They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal
Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.
The rotary engine, also known as the Wankel engine
The bicycle
The car
The computer (arguably, with the Zuse Z3)Spoiler: I’m German.
Not the computer, but the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer (which would be a stage in computer hardware.)
It would be Babbage’s machine as mechanical computers precede digital ones and only if we only allow nonspecific turing complete machines.
It was the first programmable, fully automatic, digital, turing-complete computer (although they only found out the last part after Zuse died).
So I’d argue, it was the first computer in the sense we understand and use the word today.
They invented you
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.
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
Communism
Relatedly: the pension. (Before implementing the state pension, Bismarck probably saw nightmares that involved red and black banners.)
kindergarten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergarten
Kindergarten is even a German word would translate to Kinder= Kids Garten= Yard? So Kidsyard… Was funny for me as a German to learn that it actually is named Kindergarten in English…
Garten is garden, but sure, yard is fine too.
We invented the car
Socks in Sandals
Diesel engine, Mustard gas, and Synthetic fertilizer.
The no card payment sign.
Gorilla Glass (the super strong glass used in most cell phone screens) was invented by East Germany after the war, before the wall fell.
Are you thinking of Superfest? Gorilla Glass is American and seems to predate Superfest.
The Berlin Wall, putting beach towels on recliners at the crack of dawn, sauerkraut, lederhosen, frankfurters, doner kebabs, hamburgers, donuts, cheese, iron gates, macerated cherries, aardvarks, the car, the bicycle, diesel, the moon, beer, lager, tamagotchi, the letter ‘a’, the number 25, serrated saw blades, cantilever bridges, ice cream, hand lotion, galoshes, the ipod, bilateral symmetry, the dawn, goths, the parachute, that sizzling noise meat makes when you fry it, hats, gloves, left socks, altitudes over 1,773 feet, postmodernism, and geese.
The bicycle was, in its present from, was invented by a Brit.
Made my day!
Since folks have left me the easy ones, a fair number of things ending in “wurst,” like Weißwurst.
Gelbwurst!
