5 MAJOR INVENTIONS you didn't know were GERMAN! | Feli from Germany

▸My home country Germany is generally known for a few different things – you may think of beer, Oktoberfest, soccer, and of course, German engineering. The list of German inventions is looooong! Some of them are pretty well known – such as the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg – others, however, not so much. That's why in this video, I’m telling you about 5 major inventions you didn’t know were German!

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0:00 German inventions are everywhere!
1:15 Invention 1
3:52 Invention 2
8:15 Invention 3
11:07 Invention 4
13:26 Invention 5
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ABOUT ME: Hallo, Servus, and welcome to my channel! My name is Felicia (Feli), I'm 29, and I'm a German living in the USA! I was born and raised in Munich, Germany but have been living in Cincinnati, Ohio off and on since 2016. I first came here for an exchange semester during my undergrad at LMU Munich, then I returned for an internship, and then I got my master's degree in Cincinnati. I was lucky enough to win the Green Card lottery and have been a permanent resident since 2019! In my videos, I talk about cultural differences between America and Germany, things I like and dislike about living here, and other topics I come across in my everyday life in the States. Let me know what YOU would like to hear about in the comments below. DANKE :)
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[FelifromGermany]

Did you know that these inventions were German? I didn't even know about #3 until the movie came out this year! 😅

[Likr]

I think the german invention, that changed the world most, was Johannes Gutenberg inventing the press for books. It increased the speed of storing and spreading knowledge in a way, that es never happened before. Reading and learning the knowledge of generations was limited to only few privileged people. Science before books was extremely slow, because education and spreading science was nearly impossible,

[johnkc]

I work in a hospital, and one of the greatest things we use in the hospital is a Central Venous Catheter. A German physician Werner Theodor Otto Forssman. He invented the “central line” in 1929 by performing the procedure on himself. He also shared a 1956 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine along with Andre Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards, for the Cardiac catheterization. Nowadays we just it a “Heart Cath” a procedure looking, under x-ray (fluoroscopy) inject a dye in order to visualize the coronary arteries.
In radiology school, we did a lot of studies on Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. We saw the same photo of his wife’s hand.

[christophermancey]

I’m from the UK and love these videos, I’ve grown up loving a lot of American culture and as an adult find German culture amazing. I’ve just started to learn German off the back of these videos, using Kleo.

[jayvee]

Feli, the Fanta topic reminded me of a 1961 movie titled 1, 2, 3 about an American Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin.

[JulieEnglert-cjhv]

I just thought I’d mention that physicist Max Born, who supervised Robert Oppenheimer while he studied for his PHD; was actually Olivia Newton-John’s grandfather.

[hglundahl]

As I am much more of a coffeeholic than an alcoholic, I have used _her_ invention a lot in my life:

Melitta Bentz: Hausfrau und Mutter, entwickelte 1908 den Kaffeefilter.

Did you know the two highest coffee consuming nations in the world are 1) Finns and 2) Swedes? And, both of us often use the Melitta-filter. It's an actual trademark of coffee filters in Sweden.

[JerryJerow]

This teacher really enjoyed this lesson.

[pigoff]

I lived in Hanau from 72 to 96. Used to go back every year to see my mom until she moved to Stuttgart in 2012.

[jamesvandemark]

In my first year German class, Barbie was revealed to be German. The girls in the room became irrationally excited. Our clever teacher smiled! 😎

[JonathanReynolds]

Feli, I thought you were going to mention Wernher von Braun, the German Physicist, who helped start the American Space Program! 🇺🇸🌎🚀

[Jeffrey-rc]

Feli is an incredible spokesperson. So much so that i took up studying German about six months ago. I had no idea all the crazy grammar rules i was walking into lol. But it is great for brain health i guess 😂

[thai-tanic]

Totally agree with you but all these inventions are quite modern. In my opinion the most important invention from Germany which had a significant impact on world history was the letterpress printing invented by Guttenberg in 1450. Only with his invention it was possible to multiply books or other text documents very easy and fast in a very high number

[jeffhampton]

Germany is very famous for creating beautiful porcelain objects back in the Seventeen and eighteen hundreds and before that, they are very famous for their porcelain dolls. As an antique dealer I really appreciate the beautiful antiques and art we have from Germany, also I love German food. Even though I am American my ancestry comes from Europe, German, polish, Irish, British, Welsh, Ukraine, Sweden. Yes I am a mixed European American.

[jonwesick]

Don't forget the Haber process for synthesizing ammonia.

[janfg]

The first paper handkerchiefs where also invented in Germany in the 20s, the original brand "Tempo" still exists today. Like every German i grew up blowing my nose with them :D

[joseph.irvin.photography]

Besides Leitz/Leica's invention of the 35mm camera, you also have lens company Carl Zeiss which 150-something years ago started inventing a lot of lens designs that are still today, like the Tessar, Planar, Sonnar, etc. Lots of brilliant folks in Germany inventing useful things!

[hglundahl]

This guy deserves more fame:

Karl Drais: Forstlehrer und bedeutender Erfinder in der Goethezeit, u. a. Fahrrad und Schreibmaschine, 1821

[aikidragonpiper]

Johannes Jacob Beam immigrated from Germany to Kentucky in 1752. He and his descendants started the famous American Bourbon brand Jim Beam. It’s argued who created Bourbon first but he was one of the first. Their name in the 18th century was originally Bohm and they changed their surname to Beam.

[coupdeforce]

Have you ever seen the ShamWow ad with Vince Offer? One of the best lines is "you know the Germans always make good stuff".