Wernher von Braun developed the first rocket (V2) in Germany during World War II. The projectiles flew from Germany to England and destroyed parts of London there. He later worked for NASA and developed the Apollo rockets and thus the flight to the moon
After the first test launches he aparently reported back start and flight sucessfully but whe hit the wrong Planet(moon) Die V2 funktioniert perfekt , nur leider landete sie auf dem falschen planeten.
When i hear this name i have to think about "For All Mankind"... If you are interested in Sci-Fi Drama this series is AWESOME and Wernher von Braun is portrayed there as well.
The idea that Von Braun developed the first rocket is preposterous. The Chinese used rockets in 1232 against the Mongols. And if those don't count there's still Robert Goddard who in 1926 successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.
Wankel engine by Felix Wankel Motorcycle by Carl Benz Combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto Splitting atoms by Otto Hahn Forging in a Form. Because of this, "made in Germany" became, what it is today. High quality at a reasonable price. CRT by Ferdinand Braun. Because of this, a CRT is called Braunsche Röhre in Germany.
As a physicist I feel like I have to say, that quantum physics was also "invented" in Germany by Max Planck. Although, the danish Niels Bohr also played a huge role in its discovery. In my opinion this should really be the number one. No other part of science led to more technical advances and discoveries.
Max Planck introduced the idea, in 1905 Einstein was the first one who did not laugh at Planck and took him seriously which led to the explanation of the photoelectric effect. The big game changer was Werner Heisenberg who came up with quantum mechanics and the operator-matrix formulation of it. Schröder had to do some significant legwork in math to prove that his wave mechanics was equivalent to Heisenberg's matrix mechanics.
@@michaelgoetze2103 But we know quantum physics is not completely right, because it conflicts with other theories, especially general relativity. So if you take it as a whole, quantum physics is just a model that humans invented to describe what we observe in nature. The physics obviously wasn't invented, that's why I put it in quotation marks. However, the models we use to describe it are invented by someone.
@@ando5053 It is actually not a natural law. It is a model describing natural phenomena. Obviously you cannot invent a natural law, but you can invent a model that describes it. That's why we have multiple models of how the atom works. With each itteration it got better, but we still haven't found a model that describes everything perfectly.
A fun fact about the first computer: The term "debugging" comes from the manual removal of insects (bugs) from the computer's circuits, which were still mechanical at the time. The first computers worked with relays. Therefore, the room was always nice and warm, which attracted insects, which then got between the open switching contacts of the relays and blocked them.
The German space program is actually pretty big. The first batches of the Galileo satellites, the European GPS successor, was build in Germany. It's just that Germany does lack a spaceport near the equator. Therefore the European space programm uses the French's space port in French Guyana. Or, the American spaceports in Florida and California. It's easier to launch satellite when being near to the equator.
And there’s quite a lot of of aerospace engineering in Germany, particularly here in Bremen. The ISS’s Columbus module underwent final assembly here, plus other things like Ariane rockets, ATV etc.
With the Stuttgart 21 and Berlin airport, city tunnel Leipzig, these company support projects, the amount of lost ressources, money, such a staff of the past, with the knowledge of today would have build a successful Mars flight program in only germany. But no... Sattelites and happy companies/private owners. And a lot sattelite trash in earth orbit, thankfully to this private profit freedom.
The most important invention in the last 1000 years was done by a german. The art of printing with movable letters in 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg. It made the fast spreading of knowledge etc. possible and made Europe to the leading force in the world.
If course it was Carl Benz, not Kai Bentz. He and Gottlieb Daimler patented their cars only two days apart. Daimlers car was a fourwheeler. Benz's car was a threewheeler. Daimler lived in Stuttgart, Benz in Mannheim. When you look theese two cities, they are not far apart. Perhaps thats the matter, why they merched their factories together to Daimler-Benz. About the rocket. Why we in Germany don't have a big space program, is because you might know the headingeneer of the german rocket program. His name is / was Wernher von Braun. He and half of his staff went to the south of Germany, when the allies marched in. So they could get caught by the american troops. The other half of the staff were catched by the russians. Perhaps now it become clear, why there was the "spacerace".
We primarily don't have a space program because Germany isn't near the equator. We have basically nowhere to launch Rockets from. Nowhere in Europe really has. That's why the European Space Agency launch their rockets in French Guiana
Fritz Haber's invention to synthesize ammonia which lead to mass production of fertilizer and explosives should have made it into top 10. Carl Linde's refridgeration , too.
Yeah, Haber's invention, along with Bosch's industrialisation of it are the reason we are even able to sustain our large populations. And to think I never knew about them before Sabaton...
Not to forget Haber as a jew himself, invented chlorine gas for ww1 and later for pest prevention at the time, Zyklon B the odorless variant of Zyklon A, which was used to kill millions of people during the holocaust
Regarding rocketry: 1) Germany is, together with France, the most involved country in the European Space Agency (ESA), whose launch site is in French Guiana in South America. 2) A big reason why the German space program didn't "take off" is bc the US and the Soviets poached the talent. If you know the name Werner von Braun, who was key in founding in NASA and was recruited as part of Operation Paperclip. The Soviets had a similar program, Operation Osoaviakhim.
As a german programmer I have to add a bit to Konrad Zuse. Like you said computers are quite complex and you can not really call out a single person for the invention. The whole idea of a computer is much older and Charles Babbage is usually credited for being the father of the computer in general. Likewise the first (famous) programmer Ada Lovelace is considered the mother of computing. She was programming just a hypothetical computer. So she was developing algorithms which could solve problems on a machine that was at that time just an idea. This is really amazing. The programming language ADA is actually named after her. When it comes to milestones, different people set up different criteria. So the first working programmable computer was build by Zuse, but it was an electro-mechanical computer as it used relais for the logic switches. Since relais have a relatively large delay due to their mechanical properties, the speed was quite slow. The Z3 ran at 5Hz. That's why some don't count the Z2 / Z3 as the first digital computers because they were not fully electronic. With the invention of vacuum tubes, the ENIAC became the first fully electronic programmable computer. In between the Z3 and the ENIAC there also was the "Colossus" which was the electro-mechanical "machine" capable of breaking the enigma code. Not really a fully programmable computer since it was build for a specific purpose, but it already had a lot of flexibility and given the importance it's worth mentioning :) In the end most inventions don't really go back to a single person. They may have had the final pieces required or the necessary tools to implement it, but like most inventions they are based on the knowledge of everything that came before them. So germans like to brag about Zuse while americans usually brag about ENIAC and the brits brag about Babbage and the Colossus. I'm german but Zuse's invention isn't related to me in any way just like what happened at WW2 isn't related to me either. We should be happy for Zuse for his success and we should learn from past to not repeat it. Just write your own history and leave a mark :)
That is some nonsense. The Zuse is universally recognized as the first fully flegded computer. It doesn't matter that it was electromechanical and not electronic. Zuse was already thinking about using tubes instead of relays. However, The Z3 ticks off all the relevant boxes such as von Neumann architecture, Turing completeness, first higher programming language (Plankalkül). It is only the typical sour losers (US, UK, Russia) who claim they have done it, when they haven't. The US even used Zuse's patents without paying him license fees and without giving him any credit.
There are countless german inventions, which are used on a daily base worldwide. We can make a list here :) I start with 10: - Toothpaste - Dynamo - bicycle - motorbike - periodic system - X-Ray - Chip card - prosthetic legs - the jeans - record player (Schallplattenspieler)
Everyone repeats the same facts and this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless German inventions, not only unsinkable lifeboats and other technological wonders, but also such basic items commonly used all over the world as matches or toilet paper. Other countries also made absolutely groundbreaking discoveries, not only America or Great Britain.
Anybody with a basic understanding of mathematics, sciences and engineering quickly discovers that Germans and German-speaking people invented more than 80% of all modern things which enable today's living standard and quality of life. Those inventions include grand discoveries and inventions like the computer, the television, radar, general relativitiy, the laser, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, etc. but also quality of life items for our daily existence such as the horizontal washing machine, the refridgerator, the coffee filter, tooth paste, MP3 and so on. It is the arrogance and the fake news reality of Great Britain, of America and of Russia to think they were the big inventors. Americans did not even invent many of their iconic brands like Levi's or Boeing. Those companies were founded by German immigrants. 1933, just before the Nazis came to power, Germany had more Nobel prizes than the next 4 countries added together.
Gutenberg did NOT invent book printing He invented printing with movable Letters which sped up printing a lot. But people printed 700 years before his time in china
Correct, he basically invented the letter set itself (made from Tin for easy recycle, because they often printed small pictures as well) wich was basically useless in china because a set with Kanji would have been a warehouse full of stamps Later, clever printers casted often used words or phrases together to save time.
Not only in China, in Europe, too. Older printing presses essentially used handcarved negatives of whole individual pages. But mass printing really only picked up after Gutenberg's invention, because it made printing not only faster, but much much cheaper, because you could reuse the individual letters and if one letter gets damaged, you could just replace that one instead of replacing the printing block for the whole page.
Wanted to say the same. Another factor that is often overlooked when it comes to the production of books is paper production and book binding. Otherwise you have just a few pretty pages.
@@kaltaron1284 Books and book binding is older than paper. Even with paper being cheaper than pergament, pergament was still in use long after Gutenberg, befor it became a luxury item
At least Electric Cars were invented in the early 1900s or end of 1800s. It just so happened that the oil industry was really good at selling their product and making claims that combustion is better than electric. Oil was money as it is today, so electric cars were soon out of business. If they had made those better who knows what standards modern electric vehicles could have.
@@4Astaroth it was true that at the time electric cars couldn't keep up in power and range. Charging was also a problem back in the day. It still was a major mistake to completely forget about electric cars for like 90 years.
@rubenfriedetzky1010 as it is quite often, this is a "what was first, hen or egg" problem: didn't they put effort in better batteries because there were not many such cars, or did they not build lots of those cars because there were no useful batteries. that's also what i give tesla credit for, less for the car, but offering the combination of both the car and the loading infrastructure. and the same for the CD too, where nobody wanted to make them without cheap players, and nobody could make few cheap players when there was no media for them. only when players/recorders got massproduced for computer storage, did they really become popular.
@@4Astaroth At the time that petrol engined cars superseded electric cars, oil-baesd fuel was not firmly established yet. Electric cars got a bad reputation when an electric racecar - La Jamais Contente, back then the world's fastest car at a whopping 100 km/h - was disqualified after finishing a race as the frontrunner due to a jump start. When the driver Camille Jenatzky was offered to repeat the race, his batteries were empty whereas the petrol-engined cars were quickly fueled up and ready to start again. This convinced people that fuel-operated cars were more functional for everyday use than electric cars.
