diesel engine but also the Otto-motor and the jet engine. And the electric generator. And the fridge (in its current form, there were predecessors though), the car, rocket, computer, Aspirin, the sugar beet, artificial fertilizer.

[@haggihug3162]

Germany „invented“ the Protestant Church. Also somehow invented by a german: the bicycle. The christmastree. Contact lens. Airbag. The wings of plains. The helicopter. The Jeans (invented in USA by a german emigrant). The kindergarten. The motorcycle. The record and the gramophone. The scanner (to scan pictures). The small-format camera (more importand than it seems on first glimpse). Social insurance by law. The telephone (by Philip Reis). The TV. The theory of relativity. The thermosflask. Toothpaste. The Zeppelin. Unfortunatly we also invented the atom bomb … somehow …

[@christopherheinecke771]

dont forget the Cocain x)

[@tesophis8919]

i might add something like the "Telefunken Rollkugel RKS 100-86" technically the first Computermouse, unfortunally the Patent application was rejected because the benefit was doubted... another worthy mentioning would be the Jet-Powered Aircraft, the invention of the Jet-Engine itself might be kinda "splitted" between F. Whittle & H. v. Ohain (just because oh their individual approach on the Jet Engine) but the first Flight-Ready and also Proof of Concept was the Heinkel HE-178 in 1939.

[@mweskamppp]

@@christopherheinecke771 Heroin was invented as cough sirup by Bayer(tm).

[@DIN_A8]

@@christopherheinecke771LSD / Acid… thnks Mr. Hoffmann :D

[@veryincognito6776]

Not only the Diesel-engine: All combustion engine were german inventions: Petrol-engine: Nicolaus August Otto (1832-1891) Diesel-engine: Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913) Rotary-engine: Felix Heinrich Wankel (1902-1988)

[@hjs6102]

Four-stroke engine / Christian Reithmann

[@MrHaggyy]

Petrol had some contrbution from switzerland. But yes the breakthrough was german. Also turbines and rocket engines came really alive in germany.

[@dac9141]

Here's the list of 50 remarkable inventions that originated in Germany: 1. The Light Bulb - Heinrich Göbel 2. The Automobile - Karl Benz 3. The Diesel Engine - Rudolf Diesel 4. The Pneumatic Tire - Robert William Thomson, later improved by John Boyd Dunlop 5. Aspirin - Felix Hoffmann, Bayer 6. X-ray Radiation - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 7. The Printing Press with Movable Type - Johannes Gutenberg 8. The Computer - Konrad Zuse 9. The Refrigerator - Carl von Linde 10. The Helicopter - Heinrich Focke 11. Television (partially) - Manfred von Ardenne 12. The Scanner - Rudolf Hell 13. The Walkman - Andreas Pavel 14. The MP3 Player - Karlheinz Brandenburg 15. Jet Engine - Hans von Ohain 16. Coffee Filter - Melitta Bentz 17. Electron Microscope - Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll 18. Bacteriology - Robert Koch 19. The Otto Engine - Nikolaus Otto 20. Liquid Crystal Display - Wolfgang Helfrich and Martin Schadt 21. The Ballpoint Pen - Laszlo Biro and Georg Biro 22. Chip Card - Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrup 23. The Airbag - Mercedes-Benz 24. Barcode Technology - Günther Dausmann 25. The Periodic Table - Lothar Meyer 26. The Zeppelin - Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin 27. The Bunsen Burner - Robert Bunsen 28. The Electrocardiogram - Willem Einthoven 29. The Electric Locomotive - Werner von Siemens 30. The Influenza Vaccine - Albert Calmette 31. Magnetic Tape - Fritz Pfleumer 32. Coal Tar Dye - Friedrich Bayer 33. The Fountain Pen - Petrache Poenaru (developed by Pelikan) 34. The Lathe - Johann von Zimmermann 35. Radiation Chemotherapy - Hermann Strebel 36. The Thermometer - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 37. The Carburetor - Wilhelm Maybach 38. Modern Cement - Johann Friedrich John 39. The Stopwatch - Heuer 40. The Birth Control Pill (partially) - Carl Djerassi 41. The Accordion - Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann 42. The Electric Chair (for medical purposes) - Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser 43. The Jet Injector Pump - Hans Eugen Marie Christophe Jürgen von Siemens 44. The Blood Pressure Monitor - Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch 45. Paraffin Therapy - Gustav Adolph Hellmann 46. The Microtome - Wilhelm His Sr. 47. The Electronic Flash - Harold E. Edgerton 48. The Catalytic Converter - Eugène Houdry 49. The Headlamp - Bilux 50. The Torque Converter - Hermann Föttinger Some of these inventions were improved or further developed over time, but Germany has undeniably had a profound influence on the technological and scientific landscape.

[@AGermanFencer]

The Bike - Dreis The Tractor - Lanz Electric Elevator - Siemens Etc. :)

[@SadekZiad]

Many of these are totally false, stealing inventions that originated from Russia like the Periodic table.

[@Salzbuckel]

Djerassi was Austrian, ( I know his house in Vienna) originated from Hungy, Fountain pen was french, and Ball point pen was also not German, it was a Frech Passport holder, originated from Hungry as well, and later got an US Citizen.. Cement was even in use by the Romans, they had even an under water hardening cement invented., then forgotten and later reinvented by the british as Portland Cement. But, what you did not cover was the Telephone by Philip Reis, but did not appeal to an international or national >patent. Small, but worldwide important Der Dübel, don't know the english word , and last not least the Arterial Heart Catheter, which can, when early enough ( within max 4 hours) "delete" Infarction of heart and Brain ( Stroke) and any other vascular obliteration and instal even Stents, to make in most cases vessels stay wide and open. Huge impact on further outcome of health conditions and quality and duration of life, when the outcome of a stoke can totally avoided., so is dependance of needed care in elderly residences instead of new healthy vital life.

