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.
Hitler
Poodles
Rage
Those cool windows that Americans mistake for broken. I’m American and I want those windows… also a bidet.
Just need to combine those windows with built-in bug nets and we’re solid.
I have several at home
What windows are you talking about? I tried searching for it.
Jet engines?
No I think the UK beat them by a few years but they had them in planes earlier.
Germany
Automatic Transmission
Socks in Sandals
Zyklon B, E605
hamburger
Though named after Hamburg, it was an American invention.
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.
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.
We invented the car
The car, the bicycle and Spaghetti icecream are the three most notable inventions from Mannheim Germany.
alas, the fr*nch invented the bicycle, germans merely invented the dandyhorse.
I’m from the US and never heard of spaghetti ice cream. I just googled it and it looks pretty delicious!