@@gregorygant4242 bro, the process to produce ammonia enables our world to sustain more than ~500 million people semi permanently to this day. Its literally top 10 most important inventions of all time, amongst wich are the domestication of Fire, invention of gunpowder (wich he also revolutionized), Steam/Combustion/Electric engines, and some more. The printing press was important, but definitely not the most important one, the Programmable Computer is more important to our world.
The story behind the Aggregat 4 (A4), her development, her first space flight and what happend to all the scientist working on her at the end / after WWII (e.g. Operation Paperclip) is a huuuuge and intersting rabbit hole. And, because sometimes it is kind of misleading, Wernher von Braun was not the inventor of the A4/V2. He was the technical director. Her development was a huge team effort. His job was to coordinate the reserach and development. Last but not least: A4 -> more of a "scientific" prototype rocket, V2 -> an optimised, simplified military rocket for mass production. They are not the same.
Ohropax (Literally "ear peace"; "Ohr" = German for ear, "pax" = Latin for peace) was a waxy substance that could be pressed into your outer ear canal and would dampen sound. As the material was somewhat malleable, especially once it adjusted to body temperature, it would fit each person perfectly and could be worn all night, or through working hours, with minimal (if any) discomfort -- and had the added advantage that it was very unobtrusive. It was also yet another case where a brand name eventually became generic.
Born as Karl with a K and never officially changed it to Carl with a C so for me it's Karl Benz ;-) At least we agree on Benz and don't call him Karl Vaillant - that would confuse many Germans with their heating system ;-)
"Who invented the computer" is a really difficult question. There are multiple aspects that a modern computer has which were not brought together into a single machine for a long while. Many early computers missed some of these aspects. Which of these is now the first "computer"? Difficult to define. Zuse's Computers were the first with some aspects, while other people's computers were first with other aspects.
Thats right. But i think the fact, that this computer was the first programmable fully automatic one, is enough to consider Zuse as the inventor of the thing as we know it today.
@@audi_gaining9725 yes, the "some aspects" of Zuses Computer are actually the essential "programming" part. Programming is clearly not just "some aspect" but probably the most important thing in the whole media world and not only that, also the Industry and in Business in general.
the device itself was zuse. a computer as an electric tool of assistance. its just not as easy to work with it in its pure form - u need to communicate with the electricity to get transistors to do what u want them to. and the operating system (that thing that provides a port for easier handling) has different inventors but the most common nowadays for home used personal computers would be windows which wasnt invented in germany tho. rank 2 linux 3 mac all not german but the computer itself yes
@@TheBlackfall234 There were programmable calculators before, but Zuse's computer was the first Turing-complete device (albeit with some nasty trickery discovered half a century after the device was built).
i would say the (Rudolf) Diesel engine (used in almost all ships and big Trucks around the world) , the electron microscope, the 35mm film format and the SLR camera are more important than teabags.
i think they wanted to show the breadth of inventions. every day mondane items like tea bags, to cars, jets, computers and security enhancements like chip cards. I remember the disposable "chip phone cards" in germany (you know when there were phone booths) in the 90s. always blew my mind that in spite of the huge acceptance of credit cards and debit cards, chips on card were not a thing until after 2015 here in the US.
4:24 There were also things like: The gas stove was invented in the 1820s and only came into normal households well over 100 years later! My grandma, for example, still cooked with a coal oven until the 1980s!
The A4 rocket was a ballistic missile with a range of about 300-330km. It is also known as V2 and used by the Germans in WWII. It would go to space but only for a short while. It wouldn't go to orbit. It was developed by Wernher von Braun who was brought to the US after the war through secret operations called Operation Overcast and Operation Paperclip. He was with NASA from day 1 and helped develop the family of Saturn rockets. The most famous is of course the Saturn V used in the Apollo program.
Didn't you react to the Wuppertal Flying Train video from 1902? Aspirin was invented only five years prior to that video right next to that train track (on the right side) in a laboratory inside the Bayer factory in Wuppertal. The factory is right next to Varresbecker Str. station, which the train passes in the video.
I would have expected the lightbulb, Hamburgers, bacteriology, the telephone. Perhaps even the stuff Zeiss does in medicine/battery tech. And they feature ... tea bags.
Several inventors played a part in the creation of the light bulb. In fact, scientists including Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy, James Bowman Lindsay, Warren de la Rue, William Staite, and Joseph Swan all played their part in its eventual creation. And then of course the official one, Thomas Edison - none of them are German AFAIK.
Germans prefer to use cash, because you actually can physically see how much money you spend and how much you still have left. It gives you a better feeling for your money and you can easily learn how to handle it 🙃
That's one good reason to use cash. You simply can't spend money you don't have and you always know how much you have left. It also makes you more aware that you are spending money because every time you actually have to give away something "physical" (even if it's only banknotes and coins). That more likely makes you "feel the consequences" right away (and you might rethink if it's really worth it, whatever you're purchasing) while using a credit card (or any "get it now, pay later" offer) might emphasize the "reward" you can get *now* and neglect thoughts about later. Another reason for using cash can be privacy concerns. Maybe, you don't want your bank to know exactly what you're spending your money for or to make it too easy to create a "customer profile" by being able to link all the purchases you make to your credit card or bank account. (What if the data gets stolen or is shared with other companies?) Cash is more difficult to track and there's usually no exchange of personal information (or any sort of "common" ID that could be used to link multiple purchases) involved in a cash transaction.
I used to say that too. But I have not used physical money for a decade now and I am still not broke. When you do your financial bookkeeping right (at least once a month) you will eventually get a feeling for what you can afford and what not.
Interesting that you find it strange that we still often pay with cash, but workers in the USA still get their money by Paycheck instead of by bank transfer.
The Americans and those in many Anglo-Saxon countries think that they are advanced because they have a cashless , digital payement system . New flash , that's bad ,very very bad ! Having a cashless digital system and not accepting cash is bad because then you are under the full control of the ruling elites , they can do what they want with your money, freeze it, turn it off , you're f!cked ! Japan , Germany still keep cash around, less control by the ruling elites of their citizens , THAT'S SMART !
6:02 With the space programme. It depends on how you look at it. Although the German Aerospace Centre does not operate a comparable spaceport for large rockets within Germany such as Cape Canaveral or similar, which is also difficult as Germany is heavily populated, Germany is an integral part of the European Space Agency. And the ESA operates a spaceport for large rockets in French Guiana (part of the EU) in South America in Kourou. And Germany makes important contributions to ESA and also co-operates with NASA. There are important space sectors in Germany. For example, astronauts are being trained and research is being conducted into agriculture in space. Parts of the Orion lunar spaceship of the NASA Artemis mission are also built in Germany. There are also companies that operate in a similar way to SpaceX, albeit on a much smaller scale. Small satellites and rockets that will take them into orbit are being developed in Germany. There will also soon be a floating spaceport (German-Offshore Spaceport Alliance) in the North Sea for smaller rockets.
I had to look that up, and you are right: French Guiana is part of the EU - which isn't always the case for Extra-European overseas territories, especially if devolved to some degree, for example, Greenland, that is neither part of the EU nor the EEC, but its citizen can apply for EU citizenship if they wanted to as a simple formality.
@@Thoringer Now that you mention Greenland and its current status. Thanks for the interesting points! Greenland is an interesting case study. Greenland was once part of the EC (European Community, the EC is the predecessor of the EU), but left the Community. That means before the "Brexit" there was a "Greexit". The reason for leaving was because they felt disadvantaged by new fishing laws and wanted more autonomy from Denmark and stronger ties with the USA. Today, however, there are special agreements with the EU that guarantee Greenland advantages. Such as access to the internal market and financial support, or the advantages you mentioned.
(Edit: MOVEABLE) Printing press was invented in China by Bi Sheng (990-1051) at least 200 years before Gutenberg. And he didn't mention some of the most important inventions at all. Bicycle - Karl von Drais 1817 Light bulb - Heinrich Göbel - 1854 (not patented, 25 years before Edison) Telephone - Philipp Reis 1859 (not patented) Periodic table - Lothar Meyer 1864 Dynamo/tram - Werner von Siemens 1866 Bacteriology - Robert Koch 1870 (Jeans - Lewis Strauss 1873) Refrigerator - Carl von Linde 1876 X-rays - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 1885 Record player - Emil Berliner 1887 Diesel engine - Rudolf Diesel 1896 Radar - Christian Hülsmeyer 1904 Ammonium synthesis - Fritz Haber 1908 (½ of world population live because of this invention!) Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein 1915 pocket camera - Oskar Barnack (Leica-Leitz Camera) 1925 TV - Manfred von Ardenne 1930 Electron microscope - Ernst Ruska 1931 Helicopter - Heinrich Fokker 1932 Nuclear fission - Otto Hahn 1938
It meant the MOVEABLE printing press , printing presses that were NOT moveable had already been around for many years , listen carefully people before posting dumb comments !
@@gregorygant4242 Movable type was first created by Bi Sheng (990-1051), who used baked clay, which was very fragile. The Yuan-dynasty official Wang Zhen is credited with the introduction of wooden movable type, a more durable option, around 1297. 🥱😘🤌🏼💩 Edit: 20-30 sec of research is obviously too much work for some (really dumb) people...
@@DieGurke_ The fuck do you want? The He 178 was a Jet aircraft that flew before the Me 262 you don't make any sense whatsofucking ever with your comments.
Yeah, an with the Horten H2, even the first version of a stealth jet with a delta wing, from which the legendary Northrop B2 got it’s inspiration, after WW2 was over. 🙂
there are so many more german inventions…Bicycle, motorbike, dolls, TV, remote control, nuclear fission, pocket camera, electric bulp (edison just got the first patent in it but did not invent it), Telephone, the count down (3, 2, 1…), microscope, x-rays, and many more
I read that the Germans were about 60 years ahead of other countries in technological development. All knowledge and patents were "exported" to the USA after the Second World War. This also included the developers of rockets who then joined NASA.
Fun fact: German patents are regularly violated by other countries, especially the US. The last major incident was the Anthrax incidents. It has been a while but when those terrorist activities were going on, the only available antidote for Anthrax was patented and made by a German company (BAYER). They were ready to sell to the US government in accordance with typical US pharma lobby free market rules...which meant: deal of a lifetime. Only one source for supply, and huge demand. This should mean: astronomical pricing, and the Muricans would have to pay it, just the same way US pharmaceutical companies charge the shit out of their products whenever they are the only supplier. Well, well, the US government did not like the German free market approach of supply and demand and threatened the German company to declare their product policy a threat to national security. They threatened BAYER by saying they would simply confiscate the patent and give it to a competitor of BAYER so that the competitor would be able to make the Anthrax antidote for a very low price. "We will find ways" was stated to the press when BAYER insisted on their pricing of 1,83 Dollar per pill and a minimum order of ten million pills. BAYER had to accept the blackmail and they had to sell them the antidote for a rididculously low price. BAYER barely made any profit despite the R&D costs and the expenses for qualifying the antidote under the much stricter pharma rules of the European Union. This is how the US treats the intellectual and industrial properties of other nations.