[@MK-xc9to]

I guess the most underrated German Invention is " Kunstdünger " or artificial Fertiliser because without it the earth could not feed its 8 Billion humans today ... , invented by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch around 1910 .

[@thomash3003]

That is absolutely true. Fritz Haber was a very controversial person. He invented - as you said - the production of ammonia from nitrogen (from the air, by using the linde process of liquifying air and separating nitrogen from oxygen ) and hydrogen (at these days produced from coal). During WW I he promoted and took part in the development in chemical warfare agents - his wife (a chemist herself) commited suicide because of this. He got a Nobel for chemistry for 1918 for the ammonia synthesis - but had to leave Germany at the Nazi regime because he was recognized to be jewish, even though he converted to protestantism in 1892.

[@lynndaria7716]

Some more german inventions may be of interest :) - first Universal healthcare 1883 Otto von Bismarck - Motorcycle 1885 Gottlieb Daimler - Automobile 1886 Gottlieb Daimler & Carl Benz - Record player 1887 Emil Berliner - Glider 1894 Otto v. Lilienthal - Aspirin 1897 by Felix Hoffmann/BAYER - The TV 1930 by Manfred von Ardennen - The first mRNA based Covid vaccine 2020 by the company biontech - SMS concept 1984 Friedhelm Hillebrand - First gene modification in an animal (mice) 1974 by Rudolf Jaenisch - First hydraulic breaker (used on excavators) 1967 by the company Krupp - The telephone by Philipp Reis in 1859 - Dynamo 1866 Werner von Siemens - Jeans in 1873 Levi Strauss - The Tram 1881 Werner von Siemens - Jet Engine 1936 Hans von Ohain - Helicopter 1936 Heinrich Focke - Nuclear fission 1938 Otto Hahn - Computer 1941 Konrad Zuse - Birth control pill 1961 Schering AG - Airbag 1971 Mercedes-Benz - First radio-controlled wristwatch 1990 by company junghans - SIM card 1991 by company Giesecke+Devrient - Glue stick 1969 by company Henkel - Wigomat (first electrical drip coffee maker) 1954 by Gottlob Widmann - CLeg (Microprocessor controlled prosthetics) 1997 by company Ottobock - STED Microscope 1994 by Stefan Hell and Jan Wichmann - Wankel Engine 1957 by Felix Wankel (another design to the combustion engine it was used in some cars and airplanes) - Defogger 1960s by Heinz Kunert (its the defogger in your car to clear you windshield of mist, frost and water) - Echocardiography 1953 by Carl Hellmuth Hertz in cooperation with swedish physican Inge Edler - Sincision lenticule extraction 2007 by by Walter Sekundo and Marcus Blum (eye surgery) - Phase Alternating Line (PAL)(colour encoding system for analogue television) 1961 by Walter Bruch of Telefunken - Electronic stability control (ESC) 1995 by Robert Bosch GmbH and Mercedes-Benz (the computer assisted programm to keep your car stable when you lose steering control or you oversteer in a curve)1930

[@jensbecker7066]

MP3?

[@OpenGL4ever]

Plastic Wall plugs

[@gnufz8623]

Levi Strauss invented the Jeans after he had migrated to the US, so that is strictly speaking not a German invention. Otherwise a great list.

[@joerggrohne64]

Toast Hawaii and Pizza Hawaii. What would the world be like without it 😂

[@schattensand]

Far to much work for a guy who will never read a post.

[@schroedingers_kotze]

Lots of other German inventions were not even listed here (just look at the other comments to see which important ones are missing), but the most important of all, in my view, is definitely Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, because it made the spread of modern knowledge possible in the first place. Before that, knowledge was only exchanged between a few monks and insiders. It's hard to imagine nowadays, but the books before Gutenberg were painted rather than written, each letter a technical challenge (and alas, one made a mistake). Since these books were incredibly valuable, they were usually kept in the monastic library in which they originated, with few exceptions. There was therefore only a very limited exchange of written knowledge (which is the basis of modern age and of modern ideas).

[@d_plays]

The printing press is for sure the most important. Guys like Diesel probably wouldn't even be educated without printed books.

[@MarcusAntoniusbla]

it also had big social influence especially on Religion/Politics

[@JJOhns-fy4tl]

Yeah, and never be confused: Gutenberg, der Drucker, Guttenberg, der Kopierer.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Small correction... JvG did not invent "the printing press", that was known e.g. in China for a millenium before him. He invented the process of printing with movable lettters that made setting all forms of text easier, faster and cheaper, allowing way bigger printruns than before where a lot of printing blocks were handcut from wood (and did not last long) or has to be poured from lead in a handcarved form and thus had to be remolten before too many pages were done as nobody could afford to have 1000 complete pages in their store. It's like mass production before and after Henry Ford... everything he used was known, including conveyor belt systems... he just made it efficient and repeatable so that the number of completed products grew exponentially. Or the lightbulb before and after Edison, he was not the original inventor of the idea of a glas vessel containing something that could be made to glow by electricity... he just perfected a cheap and mass produceable "wick" in form of carbonized woodfibres that allowed for large numbers of comparatively uniform and decently long lasting bulbs to be produced and sold...

[@martinaklee-webster1276]

Fun Fact, Röntgen used the Hand of His Wife for the first X Ray picture. As she saw it, she became scared and wispered: I've Seen Death.

[@Matthias_Br]

What shall be fun about that?

