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

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

This is my reaction to Top 10 German Inventions That Changed The World

Subtitles are available in German (and English)

[hape]

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.

[veryincognito]

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)

[michaelkuschnefsky]

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.

[lynndaria]

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

[dac]

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.

[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).

[martinaklee-webster]

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.

[bjornd]

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)

[MK-xcto]

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 .

[pixelbartus]

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

[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.

[s.h.]

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.

[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

[erire]

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.

[Tyrkir]

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

[h.s.]

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.

[stevyyjay]

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. <3

[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.