The first spaceport stationed at sea is soon to be built here. From which rockets are launched, from the sea. 7:39 that is not Kai Bentz. He said: "Karl Benz". That is the right name of the inventor of the Car Brand Mercedes Benz. His wife Bertha was the first woman to drive 110 kilometres by car to visit her parents. There is a historical short film from Mercedes that shows this.
Honestly there is no definite answer on who developed the first computer. I am a CS student and took a seminar about the history of computing technology where we did a lot of research about the first computers. There were multiple computing machines developed at the same time and depending on what definition you use the devloper of the first computer could be either Babbage, von Neumann, Turing, Zuse or Eckert and Maulchy (there are a few more possibilities actually). But germans like to calim it was Zuse, because he was german...
in regards to the space program. Afer Nazi Germany lost WWII all Space/Rocket Engineers were either "trasferred" to the US (just google Werner von Braun) or Russia to continue the space race. In Germany we had to bulid up the country first and then joint ESA the European Space Aency later on.
There's a phrase about the printing press that I heard a while ago which describes pretty well why Gutenberg's printing press is considered the "first one", even though printing was a thing in China way earlier: "If Karl Benz had invented the car the way Gutenberg invented the printing press, he would've built a complete Porsche 911 as a first draft" Gutenberg's printing press didn't just print onto paper. You can make something like that with half a potato. Gutenberg's printing press featured movable type, which allowed a high degree of flexibility and reusability. It was built highly durable and very user friendly. He also developed a lot of the specialized tools necessary to build the press itself as well as for making the letters. It was such a complete product that it took nearly 300 years, until 1796, for the next iteration of printing, that being lithography. Which in itself didn't replace Gutenberg's printing concept either, but was just the first flat printing method. It took until 1912 for the first web offset printing machine to be built, about 400 years after Gutenberg built his printing press, which is still generally the printing concept used today. In my opinion, you're entirely correct in comparing the printing press to the internet. Language made information shareable. Writing made shared information persistent. The printing press made written information infinitely reproducible. The internet made reproduced information infinitely shareable. All of them were monumental achievements in information technology. I also agree on your hesitance regarding the computer. While the printing press can still be attributed to one man, computers are so immensely complex that attributing them to one person is impossible. Ada Lovelace, for example, is considered one of the first computer programmers before computers were a thing, because she laid a lot of the theoretical ground work for them. But Zuse did build the first programmable computer. What's even more impressive, though, is that after it and all technical documentation were destroyed in the war, he rebuilt the entire thing from memory in the 60s just so it could be displayed in a museum. The 60s were 20 years after the war. I work in IT and every time I come back from even just the weekend, I remember exactly nothing of the code I wrote on Friday. Complete madlad.
The rocket in the video was unmanned, Germany had a ballistic missile program in WWII that required rocket-technology. However, after the war, Germany didn't have any significant ways to make a space program work, as Germany had to invest its resources into rebuilding the country and economy, as well as the fact that both the Soviets and the Americans poached the German scientists responsible for the previous innovations in rocket-technology. Wernher von Braun, originally a scientist for the 3rd Reich was one of the heads behind the Apollo program that got the Americans to the moon.
As I was born in Haarlem (Netherlands) it is my civic duty to deny history and say that Laurens Janszoon Coster invented printing. Yes it is true that the Germans beat us with the first printed publication by two weeks, but who can tell who was the first with the idea? It is funny to see that the invention of the printing press was done independently at two places simultaneously. I will now be serious: Congrats Germany, you beat us by two weeks.... (crying noises).
In 1440 there was no such thing like a common "deutsche" or "Nederlandse" identity so it`s a bit silly to claim it to be a "german invention" back in the day it probably would be more difficult and strange for me beeing from northwestern Germany to talk to a person from Mainz than to a person from Haarlem. dus maak je er geen zorgen over mijn vriend!
Btw. The reason why germans love cash is... ok, there are 2 reasons: first the love traditions and money was there long before the credit-/ debitcard was. it's the reason most german prefer money. but there is a second reason. for some people it is the security of private data. if you pay with a card the bank or the shops may give your personal data incl. what you buyed to some marketing freaks. they will send you lots of advertising base on what you bought.
A german (Fritz Haber) developed a method for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, which could be used to manufacture artificial fertilizer. He initially did this for military purposes, but ended up saving the lives of millions/billions by solving hunger on a global scale through mass-manufactuable fertilizer allowing agriculture on far grander scales than priviously possible.
The Haber-Bosch process is missing. It should be in the top 3, if not first. It made it possible to mass produce ammonia, which is used for fertilizer. It is the reason the earth can feed such a large population.
11:20: To pronounce the name "Zuse" correctly you can write the name in phonetic English "Tsoo-Ze". The "e" is pronounced like the short "e" in the word "let". Kind regards from Braunschweig ("Brown-Shvike"), Germany ("Doytsh-Lunt").😊
The reasons Germany doesn't have a bigger space program are mainly that it's part of the ESA (European space agency) so it doesn't really need a separate program and also the fuel required to get a rocket to space increases exponentially the further you are from the equator (because the rotational speed is slower, the rocket isn't "flung out" as much and this needs more fuel). That's also why almost all space launch sites are either on or near the equator
Wir können sehr stolz darauf sein, was wir alles in unserer Kultur erfunden und geschafft haben! Und nicht zu vergessen, dass wir auch in der klassichen Musik ganz vorne dabei sind :)
My first MP3 player had like 128mb for 199euros or something like that, but dude it had a display with blue lighting an in ear headphones in the box. I felt like a cyborg with that thing.
Fridge, respectively the refrigeration plant. Invented by Carl von Linde. Haber-Bosch-process. Used to convert nitrogen out of the ambient air into ammonia. Hugely important for fertilizer production!
I miss in this list some important inventions that changed the world. The Diesel engine. The X-rays. The lightbulb (yes, the patent got Eddison but invented it was by Heinrich Göbel). The telephone (Johann Philipp Reis). The first flying device (Otto Lilienthal). The theory of relativity. And pleas also don't forget the Gummibär. 😁
We built quite a few things at the end of the war. Some people couldn’t just lose… no for real some Programs during that time were sabotaged by their own ingeneers. It is believed that the two scientists who worked on a German Atombomb (which hated each other) sabotaged their own work. But the best sabotaging was carried out by Norwegians who sunk a German ship which had heavy Water for a Atombomb on board.
The thing is though that the German nuclear program (which was long said to be a myth but did exist) wasn't quite what the Americans and later Soviets did. German nukes would have been closer to what we call a "dirty nuke", i.e. it's more like a lot of explosives meant to scatter nuclear material in a large area to irradiate it whereas a proper nuclear weapon actually fissions the atoms (their cores, specifically) to create smaller cores which is what also unleashes all the energy in the form of shock and heat. Radiation is more of a by-product here rather than the main purpose, though of course it's still plenty strong.
I'm missing Johann Philipp Reis, he did the first phone call in 1861. First transferred sentence, "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat." (The horse does not eat cucumber salad.)
The first successful glider flight was completed by the German Otto Lilienthal. On the basis of its wing design, the Büder Writh were able to perform their first powered flight
Some more: Electric motor (Moritz Herman Jacobi) Dynamo (Werner von Siemens) Telephone (Johann Philipp Reis) Combustion motor (Nicolaus Otto) Diesel motor (Rudolf Diesel) Car (Carl Benz) Motorbike (Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz) Lightbulb (Heinrich Göbel) Telefon (Johann Philipp Reis) X-Ray (Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen) Radar (Christian Hülsmeyer) Rotation printing for Newspapers - Heidelberg company Scanner (Rudolf Hell / Linotype-Hell company) Mikroscope (Hans Janssen) TV (Manfred von Ardenne) The 1936 Berlin Olympics have been still broadcasted live on TV in Germany. The TV devices have been extremely expensive and ordinary people could not afford one. So the sportsbar was also invented as bars and cafes bought a TV set and offered their customer to see the Olympics live on TV. The TV coverage was not nationwide, there was only TV in larger cities.
The thing with inventions is, often for an idea the time just has come. The jet engine for example was developed simultaneously by a German and English mechanic without knowing each other. So the idea that a single person is "the" inventor is a little old. Also for stuff like the automobile there are a lot of ideas from different minds from different countries playing together. So defining the one person who is "the" inventor is difficult.
Chip card vs. cash: If you pay cashless, your payment can be tracked back to you, no matter what you bought and where. Also, the companies will be able to send you more advertisements based on your purchases. There's more to this, like surveillance and all. Paying with cash will prevent all of this. Cash is a means of privacy. I myself prefer cash, too. I only pay cashless when I have to.
You are wrong that Germany does not have a space program . Have you ever heard of an organization within the EU called the European Space Agency? It is an intergovernmental organization established to implement a common European program for the exploration and use of space. Its tasks also include supporting the development of modern and competitive industry in the Member States. ESA consists of 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Poland (since November 2012), Portugal, Romania, Switzerland , Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Hungary. Canada participates in the work of ESA under a separate agreement.
about 1b - Invention of modern computers by Konrad Zuse (spelled: Suse): As a tribute to his invention one of the most popular linux systems is called 'SuSe linux'.
6:29 the time where space programs became big, germany was rebuilding from war and had to pay massive amounts of reparations, while being sliced into 2/3 and 1/3
It was about video formats: MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG3... every video also needs audio. This is how the audio formats MP1, MP2 and MP3 were developed. MP3 stands for motion picture 3rd generation, but this is about audio.
As a German i have to say: 1.) The Jet- Engine was a invenrion by a extrem young English boy, he understud that a Jet-Motor is imaginabel. All experts refuse. As he prove that its work Royl Airforce stop it and gave the patents open for germany, and they bring the Jet-Engine togather with a plane. It looks like, they want to gave Hitler a chance in the beginning to heat up the Shitt... the rest iis c-theorie. 2.) World population is not abel with out Stickstoff, the chemical produktion helps the Farmers extrem and stopped Hunger in many regiones. 3) We inventet the first Flyers with man on it. We test them, for many years. So the first pilotes qas german ones. But if that was done in the US some one hat the grest idear to propel it and make it useabel. The same with the computer, or atomic bombs. The idear comes from germany. Or SolarcellProduction: German make it china use it as massproduktion and was very thankful. So basicaly we want to brings thinks to life and chare it for use. But the US and GB culture try to focus us to make Money by invention since that we reduce our thinking and did not make big inventions for the world. Never the less, the first Multicopter, that transport a human was near Karlsruhe, Germany. And the best Droneconcept for humans was invented in München, Germany. But i am sure, i mist the most importabd thinks: ● free thinking ● the unknowen struktue of modern societys ● Voting by individuel resistend chart, to find the best ways to alocation
Haha it's always funny how Americans do not know that it was the Germans who brought NASA to the moon. And yes, Germany has a space program called ESA (European Space Agency) in Partnership with other European contries. They also work together with NASA, SpaceX and Roskosmos (the Russian Space Adency). You had the Apollo rocket and the Space Shuttle, we have our powerfull Ariane rockets which starts from French Guiana in South America mostly for cargo missions.