[@joerggrohne64]

@@Matthias_Br The fun fact is: She was right, she's dead now.

[@rolandstoger4925]

​@@Matthias_BrCalm down! It's only an anecdote!

[@bjornd9375]

a few important inventions are missing from the list: - car and motorcycle (1885 Daimler and Benz), - bicycle (1817 Drais), - computer (1941 Zuse), - light bulb (1856 Goebel, without patent), - telephone (1859 Reis, without patent), - Aspirin (1897 Hoffmann)

[@GothamClive]

Seriously, they start with the Diesel engine instead of the car. I think the car has changed the world quite a lot.

[@davidjones-bh5xg]

Graham Bell hat das Telefon erfunden oder irre ich mich da?

[@bjornd9375]

@@davidjones-bh5xg Graham Bell war derjenige, der es zuerst als Patent eingetragen hat ;)

[@thelastroninXX]

Germans also invented the car, motor bikes, Binary Computer Code, Jeans (i know Levi Strauss was an exil-German), the glider, the zeppelin, the tram, the dynamo, 35mm camera, TV, Nuclear Bomb and discovered Uranus.

[@Arsenic71]

They discovered my WHAT?

[@seeskabel4561]

@@Arsenic71the nuclear bomb in ur anus

[@erdbeerschosch2839]

​@@Arsenic71 Why your? Uranus belongs to noone.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

@@erdbeerschosch2839 wosh. Because he was making a butt joke (in English, Uranus sounds like "your anus")

[@annaschmidt6410]

Levi Strauss was a Jew.

[@pixelbartus]

I would say the coffee filter, the printing press, and the computer (in this order) are the fundament of modern science

[@s.h.741]

The printing press is not only important for literature. Before it was invented, every text, every book was copied by hand, a unique manu-script (literally: written by hand). Once it was possible to distribute information, but also propaganda quickly and cheaply, the world was changed. It's possible that without the printing press, the Protestant Reformation wouldn't have succeeded the way it did. Both parts of the religious divide used printed leaflets to spread their message. Without printing press: no newspaper, no huge libraries with identical editions of important literary or scientific texts. The revolution of the printed word is one of the most significant events in Western history, if not in the world.

[@Flametrooper118]

i agree, but the most imortant advantage of the Printing Press is how cheap books got. And is the foundation of our modern education. Access to knowledge got so easy

[@karowolkenschaufler7659]

@@Flametrooper118 yep. I think it's fair to say that it democratised knowledge. and the lovely escape from reality that is reading a novel... nasty side effect... the "Hexenhammer" would not have spread the way it did if the printing press hadn't been invented at that point. because the church was originally not a fan of all this witch hunting. but the blasted thing went viral and could not be contained. that killed a lot of people. sometimes I think.. with the internet and social media, we are really just repeating what our ancestors went through with the printing press and the mass manufacturing of books.

[@DumblyDorr]

It honestly seems a bit weird to me that he didn't know about Guttenberg... I honestly thought that's one of the most common pieces of historical knowledge everyone learns at school. No judgment here... just a little puzzled.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

But Gutenberg did not "Invent" the printing press... he added a process to print with reusable letters that allowed a faster, cheaper and more large scale production... there had been printing presses using woodcut "stamps" for almost a thousand years before he made his addition to the process... then the process changed to using wooden forms to pour lead in full page spreads or complete lines at once, which was expensive and did not last long as you had to reuse the lead or you'd need mountains of the stuff to make just one book). The "press" itself stayed pretty standard even afterwards, just some form of frame holding the paper centered on the "cliché" and a spindle allowing the paper to be pressed onto the ink covered prototype... (Prototype was the printing set, Stereotype refers to the produced "copies", thus a stereotype is a ridiculously often repeated pattern. Likewise Cliche, from the french onomatopoetic term for printing noises was the thing that got printed onto other things... printing has CHANGED our language ;)) It would take to the Industrial revolution to really get to better, larger, more productive sorts of printing presses driven by steam or electricity.

[@dieludolfverschwoerung]

The husband of my aunt was part of the team which invented the Mp3-Codec, he still gets money from the patent, great thing. He once tried to explain the method of compression used, to me, but I wasn't able to really understand it (maybe because I only was 11-12 years old at that time)...

[@TobiasRedmann]

Penicilline was invented by Theodor Billroth who was born in Germany

[@germanCrowbar]

The effect of penicillium was discovered by Billroth.

[@Tyrkir100]

Go into the history of Zeiss ... for more details about glass lenses in general ... the second half of the 19th century was the "Gründerzeit" ( another combined word to look up ) in Germany ... or WMF, or Siemens or Daimler ... German developments were driven by industry ... to be continued

[@erire1325]

Not only the printing press, but also the first powered printing press (or "fast press") was invented by a german called Friedrich Koenig. Koenig only build a wooden prototype in germany (called "Suhl-Presse" named after the town were he built it) because by 1803, germany had not yet been industrialised and lacked refined metal works. He moved to London and refined his invention together with german born Andreas Friedrich Bauer and english printer Richard Taylor. Their now steam-powered cylinder press was revolutionary as any printed medium could be mass-produced. The Times was actually the first newspaper worldwide to be mass printed with this machine.

[@h.s.3273]

Mp3 formats. The MP3 format was developed from 1982 under the direction of Hans-Georg Musmann by a group led by Karlheinz Brandenburg at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen and at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

[@cerberuskronos]

And remember: The first human made object in space was the german rocket Aggregat A4, better known as: V2 Rocket.

[@stevyyjay85]

German inventions are so cool. I am very proud of our scientists. They were (and still are) revolutionary. After WW2, The Soviet Union and the USA forced a lot of German scientists to work in their respective countries. Wernher von Braun for example, a rocket engineer, was a key figure in the creation of NASA.

