German inventions

[ficuscarica]

Unbelievable, but true. Germans invented/discovered (list not exhaustive):

Socially
- Book Printing
- The Reformation
- Social Legislation (insurance, welfare, etc)

Technology
- The Computer
- The Bicycle
- The Motorbike
- Diesel Engine
- The Car
- The Airplane
- The Jet Engine
- The Helicopter
- The first Light-Rail (Tram)
- Trans Rapid Train
- Maglev Train
- Scanners
- MP3
- The first portable camera
- Television
- The first telephone
- The Fridge
- The Chipcard
- Jeans
- Audio Tapes
- The Zeppelin
- Airbags

Science
- Quantum Mechanics
- Nuclear Fusion
- Relativity Theory
- First Periodic Table

Medicine
- Morphine
- Aspirin
- X-Rays
- Bacteriology


=> In short basically all modern transportation and much if not most of modern communication and medicine - or simply: modern life. Many Anglos try to hold us down, which they can do because they ganged up on us. But facts stay facts.

I know, hard to swallow. Now good luck with finding excuses why in reality other people invented it. :D

http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/sig/gem/top/enindex.htm

[King Claus]

-gasschambers
-fine crafted human leather lamps
-Human Soap
-stg 44

[ficuscarica]

BUMP

[Arrow Cross]

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[Graham]

Cough cough, a few there aren't German. Good list none the less.

[ficuscarica]

Cough cough, a few there aren't German. Good list none the less.

They are. I checked it. Some people just don´t know the details and have misconceptions. ;)

[Graham]

They are. I checked it. Some people just don´t know the details and have misconceptions. ;)

A few of those are improvements of original working inventions.

In itself, is just as good.

Don't agree with the word 'invention' here.

For example, artificial refrigeration is older..Germans made it better
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigeration

[Don Arb]

Deutschland uber alles!

[ficuscarica]

A few of those are improvements of original working inventions.

In itself, is just as good.

Don't agree with the word 'invention' here.

For example, artificial refrigeration is older..Germans made it better
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigeration

Using these standarts nobody but the first 20 cavemen ever invented anything. ;)

[iNird]

David Hasselhoff is German thus all your inventions have been negated.

:coffee:

[Graham]

Using these standarts nobody but the first 20 cavemen ever invented anything. ;)

It's ok then for Multiple countries to claim one invention then...:D

We'd have a big fucking fucking list, for a small nation.

We played a small tiny part in the Automobiles & Bikes..David Dunbar Buick & John Boyd Dunlop. :p

Germans make things good.

[ficuscarica]

It's ok then for Multiple countries to claim one invention then...:D

We'd have a big fucking fucking list, for a small nation.

We played a small tiny part in the Automobiles..David Dunbar Buick & John Boyd Dunlop. :p

Germans make things good.

Nah, the inventions or discoveries in the list are usually considered as genuinely German, because Germans created the first, fully functioning versions. :)

[Graham]

First fully functioning telephone was from a Scot though?

You know a communication device for which people can speak into over a distance.

[ficuscarica]

First fully functioning telephone was from a Scot though?

You know a communication device for which people can speak into over a distance.



I told you that I checked it before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Reis

1860, he constructed the first prototype of a telephone, which could cover a distance of 100 meters. In 1862, he again tried to interest Poggendorff with an account of his "telephon", as he called it.[
The first working telephone was constructed by a German, he just didn´t have commercial success.

[Graham]

The link you gave says...


Telephone – The Artificial Ear Alexander Graham Bell is generally credited as the inventor of the telephone. But it was Phillip Reis, a young science teacher from Germany, who developed the first functioning device in 1860 which he named “Das Phone”. Unfortunately, the Reis telephone was not practical enough to be a commercial success. It could transmit sound, but it was difficult to understand the spoken word.

wiki says

In 1860 Johann Philipp Reis was the first who produced a functioning electromagnetic device that could transmit musical notes, indistinct speech, and occasionally distinct speech by means of electric signals.

[ficuscarica]

The link you gave says...


wiki says

You see: Even the word is a German idea. :D
The sound was just not yet fully clear all the time.

[Balmung]

I'd say as single nations France & Germany have actually invented more than England or Scotland. England & Scotland only have the upper hand when they cheat, and join forces as "British" :lol:

Also you forgot the modern Flamethrower! I thought of it because i just heard about it in Far Cry 3. The jokes were funny, if not dark "Yeah i tell ya, the Germans know how to set things on fire".

[ficuscarica]

I'd say as single nations France & Germany have actually invented more than England or Scotland. England & Scotland only have the upper hand when they cheat, and join forces as "British" :lol:

Also you forgot the modern Flamethrower! I thought of it because i just heard about it in Far Cry 3. The jokes were funny, if not dark "Yeah i tell ya, the Germans know how to set things on fire".

I didn´t forget the modern flamethrower, but I tried to focus on inventions and discoveries that are relevant or even crucial for modern life.
I don´t think it is exaggerated to say that approx. 50% or more of modern life are German based.

Personally I think that the Brits and Scots invented more than the French. They are the only ones who could maybe (but probably not really) compete with Germans in the area of the most important modern inventions.

[morski]

David Hasselhoff is German thus all your inventions have been negated.

:coffee:

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/32251845.jpg

[Graham]

The Reformation, has to be one of the biggest in that list. If not the biggest.