Die V-2 erreichte als erste von Menschen gebaute Maschine den Weltraum, der nach einer willkürlichen und durchaus umstrittenen Definition achtzig Kilometer über der Erde beginnt. That was my point. @@wolf310ii
Mp3: it's not only the invention of the mp3 format, but the complete knowledge of how to compress audio data without noticeable loss in quality. They did extensive theoretical and practical studies over many years which then resulted in the creation of the mp3 format. But basically all modern audio codecs are still heavily depending on the results of the fundamental study. So instead of "just" inventing mp3 it would be more correct to say inventing loss-less audio codecs. Rocket engine: Germans were the first to put a unmanned objects into space and had actively used the rockets in WW2 (though it was too late to make a difference). After the war russia and the US took the technology from germany and fought over who could recruit most of the german rocket scientiests. They then used that technology and the scientiest to found their own space programs. Later russia was the first to sent a manned object to space (first a dog, later a human) and the US famously used the technology for the first flight to the moon. The reason Germany does not have a bigger space programm today has two parts. It was forbidden to do any study on it by the allies for several decades and the geographical location of germany does not make it a goid choice for launching something into space. Only near the equator it's the most cheap to launch. Computer: zuse might have been the first with his Computer, but due to Ww2 no one in the West knew about his invention and until the war had ended some other people had already invented it as well, and due the effects of the war his newest computer model wasn't even the most advanced anymore. So though he was the first to invent it, his invention did not shape the further development. (He was one of the big losers of this war)
MP3 is a lot more important then "for new form-factor devices", because it paved the way to high quality communication, streaming, movies on discs and the development of new compression algorithm with calculated data loss in general. Germans use cash because of both trust and the fact that using credit cards is very expensive for the vendor. The more important part about developing an electrical motor is having indirectly essentially developed a power generator, that can turn movement into electricity. The important part about the printing press was making knowledge publicly available, spreading knowledge throughout society and building the cornerstone of advancing it. The problem with deciding on who build the first computer, is that neither standard nor the threshold of "what is a computer" is precisely defined. - There is, for instance, the "Antikythera mechanism" mechanism, which is considered an analog computer developed by the Ancient Greeks from about 60 BC. - The first known analog computer after that was created by Vannevar Bush in 1927, called the "Differential Analyzer". - The first mechanical computer was developed by Charles Babbage in the 1830s called the "Analytical Engine". - The first relay computer was the Zuse Z2/Z3, developed in 1938 and demonstrated in 1941 ( the Z1 was a mechanical computer from 1937 ). - The first electrical computer was invented in 1937 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry using vacuum-tubes, though the first functional such machine was created by J. Presper Eckerl and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945. - The first computer using transistor technology was proven functional in 1953, and was developed by the University of Manchester. - The first ternary computer was developed by the Russian "Nikolai Brusentsov" and "Sergei Sobolev" at the Moscow State University in 1958: The Setun. It used ferrite diode matrices and magnet core memory, which together with it's base principle made it a lot cheaper while equally performant than binary systems based on transistor technology. - The first microchip computer was the IBM System/360, announced in 1964, based on the work of Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments and Roberty Noyce from Fairchild Semiconductors, who invented the microchip in 1958-1959. ... as you can see, there are a lot of "firsts" in this list, and depending on whom you ask, the answer varies accordingly. I, for one, am undecided as to what to call the first computer, mostly because I have trouble calling a room sized device qualifying in both heat and sound as an overcrowded smithy, a computer.
Regarding the Agregat 4 (V2) rocket: Yes, it flew into space technically, reaching more than 100 km, but it wasn't an orbital flight and of course it wasn't manned. Russia actually was pretty advanced in rocket technology in early 20th century as well, but during the 30s, they didn't manage to scale their rocket motors up. After the war, they were the firsts who built an orbiting satelite and then sent the first person to space. Considering the costs of a space program, Germany today cooperates with other European countries in the esa and often with NASA, the japanese and other space organisations.
Earplugs are in the list but not the "dübel"? Wtf....it make mounting something so much easier... You dont need to grab a hammer,poke a hole in the wall, mix concrete,grab a peiece of wood and glue it with the concrete or cement in that hole, wait till its dry to screw a screw in it....change a 24 hour procedure to a 2minute "hold my beer" situation... As a craftsman i am very thankfull to mr. Fischer!!!
5:54 "ohropax" was made original of wax and cotton wool. if you hold it in your hand for a while or start rolling it between some fingers, the wax warmed up and you can put it in your ear and it would fit perfectly, after usage, you could simply remove it, cause of the cotton wool and re-use it if neccessary.
The subtitles are generated by automatic speech recognition and are therefore not always correct. For example, as you said, his name is Karl and not Kai Benz.
I expected to see Fritz Haber somewhere on the top. Most people will know him as the chap who invented poison gas as a weapon, which is by no means a great invention (albeit historically important). But he also invented the Haber-Bosch process for synthesising Ammonia, which could be used as a fertiliser and was one of the crucial factors in feeding the world population (another one was invented by Norman Borlaug, look him up). Fritz Haber is a very interesting personality - he helped kill millions of people, but he also helped keeping millions from starving. He was a militant German nationalist, but also a Jew, so while he was one of the greatest contributors to the German war effort in World War One, he was also persecuted as a Jew because according to the Nazis the Jews were responsible for losing the first world war.
Gonna mention Jusust von Liebig here. He basically was a mastermind as he established (not invented) modern chemistry as a field. his most important invention is artificial fertilizer. without this, the worlds population would not be higher than a few hundred million poeple. he basically intented the way to feed us all
In more recent years (1995) Germans invented the LSTM - according to Bill Gates a "huge milestone in advancing artificial intelligence". it was the first time, that neural networks had memory. Today LSTMs are not that much in use anymore, as transformer architectures are more efficient. But the LSTM paved the way for generative AI.
Hey, greetings and thank you for making a video out of my suggestion so quickly! It's kind of crazy when you think about it and somehow don't even know what's all being invented in the world right now, you don't really get it. Raphael
Wernher von Braun developed the first rocket (V2) in Germany during World War II. The projectiles flew from Germany to England and destroyed parts of London there. He later worked for NASA and developed the Apollo rockets and thus the flight to the moon
Among many other german scientists and engineers that moved to the US during the rise of the Third Reich and after the fall.
After the first test launches he aparently reported back start and flight sucessfully but whe hit the wrong Planet(moon) Die V2 funktioniert perfekt , nur leider landete sie auf dem falschen planeten.
When i hear this name i have to think about "For All Mankind"... If you are interested in Sci-Fi Drama this series is AWESOME and Wernher von Braun is portrayed there as well.
The idea that Von Braun developed the first rocket is preposterous. The Chinese used rockets in 1232 against the Mongols. And if those don't count there's still Robert Goddard who in 1926 successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.
The V1 was the First one . And the V2 was the First one who flew high enough to leave the Atmosphäre
Honorable mentions:
- cathode ray tube (for TV etc.) (Ferdinand Braun)
- X-rays (Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen)
- Diesel engine (Rudolf Diesel)
- coffee filter (Melitta Bentz)
Fanta (yes, it was invented in germany) 😉
Oh, I never realized that Melitta was around THIS long.
I just thought of them as another random coffee filter brand.
Telephone (Philipp Reis)
Wankel engine by Felix Wankel
Motorcycle by Carl Benz
Combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto
Splitting atoms by Otto Hahn
Forging in a Form. Because of this, "made in Germany" became, what it is today. High quality at a reasonable price.
CRT by Ferdinand Braun. Because of this, a CRT is called Braunsche Röhre in Germany.
Bicycle
As a physicist I feel like I have to say, that quantum physics was also "invented" in Germany by Max Planck. Although, the danish Niels Bohr also played a huge role in its discovery. In my opinion this should really be the number one. No other part of science led to more technical advances and discoveries.
Max Planck introduced the idea, in 1905 Einstein was the first one who did not laugh at Planck and took him seriously which led to the explanation of the photoelectric effect. The big game changer was Werner Heisenberg who came up with quantum mechanics and the operator-matrix formulation of it. Schröder had to do some significant legwork in math to prove that his wave mechanics was equivalent to Heisenberg's matrix mechanics.
There is a distinction between discovering a natural phenomena and an invention. Newton described gravity - he did not invent it.
but quantum physics is no real invention, as it is a basic natural law
@@michaelgoetze2103 But we know quantum physics is not completely right, because it conflicts with other theories, especially general relativity. So if you take it as a whole, quantum physics is just a model that humans invented to describe what we observe in nature. The physics obviously wasn't invented, that's why I put it in quotation marks. However, the models we use to describe it are invented by someone.
@@ando5053 It is actually not a natural law. It is a model describing natural phenomena. Obviously you cannot invent a natural law, but you can invent a model that describes it. That's why we have multiple models of how the atom works. With each itteration it got better, but we still haven't found a model that describes everything perfectly.
A fun fact about the first computer:
The term "debugging" comes from the manual removal of insects (bugs) from the computer's circuits, which were still mechanical at the time.
The first computers worked with relays. Therefore, the room was always nice and warm, which attracted insects, which then got between the open switching contacts of the relays and blocked them.
AFAIK that's wrong. It was an engineering term. The first real (dead) bug was found later but I'd have to look up the details.
Wikepedia about bug: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
@@richardseverijns9904 i mean wiki is not a good source honestly :D
The German space program is actually pretty big. The first batches of the Galileo satellites, the European GPS successor, was build in Germany.
It's just that Germany does lack a spaceport near the equator. Therefore the European space programm uses the French's space port in French Guyana. Or, the American spaceports in Florida and California. It's easier to launch satellite when being near to the equator.
I mean ESA is a joined program for a reason.
And there’s quite a lot of of aerospace engineering in Germany, particularly here in Bremen. The ISS’s Columbus module underwent final assembly here, plus other things like Ariane rockets, ATV etc.
With the Stuttgart 21 and Berlin airport, city tunnel Leipzig, these company support projects, the amount of lost ressources, money, such a staff of the past, with the knowledge of today would have build a successful Mars flight program in only germany.
But no... Sattelites and happy companies/private owners.
And a lot sattelite trash in earth orbit, thankfully to this private profit freedom.
there are plans for a spaceport in the area of Cuxhaven but I don't know how likely it is to actually happen
Before this shit war we also frequently used the russian one.