[@michaelkrause1338]

das nannte sich dann: "Operation Paperclip"

[@marenhempel1995]

Right after he was the key figure in designing and building the V2 used to to attack London during WW2, produced by forced labor of POWs.

[@rolandstoger4925]

​@@marenhempel1995It was War!

[@rolandstoger4925]

@@marenhempel1995 And by the way - the two World Wars (in England also known as "The second Thirty Years War" - WHY???) were "constructed" to destroy the growing economical power of Germany since 1871. But the most Germans will never understand that fact!

[@7bloodyTears]

@@marenhempel1995 Since ALL of the nation around the world, including selfpropaganda heroes like America or Britain (rather especially them) did it, it matters exactly how? I don't see you putting them or their scientists down for their crimes.

[@GeschichtenUndGedanken]

I would say Gutenberg’s Bookprint, Konrad Röntgen (X-Rays), Helicopters, Automobiles, the TV, Aspirin, Jeans, the microphone. There is plenty to choose between.

[@Odin355]

100.000 invantions from germany. 💪🏻

[@AD-zo5vp]

Quantum mechanics (W. Heisenberg), record player, jet planes, rockets, some would also argue the telephone (Philip Reis), the computer (Konrad Zuse), even the computer mouse (Rollkugelzeiger)... It's rare though that an invention is brought about by a single person. Most often they develop in successive steps enabling or improving one another or are made multiple times independently of each other. Of course there are still the rare geniuses, like Laplace, Fourier, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Heisenberg....

[@GeschichtenUndGedanken]

A very interesting video, thank you and greetings from Germany.🇩🇪

[@bastianlucking7155]

As Gutenberg invented the printing press, books for first the Bible became affordable to the citizens, and alphabetisation spread about the country. Before that, reading was common at the abbys, churches and aristocratic houses only. By that, it was an important root for education and democracy. So it is far more important than one's expecting on the first view.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

He never invented "a press". He invented a new form to print on already existing presses. "Buchdruck mit verlorenen Lettern"

[@N_K12695]

Car, Aspirin, Jeans, Lightning Bulb, Telephone 1859 by Reis (1875 by Bell), Periodic System of Elements, Generator, Bike, Motorbike, Airplane, Relativity Theory, Television, COMPUTER...

[@olgahein4384]

2 corrections here: the fabric of jeans has been known and used in the late middle ages already, for the working class. And that is in the typical jeans blue color and weave. The Denim Jeans trousers were invented by a german guy named Levi and a russian guy named Strauss (of german descent) after thery moved to the USA and founded the Levi Strauss company. The other thing: The periodic system. During the time of its 'invention' there have been several scientists and scientific circles working on it. The basic idea of it was already known, the question was to make a chart by sorting it in a logical manner. It came down to 2 chemists: The german Meyer and the russian Mendeleyev, who worked on it independent from each other but when learning about the other, put more heart into it. The first one to public the periodic system for defence was Mendeleyev. Meyer published his several months later, incorporating the flaw of Mendeleyevs chart into his own. Then Mendeleyev published a corrected chart. I don't remember how long this went on and whose chart was then the final one. I personally see it as a great example of uninteded cooperation through healthy rivalry. Nontheless, the russian 'invented' it, as in made the first logically working one.

[@ekesandras1481]

@@olgahein4384 Levi Strauss (born Löb Strauß) was just one guy, not two.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

@@olgahein4384 the cloth is from France ("de Nimes"), the rough cut is from Genoa ("Jeans"). They had been combined to sailor gear for a long time before the californian goldrush lead to the modern form of Jeans. Levy Strauss (ONE guy, not two although i think he worked together with at least one brother), who was already in America at that time, not sure if he had the citizenship or not, only added those nifty little rivets at strongly used parts to make the trousers he sold last longer. Maybe even the small pocket for a watch also. As for Mendeleyev, that's basically the opposite way it went with Newton getting the laurels for "inventing Integral calculations" despite Leibnitz having had the same idea around the same time and giving it the form of notation we still use today, therefore havingt had the bigger impact on mathematics compared to Sir Issy... Mendeleyev may have had other ideas to work off from, but he gave it the form still in use today, including the numbering, atomic weight and such, thus his contribution was larger than most others having had other ideas to show a PTE...

[@stampcollector74]

Scots wha hae. ♥ I LOVE your dialect. Greetings from Germany.

[@Nothin-but-the-blues]

One of the inventions that saves literally thousands of lifes day by day: The differential pressure procedure that allows doctors to operate on the open chest without causing a fatal pneumothorax. The inventor Prof. Dr. Fedinand Sauerbruch was the leading surgeon in Germany throughout the first half of the 20th century. From 1912 to 1951 he was nominated almost sixty times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, but never received it! Nowadays, every operation room is a differential pressure chamber. The most important invention of the last thousand years world wide is and remains the printing press with movable letters by Johannes Gutenberg. Through this knowledge became a common good, and the dissemination of knowledge and information became the wheel that set the modern age in motion. There are only a few inventions that changed the world: The mastery of fire, the wheel, agriculture, the domestication of animals, house building, the urbanization and the nuclear power. The printing press and its further development and successors the Internet belong to them

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

too bad that the inventor of the Printing press is just as unknown as the first human to produce fire without a natural source like lightning strikes or volcanos... Gutenberg invented the process to print with single letters that were fixed in a frame to print and could then easily be reused for other page layouts. It's maybe the beginning of modern printing, but NOT the invention "of the press". You also forgot Electricity per se, Steampower, gearwork watches, sewers, anaesthesia, desinfection, antibiotics, (artificial) fertilizer, glass, bronze, steel, plastics, ceramics, paper, mass communication (from telegraphs over telephones to modern networks like the Internet) and oh so many things more that turned the world upside down.

