The Haber process.
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Fanta
TV and TV propaganda
Gutenberg printing press
The Chinese invented movable type printing presses ~500 years before Gutenberg. The process was refined in Korea after that and made its way west. Gutenberg likely adapted and popularized the existing processes into the western industrialization movement.
Don’t say that too loud, you shatter the western / white superiority complex. :<
That’s why I specified the Gutenberg printing press, which is distinct from previous ones. I did not say they invented printing…
Touche
The Disk of Phaistos was printed with stamps (movable type) between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C. according to Yves Duhoux. Predating the Chinese by millennia.
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Everyone knows they invented the Haber-Bosch process. Pretty important shit.
And Haber of Haber-Bosch fame also invented using poisonous gas as a weapon in WW1.
Don’t get me started on the Haber process. My students will tell you that I can and will go on for half an hour about how it prolonged WW1 and is one of the first commercial processes to make use of Le Chateliers principle.
Also, probably best not to spend too much time idolizing Fritz Haber,
as I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler.edit: I mixed up Haber with someone else, but his research was foundational in developing many German chemical weapons, including Zyklon BEdit 2: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.
Really a fascinating bit of science history
I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler
The exact opposite is true.
I must have been remembering that his research between the World Wars lead to the development of Zyklon B muddled that up with some other chemist (maybe Otto Ambros?). I’ll see if I can find my source.
Edit: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.
Zyklon B was not developed for killing people. The most common usage was for killing lice in clothes. (To make it very clear: It was also used for killing people in Vernichtungslagern).
Zyklon B might not have been developed as a chemical weapon, but Haber was instrumental in developing and advocating for the use of chemical weapons explicitly on humans for Germany and Spain both during and after WWI (source)
I recall that one of the men ended up shooting themselves or their wives did or something along those lines. It was the one that did his best to kill as many people with chemical weapons as he could.
Name something the Germans didn’t invent.
Telephone
IN THIS HOUSE IT WAS ANTONIO MEUCCI, END OF DISCUSSION!
Okay then, glass. Invented in 9th century in Spain.
Civil engineering. And they’ve been confused at how the Italians beat them to it ever since
Tough one
Beer
Greggs sausage rolls. Or are we counting the Anglo-Saxons as ex-pats?
Humor
Inefficiency
Germans known inefficiency pretty damn well, I can tell you that much.
Noodles.
Hitler
And what about Mozart?
concentration camps
But they were the first to have a bakery attached.
Nope. The Brits did that, in South Africa, iirc.
Oh, right. Somehow I only noticed the original post.
You are supposed to mention things the Germans didn’t invent in this section.
Airplanes.
Germany actually did invent this. The brothers Wright only stuck an engine to it. The first glider that actually deserved its name was inveted by Otto Lilienthal. He died in it. Without his work, the Wright brothers would not have been able to build their plane.
Technically, the Wrights’ main contribution was the 3-axis steering mechanism, which is what made powered flight practical.
I agree. Lilienthal showed a proof of concept. The Wrights made it practical. As soon as aerodynamics was understood a bit better, there was enough lift, to move the whole elevator assembli to the back of the plane, but apart from that, the whole thing still is the most practical approach.
All inventions being based on some previous work, is it not the Wright who invented the airplane, and Lilienthal who invented the glider?
The number zero, sanitation, statistics.
Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn’t invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.
" I also like hiraeth. It’s a Welsh concept of longing for home."
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Or homesickness. Fernweh, on the other hand, only exists (somewhat) in English in idioms, afaik: itchy feet
wanderlust…damn it.
Yeah, that’s a good call!
That is not quite the same thing.
Why aren’t they called “homelust” or “wandersickness?”
The English “wanderlust” comes from the German Wanderlust more recently (1902). In German, Lust is related to the English “lust,” but it’s got less of a sensual connotation. “Homesickness” also comes from German (1798), but it was translated into English.
“Weh” means pain which is reflecting the feeling better.
It is also an older way to express a longing of the heart for something, in this case home / unknown places respectively.
Any word in Welsh is a weird way to spell a word.
TIL that’s a feeling and not just the TF2 laughing emote
Its more than a feeling.
everything that germany invented before google existed.
German ingenuity really fell off after they were done with the warmongering
V2 rockets
V1 rockets
V0 rockets
They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal
They didn’t invent East Germany.
Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.
Germany
Volkswagen, puma, Adidas, aldi, lidl…
Those are brands, not inventions. However, Otto, Benz and Diesel were all Germans, so modern cars along with both common types of ICEs were invented by Germans.
Hitler