The most important invention in the last 1000 years was done by a german. The art of printing with movable letters in 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg. It made the fast spreading of knowledge etc. possible and made Europe to the leading force in the world.
It was an invention for most continents. But in the disconnected China it was earlier.
Absolute right
If course it was Carl Benz, not Kai Bentz. He and Gottlieb Daimler patented their cars only two days apart. Daimlers car was a fourwheeler. Benz's car was a threewheeler. Daimler lived in Stuttgart, Benz in Mannheim. When you look theese two cities, they are not far apart. Perhaps thats the matter, why they merched their factories together to Daimler-Benz.
About the rocket. Why we in Germany don't have a big space program, is because you might know the headingeneer of the german rocket program. His name is / was Wernher von Braun. He and half of his staff went to the south of Germany, when the allies marched in. So they could get caught by the american troops. The other half of the staff were catched by the russians. Perhaps now it become clear, why there was the "spacerace".
We primarily don't have a space program because Germany isn't near the equator. We have basically nowhere to launch Rockets from. Nowhere in Europe really has. That's why the European Space Agency launch their rockets in French Guiana
*Karl
@@stevenvanhulle7242 No its Carl. Look it up
Kai Benz 😄Don't trust automatic generated subtitles 😉
Ah yes, the space race. The race where americans and russians were competing over who had the best german scientists and engineers.
Fritz Haber's invention to synthesize ammonia which lead to mass production of fertilizer and explosives should have made it into top 10. Carl Linde's refridgeration , too.
I think it should be at least in the top 3
Yeah, Haber's invention, along with Bosch's industrialisation of it are the reason we are even able to sustain our large populations. And to think I never knew about them before Sabaton...
definitly. I just would say both are the most important inventions in mankind in the last 2000 years
Not to forget Haber as a jew himself, invented chlorine gas for ww1 and later for pest prevention at the time, Zyklon B the odorless variant of Zyklon A, which was used to kill millions of people during the holocaust
Imo it should share the first place with computers. Literally world changing
honorable mentions:
Haber-Bosch-process- Franz Haber, Carl Bosch
light Bulb- Heinrich Göbel
The Theory of Relavity - Albert Einstein
Regarding rocketry: 1) Germany is, together with France, the most involved country in the European Space Agency (ESA), whose launch site is in French Guiana in South America. 2) A big reason why the German space program didn't "take off" is bc the US and the Soviets poached the talent. If you know the name Werner von Braun, who was key in founding in NASA and was recruited as part of Operation Paperclip. The Soviets had a similar program, Operation Osoaviakhim.
They didnt just only poached the talents, Germany also wasnt allowed for some time after WW2 to work on rockets
As a german programmer I have to add a bit to Konrad Zuse. Like you said computers are quite complex and you can not really call out a single person for the invention. The whole idea of a computer is much older and Charles Babbage is usually credited for being the father of the computer in general. Likewise the first (famous) programmer Ada Lovelace is considered the mother of computing. She was programming just a hypothetical computer. So she was developing algorithms which could solve problems on a machine that was at that time just an idea. This is really amazing. The programming language ADA is actually named after her.
When it comes to milestones, different people set up different criteria. So the first working programmable computer was build by Zuse, but it was an electro-mechanical computer as it used relais for the logic switches. Since relais have a relatively large delay due to their mechanical properties, the speed was quite slow. The Z3 ran at 5Hz.
That's why some don't count the Z2 / Z3 as the first digital computers because they were not fully electronic. With the invention of vacuum tubes, the ENIAC became the first fully electronic programmable computer. In between the Z3 and the ENIAC there also was the "Colossus" which was the electro-mechanical "machine" capable of breaking the enigma code. Not really a fully programmable computer since it was build for a specific purpose, but it already had a lot of flexibility and given the importance it's worth mentioning :)
In the end most inventions don't really go back to a single person. They may have had the final pieces required or the necessary tools to implement it, but like most inventions they are based on the knowledge of everything that came before them.
So germans like to brag about Zuse while americans usually brag about ENIAC and the brits brag about Babbage and the Colossus. I'm german but Zuse's invention isn't related to me in any way just like what happened at WW2 isn't related to me either. We should be happy for Zuse for his success and we should learn from past to not repeat it. Just write your own history and leave a mark :)
That is some nonsense. The Zuse is universally recognized as the first fully flegded computer. It doesn't matter that it was electromechanical and not electronic. Zuse was already thinking about using tubes instead of relays. However, The Z3 ticks off all the relevant boxes such as von Neumann architecture, Turing completeness, first higher programming language (Plankalkül). It is only the typical sour losers (US, UK, Russia) who claim they have done it, when they haven't. The US even used Zuse's patents without paying him license fees and without giving him any credit.
There are countless german inventions, which are used on a daily base worldwide. We can make a list here :)
I start with 10:
- Toothpaste
- Dynamo
- bicycle
- motorbike
- periodic system
- X-Ray
- Chip card
- prosthetic legs
- the jeans
- record player (Schallplattenspieler)
- the airbag
- Zeppelin
- TV
- Tea bag
- contact lenses
- helicopter
- coffee filter
- christmas balls
- teddy bear
- washing powder
lightbulp, telephone
Electrocardiograph (EKG).
- Otto engine
- Diesel engine
Gyrocompass by Hermann Anschütz
Everyone repeats the same facts and this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless German inventions, not only unsinkable lifeboats and other technological wonders, but also such basic items commonly used all over the world as matches or toilet paper. Other countries also made absolutely groundbreaking discoveries, not only America or Great Britain.
Anybody with a basic understanding of mathematics, sciences and engineering quickly discovers that Germans and German-speaking people invented more than 80% of all modern things which enable today's living standard and quality of life.
Those inventions include grand discoveries and inventions like the computer, the television, radar, general relativitiy, the laser, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, etc. but also quality of life items for our daily existence such as the horizontal washing machine, the refridgerator, the coffee filter, tooth paste, MP3 and so on.
It is the arrogance and the fake news reality of Great Britain, of America and of Russia to think they were the big inventors.
Americans did not even invent many of their iconic brands like Levi's or Boeing. Those companies were founded by German immigrants.
1933, just before the Nazis came to power, Germany had more Nobel prizes than the next 4 countries added together.
Toilet Paper was actually invented by a new yorker not a german. but yeah, this video was only the tip of the iceberg.
I'd like to see lists with more things!
Zeiss is the only company in the world which ist able to provide the Technology (optics) needed for the big ASML Machines (euv Chips)
I would ad steel cables, invented 1834 for mining, replaces ironchains.
Gutenberg did NOT invent book printing He invented printing with movable Letters which sped up printing a lot. But people printed 700 years before his time in china
Correct, he basically invented the letter set itself (made from Tin for easy recycle, because they often printed small pictures as well) wich was basically useless in china because a set with Kanji would have been a warehouse full of stamps
Later, clever printers casted often used words or phrases together to save time.
Not only in China, in Europe, too. Older printing presses essentially used handcarved negatives of whole individual pages. But mass printing really only picked up after Gutenberg's invention, because it made printing not only faster, but much much cheaper, because you could reuse the individual letters and if one letter gets damaged, you could just replace that one instead of replacing the printing block for the whole page.
Wanted to say the same. Another factor that is often overlooked when it comes to the production of books is paper production and book binding. Otherwise you have just a few pretty pages.
@@kaltaron1284 Books and book binding is older than paper. Even with paper being cheaper than pergament, pergament was still in use long after Gutenberg, befor it became a luxury item
@@wolf310ii Yes it was in use but the whole printing thing needed far larger supply than before.
Fun fact, if I remember correctly the first cars were electric before they got combustion engines
At least Electric Cars were invented in the early 1900s or end of 1800s. It just so happened that the oil industry was really good at selling their product and making claims that combustion is better than electric. Oil was money as it is today, so electric cars were soon out of business. If they had made those better who knows what standards modern electric vehicles could have.
@@4Astaroth it was true that at the time electric cars couldn't keep up in power and range. Charging was also a problem back in the day.
It still was a major mistake to completely forget about electric cars for like 90 years.
@rubenfriedetzky1010 as it is quite often, this is a "what was first, hen or egg" problem: didn't they put effort in better batteries because there were not many such cars, or did they not build lots of those cars because there were no useful batteries.
that's also what i give tesla credit for, less for the car, but offering the combination of both the car and the loading infrastructure. and the same for the CD too, where nobody wanted to make them without cheap players, and nobody could make few cheap players when there was no media for them. only when players/recorders got massproduced for computer storage, did they really become popular.
@rubenfriedetzky1010 yes but that's part of the problem unless you want to drive your car along a power line.
@@4Astaroth At the time that petrol engined cars superseded electric cars, oil-baesd fuel was not firmly established yet. Electric cars got a bad reputation when an electric racecar - La Jamais Contente, back then the world's fastest car at a whopping 100 km/h - was disqualified after finishing a race as the frontrunner due to a jump start. When the driver Camille Jenatzky was offered to repeat the race, his batteries were empty whereas the petrol-engined cars were quickly fueled up and ready to start again. This convinced people that fuel-operated cars were more functional for everyday use than electric cars.
He missed the most important one,
Haber Bosch process
Most things Fritz Haber did where super important... Same with Bosh. They are both incredibly impacting people.
No it isn't that's just to produce ammonia other inventions like the Gutenberg press are more important !
@@gregorygant4242 sure...
@@gregorygant4242 bro, the process to produce ammonia enables our world to sustain more than ~500 million people semi permanently to this day.
Its literally top 10 most important inventions of all time, amongst wich are the domestication of Fire, invention of gunpowder (wich he also revolutionized), Steam/Combustion/Electric engines, and some more.
The printing press was important, but definitely not the most important one, the Programmable Computer is more important to our world.
@@Keksemann666 the computer would never have happend without the printing press, since the inventors sure read/learn a lot from broadly aviable books.
I'm missing Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (x-ray machine) and Otto Lilienthal (heavier than air glider). And there will be more ;-) but I'm lasy.
Nein! Der Doppelkammerteebeutel! Scheiß doch auf die blöden Strahlen, Kräutertee hat mehr Leben gerettet als Gerippefotos!
The story behind the Aggregat 4 (A4), her development, her first space flight and what happend to all the scientist working on her at the end / after WWII (e.g. Operation Paperclip) is a huuuuge and intersting rabbit hole. And, because sometimes it is kind of misleading, Wernher von Braun was not the inventor of the A4/V2. He was the technical director. Her development was a huge team effort. His job was to coordinate the reserach and development. Last but not least: A4 -> more of a "scientific" prototype rocket, V2 -> an optimised, simplified military rocket for mass production. They are not the same.