[@stahlgewitter69]

the most important invention in the world in newer time was the book printing by Gutenberg. this invention let the middle age ending. books, newspapers, flyers etc. was possible to produce for the mass of the people... learning, informing, know more about the life and the world...

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Finally somebody that does not confuse the printing method and the "press" that was not changed or at least not by a lot. But it would take a lot of time until the printing process would actually become so mass compatible that it would produce newspapers and such as originally paper was rare and expensive in itself, needing a papermill to stomp down wood into the fibrous mass that then was washed and given shape in handheld forms, that were pressed and then dried as individual pages... only with the first glimmers of industrialisation after 1700 (around 200 years after Gutenberg) did you get the boost in output that would allow making print products so cheap basically everybody could afford them...

[@sbeyer17]

The CD actually is a joint contribution of Japan and Germany

[@Dalmen]

Konrad Zuse have invented the computer in 1941

[@justincredible5500]

Best development, the Haber Bosch process, for nitrate synthesis. The nutrition of ~3,000,000,000 people today depends on the resulting artificial fertilizer. Intended as a weapon, it instead allowed countless extra lives. 😎

[@h.s.3273]

Inventions for the further development of the automobile: Robert Bosch company, spark plug, anti-lock braking system, electronic stability program.

[@stojanovik69]

1. The Otto Motor engine used in Benzin car's 2. Siemens Aluminium melting oven , to get Aluminium with the help of electricity . For low cost production of Aluminium.

[@ixiwildflowerixi]

@7:25 Germany didn't invent the book. But until Gutenberg, producing a book meant painstakingly copying it by hand. Books were rare and expensive. So only the most fortunate had access to the knowledge stored in them. The printing press opened this up to the general populous.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Gutenberg has NOT contributed "the printing press" to the world, only the process of printing with loose letters... Seriously.

[@mweskamppp]

Giant magneto resistance, an effect that made hard discs for mass data storage possible.

[@alexanderpracher6753]

I think printing Press is the most important. Give knowledge to the people for decades.

[@juwen7908]

If you search for more videos about this topic, you will be surprised how much their are. Cause these 10 was only a little part of the most important german inventions...

[@tomtorres212]

Most important german invention (if not the most important in human history) - Gutenberg's printing press

[@endercat1707]

We are not without a reason famous for our Inventions and Quality.

[@valeriedavidson2785]

Britain has invented more than any other country in the world and Frank Whittle invented the jet engine and Alan Turing is the father of computers (he broke the German code in WWII). John Logie Baird invented the first TV. Frank Whittle patented the jet engine in the early 1930's. The German you mentioned copied Whittle's published papers. Britain also invented Radar.

[@MariaCurry]

You can all stop priding yourself on other people's inventions now. It doesn't matter if it were British people or German. None of them were us.@@valeriedavidson2785

[@oliverwtell]

@@valeriedavidson2785 What you state is mostly wrong. - Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain invented the jet engine. At least this fact is stated in the english Wikipedia. It is also stated there that Ohain had no knowledge of Whittle's work and Whittle himself believed this fact. - 'Alan Turing broke the enigma code' is another false fact of yours. The team from Bletchley Park broke the enigma code. Alan Turing was one the leading team members. Just to show you the dimensions of the teams: Hut 6 was one section of Bletchley Park and had over 450 people working for it. - In computer science worldwide, Z3 from Konrad Zuse and ENIAC (USA) are known for being the first computers. Collossus was also one of the ancestors of modern computers. But Collossus was operational more than 2 and a half year AFTER Z3. Another person who had great influence on the development of modern computers was John von Neuman (Hungarian/American but NEVER British !!!). Alan Turing's concept of a turing complete machine was applied to modern computers later. - 'The German you mentioned copied Whittle's published papers.' Utter nonsense of british wannebes. - 'John Logie Baird invented the first TV'. That is in fact correct. But fully unintentionally, you forgot to mention that the work of Mr. Baird is based on the work of Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, a German. - 'Britain also invented Radar.' 7/8 wrong, 1/8 correct. Quote from the english Wikipedia 'Before the Second World War, researchers in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, and the United States, independently and in great secrecy, developed technologies that led to the modern version of radar.' If you are a proud Brit, at least check your statements with the british version of Wikipedia. Otherwise you make your country laughable.

[@eksi3boyutu]

i am not german but, wenn you learn about the history of britain, they were fascinated from german too :) for example the english language is coming from german :)@@valeriedavidson2785

[@the_godfather9974]

The car is probably the most prestigious invention of Germany but maybe they were aiming for lesser known inventions in the video

[@DJKLProductions]

I think the car is one of the most inportant inventions ever. Why is it not in this list?

[@lilithiaabendstern6303]

the printing press coincides with Martin Luther - trendsetter of the century^^ not only was the first Bible printed in Germany, she was also printed in the german tounge, that would go on to become Standard High German - it was also the base for the new branch of Christianity, Protestantism, invented by Luther it's speculated that, without Gutenberg's printing press Protestantism wouldn't have had such a huge impact

[@Chiungalla79]

The most important one is missing: Haber process. It`s the process used around the world to get nitrogen out of the air in order to produce fertilizers. Without it famines would be a regular occurence and we would have far fewer humans on earth, since agriculture would not be able to sustain them. Everything else pales in comparison.

[@taniakrause9253]

For me personally, the most important German invention is the navigation system. Without it I'm lost 😂 Made by Bosch.