[Balmung]

^ The French are pretty much on par with Germany & Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_inventions_and_discoveries

[ficuscarica]

The Reformation, has to be one of the biggest in that list. If not the biggest.

I think book printing, cars, the computer and nuclear fusion (practically the source for almost all electritiy - the basis of modern life) are just as important. They are absolutely essential for the modern world.

[ficuscarica]

^ The French are pretty much on par with Germany & Britain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_inventions_and_discoveries

Many of the inventions that are listed and that are really relevant are commonly acknowledged as German inventions (just check the wiki articles on the bicycle or the helicopter). :D:picard1:
I am really sure that the French did not contribute as much as the Germans or the Brits to the post-industrial revolution world.

[Graham]

I think book printing, cars, the computer and nuclear fusion (practically the source for almost all electritiy - the basis of modern life) are just as important. They are absolutely essential for the modern world.

You're right..But things could have turned out very different for Northern Europe & America. Like the Butterfly effect.

[Balmung]

Its the same thing with Britain/Germany.

People will always argue over who actualy invented Computers, Televisions etc because many people made different versions of them. Thats why on the page on computers they list like 7 of them each being the first in doing whatever they did.

[ficuscarica]

Its the same thing with Britain/Germany.

People will always argue over who actualy invented Computers, Televisions etc because many people made different versions of them. Thats why on the page on computers they list like 7 of them each being the first in doing whatever they did.

Not really. The main inventions the French claim to have invented are commonly acknowledged as German. Just read the wiki articles on Aspirin, the bicycle or the helicopter for example.

[Graham]

German invented the bike. But where is the peddle & chain? meh.. :P

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Draisine_or_Laufmaschine%2C_around_1820._Archetype _of_the_Bicycle._Pic_01.jpg/800px-Draisine_or_Laufmaschine%2C_around_1820._Archetype _of_the_Bicycle._Pic_01.jpg

[ficuscarica]

German invented the bike. But where is the peddle & chain? meh.. :P

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Draisine_or_Laufmaschine%2C_around_1820._Archetype _of_the_Bicycle._Pic_01.jpg/800px-Draisine_or_Laufmaschine%2C_around_1820._Archetype _of_the_Bicycle._Pic_01.jpg

bi-cycle = two-wheeler :thumb001::D

[Graham]

Surely some nutcase thousands of years ago. Decided to modify their Chariot.

[ficuscarica]

Surely some nutcase thousands of years ago. Decided to modify their Chariot.

Must have been one of those Greeks - who (think they) invented civilization and Europe. :D

[Hochmeister]

Germans also invented the reflecting material.

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff237/mechBgon/iron-on_tape_2.jpg

[Balmung]

Anyway you forgot.

- Laws of planetary motion
- Contributions to wireless telegraphy
- Statistics
- Founded Psychoanalysis
- Refractometer
- Discovery that viruses become resistant to drugs.
- Set Theory
- Fax machine
- Spectroscopy

All more relevant than Jeans :P and jeans were by an American! how dare you steal our inventions!

[SKYNET]

Inventions? Okay.



Albion


Scottish inventions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries


Irish inventions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_inventions_and_discoveries


English inventions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_inventions_and_discoveries

[Graham]

Statistics lol...

That's the kind of silly thing a Scot would claim.

[ficuscarica]

Anyway you forgot.

- Laws of planetary motion
- Contributions to wireless telegraphy
- Statistics
- Founded Psychoanalysis
- Refractometer
- Discovery that viruses become resistant to drugs.
- Set Theory
- Fax machine
- Spectroscopy

All more relevant than Jeans :P and jeans were by an American! how dare you steal our inventions!

It was a German who had come to America, but was born in Germany. :p

[Balmung]

Statistics lol...

That's the kind of silly thing a Scot would claim.


They are relevant no? They are used in everything today.

[Graham]

The English may claim that with the Domesday Book.

[SKYNET]

Anyway you forgot.

- Laws of planetary motion
- Contributions to wireless telegraphy
- Statistics
- Founded Psychoanalysis
- Refractometer
- Discovery that viruses become resistant to drugs.
- Set Theory
- Fax machine
- Spectroscopy

All more relevant than Jeans :P and jeans were by an American! how dare you steal our inventions!



you have forgotten the computers :)



American inventions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_inventions ;)

[Balmung]

Statistics go back to BC but Carl Friedrich Gauss, was the one who originated Gaussian function.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_function

Adding on to the thread.

Germans were also the first to clone an animal.

[Žołnir]

German people made many great things but now when they are canceling nulcear power, etc. I think they are destroying their potentials and technology. Renewable energy isn't what they propagate. btw. I know this kind of off topic but still.

[LouisFerdinand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOcK9QTFAE

[Iloko]

Germans and Japanese must be among the greatest engineers!

[RenaRyuguu]

Here are pictures of the Zeppelin:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UcwUjvUXb3c/T6iOQQ6iFAI/AAAAAAAADGE/SPBR6WLa2Mo/s1600/LandingFriedrichshafen.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Zeppellin_NT_amk.JPG/1200px-Zeppellin_NT_amk.JPG

http://i1.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/article6860221.ece/alternates/s2197/Zeppelin-Dreams.jpg

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Graf-Zeppelin-draws-a-crowd.jpg

http://dybiz.com/sites_randomblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/hindenburg_explodes_zepplin.jpg