Ohropax (Literally "ear peace"; "Ohr" = German for ear, "pax" = Latin for peace) was a waxy substance that could be pressed into your outer ear canal and would dampen sound. As the material was somewhat malleable, especially once it adjusted to body temperature, it would fit each person perfectly and could be worn all night, or through working hours, with minimal (if any) discomfort -- and had the added advantage that it was very unobtrusive. It was also yet another case where a brand name eventually became generic.
The name of the inventor of the car is indeed Carl Benz. The subtitles do not do a good job here.
It looks like Google's AI created translation and for that it isn't too bad.
Born as Karl with a K and never officially changed it to Carl with a C so for me it's Karl Benz ;-)
At least we agree on Benz and don't call him Karl Vaillant - that would confuse many Germans with their heating system ;-)
its not called mercedis benz without a reason bro wtf
Dafuq do you mean?@@kiari1995
@@kiari1995 Its not called "Mercedis Benz" at all
"Who invented the computer" is a really difficult question. There are multiple aspects that a modern computer has which were not brought together into a single machine for a long while. Many early computers missed some of these aspects. Which of these is now the first "computer"? Difficult to define. Zuse's Computers were the first with some aspects, while other people's computers were first with other aspects.
Thats right. But i think the fact, that this computer was the first programmable fully automatic one, is enough to consider Zuse as the inventor of the thing as we know it today.
@@audi_gaining9725 yes, the "some aspects" of Zuses Computer are actually the essential "programming" part. Programming is clearly not just "some aspect" but probably the most important thing in the whole media world and not only that, also the Industry and in Business in general.
the device itself was zuse. a computer as an electric tool of assistance. its just not as easy to work with it in its pure form - u need to communicate with the electricity to get transistors to do what u want them to. and the operating system (that thing that provides a port for easier handling) has different inventors but the most common nowadays for home used personal computers would be windows which wasnt invented in germany tho. rank 2 linux 3 mac all not german but the computer itself yes
@@TheBlackfall234 There were programmable calculators before, but Zuse's computer was the first Turing-complete device (albeit with some nasty trickery discovered half a century after the device was built).
Zuses invention was programmable.
Everything else before was not -> therefore not a computer.
There was a german space program. Its called NASA
Nowadays the Germans are sensible and just cooperate within the European Space programme (ESA).
But after the space shuttle(that was an U.S. project) and with privatization(U.S. typical) of this stuff it went down.
What was the russian space program? They also had german engeneers to get it going.
i would say the (Rudolf) Diesel engine (used in almost all ships and big Trucks around the world) , the electron microscope, the 35mm film format and the SLR camera are more important than teabags.
I beg to differ *sips tea cuz east frisian*
Not the 35mm film itself but the 35mm photo camera was a German invention.
i think they wanted to show the breadth of inventions. every day mondane items like tea bags, to cars, jets, computers and security enhancements like chip cards. I remember the disposable "chip phone cards" in germany (you know when there were phone booths) in the 90s. always blew my mind that in spite of the huge acceptance of credit cards and debit cards, chips on card were not a thing until after 2015 here in the US.
4:24 There were also things like: The gas stove was invented in the 1820s and only came into normal households well over 100 years later! My grandma, for example, still cooked with a coal oven until the 1980s!
The A4 rocket was a ballistic missile with a range of about 300-330km. It is also known as V2 and used by the Germans in WWII. It would go to space but only for a short while. It wouldn't go to orbit. It was developed by Wernher von Braun who was brought to the US after the war through secret operations called Operation Overcast and Operation Paperclip. He was with NASA from day 1 and helped develop the family of Saturn rockets. The most famous is of course the Saturn V used in the Apollo program.
Braun did not "help" develop the Saturn. He developed it.
Without him (and other German Scientists) = no US Space Program/Moon Landing.
Didn't you react to the Wuppertal Flying Train video from 1902? Aspirin was invented only five years prior to that video right next to that train track (on the right side) in a laboratory inside the Bayer factory in Wuppertal. The factory is right next to Varresbecker Str. station, which the train passes in the video.
I would have expected the lightbulb, Hamburgers, bacteriology, the telephone. Perhaps even the stuff Zeiss does in medicine/battery tech.
And they feature ... tea bags.
Several inventors played a part in the creation of the light bulb. In fact, scientists including Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy, James Bowman Lindsay, Warren de la Rue, William Staite, and Joseph Swan all played their part in its eventual creation. And then of course the official one, Thomas Edison - none of them are German AFAIK.
also hamburgers aren't a german invention.
The credit for the telephone is shared by Alexander Graham Bell, Antonio Meucci and Elisha Gray, also not German.
@@LuCoolUsMeatballs aka Frikadellen Bouletten Fleischpflanzerl existed in Germany long before the USA existed.
exactly why would the feature tea bags if cofffee filtrs were an option :P
The German Konrad Wilhelm Röntgen invented X-rays
"invented"
Germans prefer to use cash, because you actually can physically see how much money you spend and how much you still have left. It gives you a better feeling for your money and you can easily learn how to handle it 🙃
That's one good reason to use cash. You simply can't spend money you don't have and you always know how much you have left. It also makes you more aware that you are spending money because every time you actually have to give away something "physical" (even if it's only banknotes and coins). That more likely makes you "feel the consequences" right away (and you might rethink if it's really worth it, whatever you're purchasing) while using a credit card (or any "get it now, pay later" offer) might emphasize the "reward" you can get *now* and neglect thoughts about later.
Another reason for using cash can be privacy concerns. Maybe, you don't want your bank to know exactly what you're spending your money for or to make it too easy to create a "customer profile" by being able to link all the purchases you make to your credit card or bank account. (What if the data gets stolen or is shared with other companies?) Cash is more difficult to track and there's usually no exchange of personal information (or any sort of "common" ID that could be used to link multiple purchases) involved in a cash transaction.
I used to say that too. But I have not used physical money for a decade now and I am still not broke. When you do your financial bookkeeping right (at least once a month) you will eventually get a feeling for what you can afford and what not.
@@ronaldderooij1774 I use both cash and card. One thing about cash: you don't leave a trail for the nsa to follow 😁
German space program was the US space program. A bunch of german engineers worked on it including the chief architect of Saturn V.
Interesting that you find it strange that we still often pay with cash, but workers in the USA still get their money by Paycheck instead of by bank transfer.
The Americans and those in many Anglo-Saxon countries think that they are advanced because they have a cashless
, digital payement system .
New flash , that's bad ,very very bad !
Having a cashless digital system and not accepting cash is bad because then you are under the full control
of the ruling elites , they can do what they want with your money, freeze it, turn it off , you're f!cked !
Japan , Germany still keep cash around, less control by the ruling elites of their citizens , THAT'S SMART !
6:02 With the space programme. It depends on how you look at it. Although the German Aerospace Centre does not operate a comparable spaceport for large rockets within Germany such as Cape Canaveral or similar, which is also difficult as Germany is heavily populated, Germany is an integral part of the European Space Agency. And the ESA operates a spaceport for large rockets in French Guiana (part of the EU) in South America in Kourou. And Germany makes important contributions to ESA and also co-operates with NASA. There are important space sectors in Germany. For example, astronauts are being trained and research is being conducted into agriculture in space. Parts of the Orion lunar spaceship of the NASA Artemis mission are also built in Germany. There are also companies that operate in a similar way to SpaceX, albeit on a much smaller scale. Small satellites and rockets that will take them into orbit are being developed in Germany. There will also soon be a floating spaceport (German-Offshore Spaceport Alliance) in the North Sea for smaller rockets.
Also don't forget Zeiss mirrors in the space telescopes
I had to look that up, and you are right: French Guiana is part of the EU - which isn't always the case for Extra-European overseas territories, especially if devolved to some degree, for example, Greenland, that is neither part of the EU nor the EEC, but its citizen can apply for EU citizenship if they wanted to as a simple formality.
@@Thoringer Now that you mention Greenland and its current status. Thanks for the interesting points! Greenland is an interesting case study. Greenland was once part of the EC (European Community, the EC is the predecessor of the EU), but left the Community. That means before the "Brexit" there was a "Greexit". The reason for leaving was because they felt disadvantaged by new fishing laws and wanted more autonomy from Denmark and stronger ties with the USA. Today, however, there are special agreements with the EU that guarantee Greenland advantages. Such as access to the internal market and financial support, or the advantages you mentioned.
@@NoZoDE Thanks for the addition!
(Edit: MOVEABLE) Printing press was invented in China by Bi Sheng (990-1051) at least 200 years before Gutenberg.
And he didn't mention some of the most important inventions at all.
Bicycle - Karl von Drais 1817
Light bulb - Heinrich Göbel - 1854 (not patented, 25 years before Edison)
Telephone - Philipp Reis 1859 (not patented)
Periodic table - Lothar Meyer 1864
Dynamo/tram - Werner von Siemens 1866
Bacteriology - Robert Koch 1870
(Jeans - Lewis Strauss 1873)
Refrigerator - Carl von Linde 1876
X-rays - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 1885
Record player - Emil Berliner 1887
Diesel engine - Rudolf Diesel 1896
Radar - Christian Hülsmeyer 1904
Ammonium synthesis - Fritz Haber 1908 (½ of world population live because of this invention!)
Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein 1915
pocket camera - Oskar Barnack (Leica-Leitz Camera) 1925
TV - Manfred von Ardenne 1930
Electron microscope - Ernst Ruska 1931
Helicopter - Heinrich Fokker 1932
Nuclear fission - Otto Hahn 1938
It meant the MOVEABLE printing press , printing presses that were NOT moveable had already been around for many years , listen carefully people before posting dumb comments !
@@gregorygant4242 Movable type was first created by Bi Sheng (990-1051), who used baked clay, which was very fragile. The Yuan-dynasty official Wang Zhen is credited with the introduction of wooden movable type, a more durable option, around 1297.
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Edit: 20-30 sec of research is obviously too much work for some (really dumb) people...
@@gregorygant4242 un po' imbarazzante per te, vero?🤣
Poverino!
@@gregorygant4242 people too stupid to acquire knowledge, shouldn't comment ether
@@gregorygant4242 somewhere in the world there a Gregory out there who needs to believe in UA-cam videos because universities are too expensive 🫰🏻
Not only did germany invent the first jet fighter, german also invented the first jet aircraft, the Heinkel He 178
Every jet fighter is a jet aircraft but not every jet aircraft is a jet fighter
@@DieGurke_ Yes?
He 178, First Flight 27. August 1939
Me 262: First Flight 18. July 1942.
@@Guderian2 Aircrafts are every thing that can fly and isnt an animal. And Jet Aircraft isneverything that uses an jet engine.
@@DieGurke_ The fuck do you want?
The He 178 was a Jet aircraft that flew before the Me 262 you don't make any sense whatsofucking ever with your comments.