[@steveerbel9339]

“Das Land der Dichter und Denker” The land of poets and thinkers.

[@padinspi11]

I think the 3 most important ones would be: -the printing press. Absolutely revolutionised the spreading of information -cars. Wether you see them as good or bad it is undeniable they massively changed the world and transportation -Haber's synthetic process for producing fertilizers. We would probably never have passes the 3 billion mark without this

[@MrHaggyy]

German science and engineering is nuts. Many people forget about Keplar, Gauss and Hilbert who basically unified math for academia which was later used for most schools. Also Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Hahn started all of quantum physics and those like Oppenheimer, Bohr and Feynman who were not german studied in german or during the war learned german to read the original papers.

[@eksi3boyutu]

Bro why are you writing here false informations. They were german too but not christ. That"s all.

[@menju32]

No.2: Coffee filter - Is this guy kidding me? In comparision to other german inventions: Diesel engine, Otto engine, the car (!), the skin patch, rockets, the jet plane and last but not least Cocaine - lol 😅

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

addicts will say a lot of stupid things. But cocaine is not a german invention, you might confuse it with Heroin, which started out as brandname by german chemo corporation Bayer.

[@hhhhaaaallllloooo]

Also an important German invention for the modern world is the Haber Bosch process (early 20th century) by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch. (Good or bad? I can't tell)

[@Soulscreamer7]

First airplane check, first car check, first bike check, first motorcycle check, first petrol engine and diesel engine check hm almost the entire transport system was invented in or by Germans.

[@t.sommers6121]

Most important German invention, maybe most important invention generally was the Gutenberg printing press.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

he did NOT invent a "printing press", he invented the method of printing with exchangeable letters in very standard presses everybody already knew.

[@t.sommers6121]

@@Ugly_German_Truths yes, he invented the “GUTENBERG printing press.”

[@meganoob12]

In German X-rays are actually even named Röntgenstrahlen (Röntgen rays).

[@Nelson-Man]

The Haber-Bosch process (Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch) enabled the production of fertilizers.

[@autarchprinceps]

The most important by far is Haber-Bosch. It is a chemical process to convert Nitrogen from the air into Ammonia, which is used for a lot of things, but most importantly the primary source for synthetic fertiliser. Without it billions would die of starvation, as the majority of the world is only fed by the increase in food production because of these fertilisers. This process produces 99% of the worlds ammonia to this day. 3 independent Nobel prices were given out to parts of its development in 1918, 1931 & 2007. 150 million tons are produced in this fashion, consuming on its own 1.4% of all power produced world wide.

[@bennyhannover9361]

The science of agrochemicals started with Justus von Liebig around 1840, he developed the first nitrogen and trace chemical based fertilizer. He found the beef extract to make a bouillon soup from a little cube. Many poor families had less starvation because of him.

[@maja-kehn9130]

I´m German, I knew about all of the inventions except the chip. That surprised me. Thanks for this video!

[@davidjones-bh5xg]

Best Scottish Inventions: Telephone (Bell) Penecillin (Flemming Stem Engine (Watt) Television (Baird) Refigerator (Dewar) The Sport Golf :D

[@peterbeilnhuber5040]

🔴 Well, there is a german invention that somehow didn't make it. It's a Diesel Engine dev by Audi some 30 years ago, consuming only 1.7 litres average. The TV coverage is still online. Google _Audi Diesel 1.7 Liter_ will do the job.

[@Piretfreak87]

Gutenbergs invention also contributed to the cause of Martin Luther who translated the existing Bible into common German language and with Gutenbergs invention he was able to print lots of it and get it out to the German people. This led to the church devide into two. Catholic and Protestant church....and the 30 years war...

[@AGermanFencer]

Car - Benz Bike - Dreis Tractor - Lanz Electric elevator - Siemens All of these are not only german inventions (you could strongly argue for) but all made in and/or tested first in the city of Mannheim alone :)

[@CirTap]

Gutenberg's printing press obviously had the biggest impact to conserve and spread knowledge 🤓

[@jensschroder8214]

The Germans also invented the countdown for the flight to the moon in 1926. Yes, that's right. In the radio play "Peter's Moon Trip" the numbers are 3, 2, 1, go! Then Peter is shot at the moon with the cannon. But Wernher von Braun was also a native German and developed the moon rocket. He knew the story from his childhood.

[@Gerhard_S]

The Industrial Nitrogen Fixation by Fritz Haber & Carl Bosch allowed the big scale production of artificial vertilizer and nitrogen based explosives without denpendecy on ammonia mining. -> Both (bomds and vertilizer) had/have an enormous impact on the world.

[@yodadolphin1]

The Car was another german invention and the Helikopter, gummi bears , asprin aso.

[@nutzeeer]

As a german i like inventing stuff

[@rolf-dieterkaschke1734]

Otto - petrol engine, Braun - first rocket, Siemens - electrical generator, von Ardenne - TV, Reis - phone (at least same impact as Bell) +++

[@tnaplastic2182]

One out of 3 inventions came out of Germany... Bicycle, motorcycle, car, solar cells, the computer, the TV, Diesel engine, gasoline engine, electric generator, jet engine, etc. etc.

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

is that more than are claimed by Scotland? (rubber, locomotives, telephones... i don't remember nearly enough but the typical online list is ridiculously long...)

[@tnaplastic2182]

10:47 It is NOT "MPEG Layer 3", but "MPEG I (1) Layer III (3)"!!!

[@mah1ro267]

Greatest German invention: the bra ;) But the other stuff is nice too. Like the first healthcare insurance system since the 1870s - while the USA has still not established one today and basically half of the medical inventions in general.

[@arnodobler1096]

Rudolf Diesel has disappeared on the sea passage to GB!

