5 GERMAN INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD! #germany #shortsviral

Just an American trying to learn more about and Germany and the rest of Europe.

Today we're gonna check out 5 GERMAN INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD!

[jpj]

Here's my list of German inventions that changed the world:
1856: Invention of the dynamo - Werner von Siemens
1861: Invention of the internal combustion engine - Nikolaus Otto
1909: Invention of ammonia synthesis - Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch
1938: Invention of the programmable computer - Konrad Zuse

Add to that breakthrough German discoveries:
1543: Discovery of Heliocentrism - Nikolaus Kopernicus
1850: Discovery of the second law of thermodynamics - Rudolf Clausius
1854: Discovery of complex analysis - Bernhard Riemann
1865: Discovery of genetics - Gregor Mendel
1885: Discovery of radio waves - Heinrich Hertz
1885: Discovery of bacteriology - Robert Koch
1895: Discovery of X-rays - Wilhelm Röntgen
1900: Discovery of quantum mechanics - Max Planck
1915: Discovery of the laws of general relativity - Albert Einstein
1938: Discovery of nuclear fission - Otto Hahn and Fritz Stassmanns

[エルフェンリート-li]

What about nitrogen fertilizer? The Haber-Bosch-process is the main reason for why we can grow so much food since after WW2.

[doctorsommer]

Grüße aus Mainz…Home of Johannes Gutenberg! Funfact…his Name of Birth is Johannes Gensfleisch btw

[siboslice]

What about the "Reinheitsgebot" for beer

[robert]

Even the entire car. Daimler Benz. It was invented over here in Mannheim

[fairgreen]

The printing press is the all time number 1.
With it regular people had an opportunity to learn to read and so much changed culturally after that.

[arnodobler]

Diesel, Otto and Wankel engines, Aspirin, ...

[Cheepchipsable]

People all over the world were working on these ideas, so I don't think it's fair to say one person exclusively created the finished product.

It was quite common to publish ideas on machinery that everyone read, and either reproduced or improved on.

[annabellebartaune]

You should have mentioned the Computer, invested by Zuse

[_Ordinace_]

i thought the contact lens was made by Otto Wichterle from Czechoslovakia

[schweincraft]

Based on the diesel engine, Germany also invented the first car

I once heard, America teaches their children that Henry Ford did that, and no, he didn't

[kenninast]

Contact lenses, 1801, Thomas Young. He neither invented it, nor was he German. He was British.

[hasonalit]

The lighter was also invented by a German guy

[autarchprinceps]

These lists need to start to include Haber-Bosch. We would have literally run out of food long ago without synthetic fertilizers.
Parts of it won 3 separate Nobel prizes, 1918, 1931 & 2007.
It is responsible for 99% of worldwide ammonia production at over 150 million tonnes, consumes 1.4% of all energy used worldwide on its own. 20% is also used for things other than fertilizer, so lots of other stuff wouldn't work without it either.

[Chefkoch]

Dont for get the a-bomb and the rocket tech.😅

[stuborn-complaining-german]

Bunsen did not create or invent the Bunsenburner. It was invented by Michael Faraday (British...) and improoved by Peter Desaga, a precision engineer at the university of Heidelberg. He built the laboratory instruments to equip a new state of the art laboratory that was being prepared for Robert Bunsen who was about to come to Heidelberg to do research there. 😅

[cheeseant]

The electron microscope, invented by Charles Electron and Gustav microscope in 1896

[eaglede]

Not bad, not bad, but imho the automobile and the computer are more important. Not to forget the Döner !!!

[xxjunkxx]

Konrad Zuse with the first computer 😃 but i think, not all american people accept this

[LETMino]

I'd add the car, first bicycle and first computer.