Yeah, an with the Horten H2, even the first version of a stealth jet with a delta wing, from which the legendary Northrop B2 got it’s inspiration, after WW2 was over. 🙂
there are so many more german inventions…Bicycle, motorbike, dolls, TV, remote control, nuclear fission, pocket camera, electric bulp (edison just got the first patent in it but did not invent it), Telephone, the count down (3, 2, 1…), microscope, x-rays, and many more
how about the ball bearing grinding machine? invented in my hometown Schweinfurt. imagine the world without that.
Filter Coffee Machines and the famous Melitta Filter bag
I read that the Germans were about 60 years ahead of other countries in technological development. All knowledge and patents were "exported" to the USA after the Second World War. This also included the developers of rockets who then joined NASA.
Fun fact: German patents are regularly violated by other countries, especially the US.
The last major incident was the Anthrax incidents. It has been a while but when those terrorist activities were going on, the only available antidote for Anthrax was patented and made by a German company (BAYER). They were ready to sell to the US government in accordance with typical US pharma lobby free market rules...which meant: deal of a lifetime. Only one source for supply, and huge demand.
This should mean: astronomical pricing, and the Muricans would have to pay it, just the same way US pharmaceutical companies charge the shit out of their products whenever they are the only supplier.
Well, well, the US government did not like the German free market approach of supply and demand and threatened the German company to declare their product policy a threat to national security. They threatened BAYER by saying they would simply confiscate the patent and give it to a competitor of BAYER so that the competitor would be able to make the Anthrax antidote for a very low price. "We will find ways" was stated to the press when BAYER insisted on their pricing of 1,83 Dollar per pill and a minimum order of ten million pills.
BAYER had to accept the blackmail and they had to sell them the antidote for a rididculously low price. BAYER barely made any profit despite the R&D costs and the expenses for qualifying the antidote under the much stricter pharma rules of the European Union.
This is how the US treats the intellectual and industrial properties of other nations.
@@bobbwc7011 Yes, that's how they do it... and they always get away with it.
The first spaceport stationed at sea is soon to be built here. From which rockets are launched, from the sea.
7:39 that is not Kai Bentz. He said: "Karl Benz". That is the right name of the inventor of the Car Brand Mercedes Benz. His wife Bertha was the first woman to drive 110 kilometres by car to visit her parents. There is a historical short film from Mercedes that shows this.
"....without skipping tracks" that one send me waaaaqaay back. Greetings from Germany
Honestly there is no definite answer on who developed the first computer. I am a CS student and took a seminar about the history of computing technology where we did a lot of research about the first computers. There were multiple computing machines developed at the same time and depending on what definition you use the devloper of the first computer could be either Babbage, von Neumann, Turing, Zuse or Eckert and Maulchy (there are a few more possibilities actually).
But germans like to calim it was Zuse, because he was german...
in regards to the space program. Afer Nazi Germany lost WWII all Space/Rocket Engineers were either "trasferred" to the US (just google Werner von Braun) or Russia to continue the space race. In Germany we had to bulid up the country first and then joint ESA the European Space Aency later on.
There's a phrase about the printing press that I heard a while ago which describes pretty well why Gutenberg's printing press is considered the "first one", even though printing was a thing in China way earlier:
"If Karl Benz had invented the car the way Gutenberg invented the printing press, he would've built a complete Porsche 911 as a first draft"
Gutenberg's printing press didn't just print onto paper. You can make something like that with half a potato. Gutenberg's printing press featured movable type, which allowed a high degree of flexibility and reusability. It was built highly durable and very user friendly. He also developed a lot of the specialized tools necessary to build the press itself as well as for making the letters. It was such a complete product that it took nearly 300 years, until 1796, for the next iteration of printing, that being lithography. Which in itself didn't replace Gutenberg's printing concept either, but was just the first flat printing method. It took until 1912 for the first web offset printing machine to be built, about 400 years after Gutenberg built his printing press, which is still generally the printing concept used today.
In my opinion, you're entirely correct in comparing the printing press to the internet. Language made information shareable. Writing made shared information persistent. The printing press made written information infinitely reproducible. The internet made reproduced information infinitely shareable. All of them were monumental achievements in information technology.
I also agree on your hesitance regarding the computer. While the printing press can still be attributed to one man, computers are so immensely complex that attributing them to one person is impossible. Ada Lovelace, for example, is considered one of the first computer programmers before computers were a thing, because she laid a lot of the theoretical ground work for them. But Zuse did build the first programmable computer. What's even more impressive, though, is that after it and all technical documentation were destroyed in the war, he rebuilt the entire thing from memory in the 60s just so it could be displayed in a museum. The 60s were 20 years after the war. I work in IT and every time I come back from even just the weekend, I remember exactly nothing of the code I wrote on Friday. Complete madlad.
The rocket in the video was unmanned, Germany had a ballistic missile program in WWII that required rocket-technology. However, after the war, Germany didn't have any significant ways to make a space program work, as Germany had to invest its resources into rebuilding the country and economy, as well as the fact that both the Soviets and the Americans poached the German scientists responsible for the previous innovations in rocket-technology. Wernher von Braun, originally a scientist for the 3rd Reich was one of the heads behind the Apollo program that got the Americans to the moon.
As I was born in Haarlem (Netherlands) it is my civic duty to deny history and say that Laurens Janszoon Coster invented printing. Yes it is true that the Germans beat us with the first printed publication by two weeks, but who can tell who was the first with the idea? It is funny to see that the invention of the printing press was done independently at two places simultaneously. I will now be serious: Congrats Germany, you beat us by two weeks.... (crying noises).
In 1440 there was no such thing like a common "deutsche" or "Nederlandse" identity so it`s a bit silly to claim it to be a "german invention" back in the day it probably would be more difficult and strange for me beeing from northwestern Germany to talk to a person from Mainz than to a person from Haarlem. dus maak je er geen zorgen over mijn vriend!
Aw 😢
For me, number one would be the invention of the artificial fertilizer (1905 to 1908) by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch
Btw. The reason why germans love cash is... ok, there are 2 reasons:
first the love traditions and money was there long before the credit-/ debitcard was. it's the reason most german prefer money.
but there is a second reason. for some people it is the security of private data. if you pay with a card the bank or the shops may give your personal data incl. what you buyed to some marketing freaks. they will send you lots of advertising base on what you bought.
A german (Fritz Haber) developed a method for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, which could be used to manufacture artificial fertilizer. He initially did this for military purposes, but ended up saving the lives of millions/billions by solving hunger on a global scale through mass-manufactuable fertilizer allowing agriculture on far grander scales than priviously possible.
"important inventions" the current german goverment dosnt think fertillizer produktion is important
The Haber-Bosch process is missing. It should be in the top 3, if not first. It made it possible to mass produce ammonia, which is used for fertilizer. It is the reason the earth can feed such a large population.
it’s the chip that is being used in a creditcard… The chip can be used for other things as well ;-)
Including bank cards that we actually use but no one ever mentions.
@@MellonVegan indeed, or even id ‘s
Its a good video but i kinda miss the diesel engine here.
google ESA and DLR for european space program or german space program
11:20: To pronounce the name "Zuse" correctly you can write the name in phonetic English "Tsoo-Ze". The "e" is pronounced like the short "e" in the word "let". Kind regards from Braunschweig ("Brown-Shvike"), Germany ("Doytsh-Lunt").😊
The reasons Germany doesn't have a bigger space program are mainly that it's part of the ESA (European space agency) so it doesn't really need a separate program and also the fuel required to get a rocket to space increases exponentially the further you are from the equator (because the rotational speed is slower, the rocket isn't "flung out" as much and this needs more fuel). That's also why almost all space launch sites are either on or near the equator
The first working tape recorder was from? And what about radar?
Wir können sehr stolz darauf sein, was wir alles in unserer Kultur erfunden und geschafft haben! Und nicht zu vergessen, dass wir auch in der klassichen Musik ganz vorne dabei sind :)
My first MP3 player had like 128mb for 199euros or something like that, but dude it had a display with blue lighting an in ear headphones in the box. I felt like a cyborg with that thing.
Konrad Zuse was the first one who actually engineered a computer; it’s just like the internet was a European cooperation, e.g.
Fridge, respectively the refrigeration plant. Invented by Carl von Linde.
Haber-Bosch-process. Used to convert nitrogen out of the ambient air into ammonia. Hugely important for fertilizer production!
I miss in this list some important inventions that changed the world. The Diesel engine. The X-rays. The lightbulb (yes, the patent got Eddison but invented it was by Heinrich Göbel). The telephone (Johann Philipp Reis). The first flying device (Otto Lilienthal). The theory of relativity. And pleas also don't forget the Gummibär. 😁
We built quite a few things at the end of the war. Some people couldn’t just lose… no for real some Programs during that time were sabotaged by their own ingeneers. It is believed that the two scientists who worked on a German Atombomb (which hated each other) sabotaged their own work. But the best sabotaging was carried out by Norwegians who sunk a German ship which had heavy Water for a Atombomb on board.
The thing is though that the German nuclear program (which was long said to be a myth but did exist) wasn't quite what the Americans and later Soviets did. German nukes would have been closer to what we call a "dirty nuke", i.e. it's more like a lot of explosives meant to scatter nuclear material in a large area to irradiate it whereas a proper nuclear weapon actually fissions the atoms (their cores, specifically) to create smaller cores which is what also unleashes all the energy in the form of shock and heat. Radiation is more of a by-product here rather than the main purpose, though of course it's still plenty strong.
I'm missing Johann Philipp Reis, he did the first phone call in 1861.
First transferred sentence, "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat." (The horse does not eat cucumber salad.)
The first successful glider flight was completed by the German Otto Lilienthal. On the basis of its wing design, the Büder Writh were able to perform their first powered flight
"The internet of the physical world" Nice. That's a description I have to remember as it's a great analogy
Also german inventions:
Nuclear bomb
firtst Stealthjet: Horten ho 229
X Ray
Kai Bentz? That was a good Joke. 😂😂😂
Some more:
Electric motor (Moritz Herman Jacobi)
Dynamo (Werner von Siemens)
Telephone (Johann Philipp Reis)
Combustion motor (Nicolaus Otto)
Diesel motor (Rudolf Diesel)
Car (Carl Benz)
Motorbike (Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz)
Lightbulb (Heinrich Göbel)
Telefon (Johann Philipp Reis)
X-Ray (Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen)
Radar (Christian Hülsmeyer)
Rotation printing for Newspapers - Heidelberg company
Scanner (Rudolf Hell / Linotype-Hell company)
Mikroscope (Hans Janssen)
TV (Manfred von Ardenne)
The 1936 Berlin Olympics have been still broadcasted live on TV in Germany. The TV devices have been extremely expensive and ordinary people could not afford one. So the sportsbar was also invented as bars and cafes bought a TV set and offered their customer to see the Olympics live on TV. The TV coverage was not nationwide, there was only TV in larger cities.