[@hajovelt3083]

A little correction to the invention of mp3 and MPEG: the correct writing is 'Fraunhofer Institut'...

[@rolandstoger4925]

First I have to say - I love Your dialect!!! ❤ Ok - more german inventions: The Bycicle, invented by Karl von Drais in the early 19th Century. The first telegraph, invented by Phillip Reis, which was developed later to the first telephone by Graham Bell. The first television, invented by Manfred von Ardenne in 1930. The first "Open heart surgery" practiced by Ferdinand Sauerbruch. A big part of the medical science was developed in Germany. The american Writer Mark Twain told in his work "A Journey through Germany" about an american student he met during his trip through Germany in the end of the 19th Century, who intended to perfect his knowledge of German, cause he wanted to study medicine in the USA. Good knowledges of German were a prerequisite worldwide for studying medicine at the time, cause the mainpart of medical literature was written by german scientists in German. Also the most important engine near the "Dieselmotor" , the "Ottomotor" was invented by a German, named Nikolaus August Otto in 1862. The next engine - the "Wankelmotor" a very efficient type of motor, was developed by Felix Wankel in 1954. Also the "Fax", a telecomunication device was a german invention, developed by Rudolph Hell in the 1970 Years. He was also involved in the development of the first Television in the end of the 1920th, together with the German Manfred von Ardenne - I wrote it in initially. The first Computer, developed by Konrad Zuse in the 1930th. The first functional roket, developed by Wernher von Braun during the Second World War. The first Jet Plane and simultaneously the first stealth bomber, also developed in Germany in the end of the WW2. I find Your interest in the German Spirit of innovation very remarkable and likable. Thanks very much for this! Greetings and best wishes from Germany.

[@AlgorithmicChaos]

also more controvercial: The Haber-Bosch process for creating ammonia, which is used as the primary component in fertilizers, Fritz haber sadly was also heavily involved in using it for chemical weapons development.

[@intarsienschrankzwetschgen4224]

Rudolf Diesel (the guy with the isobaric engine) also wrote a social utopia called Solidarism. You might want to take a look into this text.

[@soundofnellody262]

Most important invention imo: the printing press. Giving everyone access to knowledge.

[@adur6400]

A german also invented something that led to the mass population we have today: the artificial fertilizer

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

Wasn't that Fritz Huber, the same man that invented half the poison gasses used in WW1 (which ultimately lead him to commit suicide IIRC?)

[@adur6400]

@@Ugly_German_Truths you're god damn right (what a fitting pfp name xD )

[@Djegosandra]

I didn't know about he electron microscope, magnetic tape recorder, coffee filter and chip cards despite being raised in Germany. What I missed was the process to cheaply mass produce ammonia for fertilzer.

[@Arsenic71]

7:55 Yes absolutely correct, James Clerk Maxwell was Scottish and he found some of the most important equations to this day. But as you know, if something good comes out of Scotland it's labelled British, whereas anything good coming out of England it's called English. B*stards! 😉😅 In Germany X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, after Conrad Röntgen. I guess the Umlaut is too hard for the rest of the world so they just call them X-rays. Fun fact: Albert Einstein did not receive a Nobel Prize for his Special or General Theory of Relativity (one of the most important theories in history) but for the discovery of the photo-electric effect (the basis of solar cells).

[@klausbiegerfac.cs.naturale1392]

When Röntgen publishe on his newly discovered rays he himself called them "X-rays". Once the importance of the findings was established his German colleagues proposed to name the rays "Röntgen-rays" in his honor. The proposal was accepted in Germany but the rest of the world went on calling his discovery "X-rays".

[@hy-drenalin8211]

Let´s find out what ya say after this, my friend! 🤣

[@saschathinius7082]

Printing with the movable letters, by Gutenberg... i think that's the number one

[@rvsneveren]

It is already mentioned in other comments, but I'm really shocked that the automobile is not on this list.

[@nikitaeurope]

Other German inventions: Bike, Motocycle, Car, Record Player, MP3 Player, Telephone, Radio, TV, Camera, Computer, Jet Engine, Rocket, Bookprinting, Scanner, Aspirin, Koffiefilter, Toothpaste, X-Ray Machine.

[@tomsite2901uk]

There is more: The Telephone in 1859 by Johann Philip Reis, Graham Bell developed it further and got the patent in 1875. Still, a german invention. The periodic system by Lothar Meyer. The dynamo in 1866 by Werner von Siemens. The Motorbike n 1886 by Carl Benz, Aspirin (painkiller) in 1897 by Felix Hoffmann, then of course Albert Einstein and his relativity theory in 1915, gummi bears in 1922 by Hans Riegel, Computers in 1938 by Conrad Zuse. Then we have Airbags from 1981 by Mercedes Benz, Contact lenses from 1987 by Adolf Eugen Fick, Helicopter 1932 by Heinrich Focke, Jeans (invented by a german, however in California) 1873 by Levi Strauss, jet-engine in 1933 by Hans von Ohain, Record Player in 1887 by Emil Berliner (he also invented the microphone), the fridge in 1876 by Carl von Linde,. There are also many discoveries, for example the nuclear fision in 1938 by Otto Hahn, bacteria... the list is almost endless. And no, the US didn't invent the world and everything on it.

[@Ul.B]

However, the forefather and one of the inventors of the airbag, Walter Linderer, applied for a patent for the airbag in 1951. With a system presented in the USA in 1968, Allen Breed (Breed Technologies) is considered a pioneer of modern airbag technology.