Ja, wir sind echt gut darin etwas zu entwickeln, womit jemand anderes Kasse machen kann 😅
the diesel engine is missing for sure in this video.
The thing with inventions is, often for an idea the time just has come. The jet engine for example was developed simultaneously by a German and English mechanic without knowing each other.
So the idea that a single person is "the" inventor is a little old. Also for stuff like the automobile there are a lot of ideas from different minds from different countries playing together. So defining the one person who is "the" inventor is difficult.
Chip card vs. cash: If you pay cashless, your payment can be tracked back to you, no matter what you bought and where. Also, the companies will be able to send you more advertisements based on your purchases. There's more to this, like surveillance and all. Paying with cash will prevent all of this. Cash is a means of privacy. I myself prefer cash, too. I only pay cashless when I have to.
Good choice, Ryan. With your reaction video a lot if oeople tell interesting stuff. This is marvelous. I enjoy the discussions a lot.
He should replace those unimportant earplugs on his list by TV set and X-ray
Depending on noise level, earplugs are the better choice. But it works up to a certain level only.
You are wrong that Germany does not have a space program . Have you ever heard of an organization within the EU called the European Space Agency? It is an intergovernmental organization established to implement a common European program for the exploration and use of space. Its tasks also include supporting the development of modern and competitive industry in the Member States. ESA consists of 22 Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Poland (since November 2012), Portugal, Romania, Switzerland , Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, Hungary. Canada participates in the work of ESA under a separate agreement.
about 1b - Invention of modern computers by Konrad Zuse (spelled: Suse): As a tribute to his invention one of the most popular linux systems is called 'SuSe linux'.
6:29 the time where space programs became big, germany was rebuilding from war and had to pay massive amounts of reparations, while being sliced into 2/3 and 1/3
It was about video formats: MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG3... every video also needs audio.
This is how the audio formats MP1, MP2 and MP3 were developed.
MP3 stands for motion picture 3rd generation, but this is about audio.
As a German i have to say:
1.) The Jet- Engine was a invenrion by a extrem young English boy, he understud that a Jet-Motor is imaginabel. All experts refuse. As he prove that its work Royl Airforce stop it and gave the patents open for germany, and they bring the Jet-Engine togather with a plane. It looks like, they want to gave Hitler a chance in the beginning to heat up the Shitt... the rest iis c-theorie.
2.) World population is not abel with out Stickstoff, the chemical produktion helps the Farmers extrem and stopped Hunger in many regiones.
3) We inventet the first Flyers with man on it. We test them, for many years. So the first pilotes qas german ones. But if that was done in the US some one hat the grest idear to propel it and make it useabel.
The same with the computer, or atomic bombs. The idear comes from germany.
Or SolarcellProduction: German make it china use it as massproduktion and was very thankful.
So basicaly we want to brings thinks to life and chare it for use.
But the US and GB culture try to focus us to make Money by invention since that we reduce our thinking and did not make big inventions for the world.
Never the less, the first Multicopter, that transport a human was near Karlsruhe, Germany.
And the best Droneconcept for humans was invented in München, Germany.
But i am sure, i mist the most importabd thinks:
● free thinking
● the unknowen struktue of modern societys
● Voting by individuel resistend chart, to find the best ways to alocation
Haha it's always funny how Americans do not know that it was the Germans who brought NASA to the moon. And yes, Germany has a space program called ESA (European Space Agency) in Partnership with other European contries. They also work together with NASA, SpaceX and Roskosmos (the Russian Space Adency). You had the Apollo rocket and the Space Shuttle, we have our powerfull Ariane rockets which starts from French Guiana in South America mostly for cargo missions.
ESA also started to work with India when I'm not mistaken.
V2 Rocket A4 was the first ballistic rocket in the world used in WWII.
The first liquid fueled rocket.
yes, true @@wolf310ii
Die V-2 erreichte als erste von Menschen gebaute Maschine den Weltraum, der nach einer willkürlichen und durchaus umstrittenen Definition achtzig Kilometer über der Erde beginnt. That was my point. @@wolf310ii
4:10 as we say in germany "Nur bares ist wahres" - "only cash is real = cash is king"
07:40 Karl Benz was right. "Kai" was only misunderstood by the automatic speech recognition.
Germany is a member of ESA, which is the second largest non-private space program in the world.
actually gutenberg also invented the internet. but he decided to not make it public because it would have had destroyed the buchdruck. smart guy.
Mp3: it's not only the invention of the mp3 format, but the complete knowledge of how to compress audio data without noticeable loss in quality. They did extensive theoretical and practical studies over many years which then resulted in the creation of the mp3 format. But basically all modern audio codecs are still heavily depending on the results of the fundamental study. So instead of "just" inventing mp3 it would be more correct to say inventing loss-less audio codecs.
Rocket engine: Germans were the first to put a unmanned objects into space and had actively used the rockets in WW2 (though it was too late to make a difference). After the war russia and the US took the technology from germany and fought over who could recruit most of the german rocket scientiests. They then used that technology and the scientiest to found their own space programs. Later russia was the first to sent a manned object to space (first a dog, later a human) and the US famously used the technology for the first flight to the moon. The reason Germany does not have a bigger space programm today has two parts. It was forbidden to do any study on it by the allies for several decades and the geographical location of germany does not make it a goid choice for launching something into space. Only near the equator it's the most cheap to launch.
Computer: zuse might have been the first with his Computer, but due to Ww2 no one in the West knew about his invention and until the war had ended some other people had already invented it as well, and due the effects of the war his newest computer model wasn't even the most advanced anymore. So though he was the first to invent it, his invention did not shape the further development. (He was one of the big losers of this war)
MP3 is a lot more important then "for new form-factor devices", because it paved the way to high quality communication, streaming, movies on discs and the development of new compression algorithm with calculated data loss in general.
Germans use cash because of both trust and the fact that using credit cards is very expensive for the vendor.
The more important part about developing an electrical motor is having indirectly essentially developed a power generator, that can turn movement into electricity.
The important part about the printing press was making knowledge publicly available, spreading knowledge throughout society and building the cornerstone of advancing it.
The problem with deciding on who build the first computer, is that neither standard nor the threshold of "what is a computer" is precisely defined.
- There is, for instance, the "Antikythera mechanism" mechanism, which is considered an analog computer developed by the Ancient Greeks from about 60 BC.
- The first known analog computer after that was created by Vannevar Bush in 1927, called the "Differential Analyzer".
- The first mechanical computer was developed by Charles Babbage in the 1830s called the "Analytical Engine".
- The first relay computer was the Zuse Z2/Z3, developed in 1938 and demonstrated in 1941 ( the Z1 was a mechanical computer from 1937 ).
- The first electrical computer was invented in 1937 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry using vacuum-tubes, though the first functional such machine was created by J. Presper Eckerl and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945.
- The first computer using transistor technology was proven functional in 1953, and was developed by the University of Manchester.
- The first ternary computer was developed by the Russian "Nikolai Brusentsov" and "Sergei Sobolev" at the Moscow State University in 1958: The Setun. It used ferrite diode matrices and magnet core memory, which together with it's base principle made it a lot cheaper while equally performant than binary systems based on transistor technology.
- The first microchip computer was the IBM System/360, announced in 1964, based on the work of Jack Kilby from Texas Instruments and Roberty Noyce from Fairchild Semiconductors, who invented the microchip in 1958-1959.
... as you can see, there are a lot of "firsts" in this list, and depending on whom you ask, the answer varies accordingly. I, for one, am undecided as to what to call the first computer, mostly because I have trouble calling a room sized device qualifying in both heat and sound as an overcrowded smithy, a computer.
Regarding the Agregat 4 (V2) rocket: Yes, it flew into space technically, reaching more than 100 km, but it wasn't an orbital flight and of course it wasn't manned. Russia actually was pretty advanced in rocket technology in early 20th century as well, but during the 30s, they didn't manage to scale their rocket motors up. After the war, they were the firsts who built an orbiting satelite and then sent the first person to space. Considering the costs of a space program, Germany today cooperates with other European countries in the esa and often with NASA, the japanese and other space organisations.
Earplugs are in the list but not the "dübel"? Wtf....it make mounting something so much easier...
You dont need to grab a hammer,poke a hole in the wall, mix concrete,grab a peiece of wood and glue it with the concrete or cement in that hole, wait till its dry to screw a screw in it....change a 24 hour procedure to a 2minute "hold my beer" situation...
As a craftsman i am very thankfull to mr. Fischer!!!
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"ohropax" was made original of wax and cotton wool. if you hold it in your hand for a while or start rolling it between some fingers, the wax warmed up and you can put it in your ear and it would fit perfectly, after usage, you could simply remove it, cause of the cotton wool and re-use it if neccessary.
The subtitles are generated by automatic speech recognition and are therefore not always correct. For example, as you said, his name is Karl and not Kai Benz.
I expected to see Fritz Haber somewhere on the top. Most people will know him as the chap who invented poison gas as a weapon, which is by no means a great invention (albeit historically important). But he also invented the Haber-Bosch process for synthesising Ammonia, which could be used as a fertiliser and was one of the crucial factors in feeding the world population (another one was invented by Norman Borlaug, look him up). Fritz Haber is a very interesting personality - he helped kill millions of people, but he also helped keeping millions from starving. He was a militant German nationalist, but also a Jew, so while he was one of the greatest contributors to the German war effort in World War One, he was also persecuted as a Jew because according to the Nazis the Jews were responsible for losing the first world war.
Fun Fact: The Song they used to develope the mp3 format was "Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner"
The main critique point I have, is that he uses visuals if modern follow up inventions when he talks about it.
Gonna mention Jusust von Liebig here. He basically was a mastermind as he established (not invented) modern chemistry as a field. his most important invention is artificial fertilizer. without this, the worlds population would not be higher than a few hundred million poeple.
he basically intented the way to feed us all
Europe has a big space program, it's called Ariane which is a combined of counties in the ESA. The Ariane 6 should have a first testflight this year
In more recent years (1995) Germans invented the LSTM - according to Bill Gates a "huge milestone in advancing artificial intelligence". it was the first time, that neural networks had memory. Today LSTMs are not that much in use anymore, as transformer architectures are more efficient. But the LSTM paved the way for generative AI.
Germany does not need a Space Agency as it already is a member of EASA (European Aero Space Agency).
Hey, greetings and thank you for making a video out of my suggestion so quickly! It's kind of crazy when you think about it and somehow don't even know what's all being invented in the world right now, you don't really get it.
Raphael
5:30 "no one ever before thought of shoving something in your ear!?" - i think it probably simply wasn't necessary before the industrial revolution.
"Headache? Kick it in the ass-pirine!"
Actual slogan used in their commercial
The same company also invented Heroin
modern phones are actually billions of times more powerful than the Z1