[@hansdietrich1496]

No idea after which criteria they choose these inventions, but that one should definitely be on the list: Fertilizer, invented by Fritz haber, allowed the world population to grow from one billion to what we have now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6fOn4Fubq-ijdE

[@Kivas_Fajo]

The Teddy bear from Steiff, the drill, the car...all from Stuttgart, Germany.

[@Ul.B]

Steiff teddy bears come from Giengen an der Brenz and the first car was built in Mannheim.

[@eagle1de227]

In these top ten videos they ever forget the most important ones: The automobile, the computer, the TV, the bicycle, The rocket, Aspirin,...

[@rockmutti]

I'm now living im Hamburg, but I'm from Flensburg, which in my opinion is the most beautiful city in Germany. I love the north of Germany

[@HenryAusLuebeck]

Vergiss nicht meine Heimatstadt: Due to its characteristic shape, the traffic cone is often referred to as a pylon or traffic cone. The term warning cone is also common. The name "Lübecker Hütchen" is a reminder of the place where the traffic cone was invented in 1952.

[@Fotoschiki]

Don't forget the fridge

[@wokeaf1337]

The Nazis used the first fighter jet during ww2, they had a prototype Messerschmitt Me 262 , that was ready for action in late 1944, however there was not enough time left to mass produce it. Following the end of ww2, German jet aircraft and jet engines were studied extensively by the victorious Allies and helped make the USSR and USA a superpower.

[@aliceestate3899]

Before that, 550 years ago, written Bibles were only for the clergy, Gutenberg made it possible for the public, because of a massproduction, to get and read the Bible, and they found that it didn't say anything about indulgences, which made people poor and scared them of hell if they didn't pay. 50 years later, in 1517, the monk Martin Luther (later on a name that a man gave his son as first name in the USA M.L. King) in Wittenberg/Germany protested against the sale of indulgences, got into trouble with the Pope and some kings and rulers and therefore founded the Protestant religion, protected by other rulers who neither wanted to pay for a place in heaven after death.

[@maze200sx]

Don't forget mustard-gas ( unfortunate invention) and the first practical rockets. The Aggregat 4 (infamously known as V2) was the first human created object to reach space.

[@jensbuschbaum7353]

Plus 'we invwnted' the automobile (Karl Benz, who's first item he named after his wife's prename mercedes) , television (Braunsche Röhre, later adding the best color sytem PAÖ by another inventor) and the fluids that are keeping refridgerators. cold inside (Carl von Linde). On the negative side Germans invented poison gas which was used in WW I, discovered the splitting of the atom and, sadly, the industrial extinction of life by improving a British invention - the concentration camp. Oh, let's not forget the Covid vaccine by Biontech (Mainz) which led to the connection to Pfizer USA. Mainz has made plenty of tax money during the Covid pandemic. An old legal invention, if you may, was the Bavarian law of the purity of beer which prescribed clean water and just a few ingredients as brewing material - about 500 years ago. And - praise to the Scots: they kept one ovarall celtic invention alive: the invention of weaving plaid patterns. Given the widespread array of different Celtic tribes from Gaulle via Germany, partly Switzerland and Austria up to the Norther and Baltic sea up to Scotland, it were the Scottish Clan traditions that created the tartan and with it, the plaid patterns and how to produce them. BTW: did you know that Chinese archeologists found a grave within one of todays China in a Western desert? About 200 well preserved mummyfied corpses from a time that China didn't exist as an empire or state? Men and fewer females, red haired and starwberry blonde who were wearing plaid. An ancient trade caravan from the wild north to the Far East, maybe?

[@feelthevibe7289]

Nice Reactions, could really recommend watching the Video from Geography Now about Germany, very informative and funny.

[@tzmtzt]

The Haber Bosch Verfahren is by far the most influencial invention i can think of. Basically all fertilizer production since the 19th century is based on that. well and also explosives/ Ammunition 😅

[@mortanos8938]

This list is missing some of the more important invention and discoveries such as the Jet engine (Hans von Ohain) for which the English now take credit (Frank Whittle), or rocket propulsion (Werner von Braun) which led to space travel, so I fail to grasp why they are not up there and instead you have the inventor of a feckin coffee filter. That's Bollocks ! Btw. James Clerk Maxwell was indeed Scottish.

[@bettinaknoll2400]

It was very interesting. But I think it's also important to know that first computer comes from Germany....

[@mickypescatore9656]

🧐🤔Oh, this is interesting: your scotish accent sometimes sounds nearly similar to german and is different to the worldwide spoken english (for example in the way you pronounce "books". The "dobble-o" in "books" sounds a little bit like the german "ü" (this letter is a combination of "u" and "e", spoken at the same time!). The german word for "books" ist "Bücher". ("ch" in "Bücher" changed to "k" in english apparently). But sometimes in the german speach "ch" is also spoken als "k". -Another very good example is how you say "bibel", nearly german!!! -Really fascinating!!! 😊I am amazed! 😆😊

[@nephilim2582]

Die germanische Sprache ist die älteste in Europa!

[@uwelohr7958]

Not, it doesn't sound similar

[@Irobert1115HD]

the year is 1918 and explosions rock the city of paris. everyone is searching for a airship but what only the germans know: there is no airship. just two railway canons with such a comicaly long range that the ballistic trajectory brings the projectiles above the karman line and there has the fly through space for a short bit. and now a funny story: the two inventors of the jet engine joachim ohain and frank whittle where once brought into the same room so that they coudl finaly decide the discussion who invented the jet engine. they concluded that they where both the first as ohain had managed to get his engine running first but whittle had the idea first.

[@michaelkrumbachner1021]

Hello, i have a German "Sprichwort" for Today's Teme Video. "Am Deutschen Wesen wird die Welt genesen" . Best wishes from Bavaria