Name something the Germans invented without googling

Everyone knows they invented the Haber-Bosch process. Pretty important shit.

Don’t get me started on the Haber process. My students will tell you that I can and will go on for half an hour about how it prolonged WW1 and is one of the first commercial processes to make use of Le Chateliers principle.

Also, probably best not to spend too much time idolizing Fritz Haber, ~~as I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler.~~ edit: I mixed up Haber with someone else, but his research was foundational in developing many German chemical weapons, including Zyklon B

Edit 2: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.

Really a fascinating bit of science history

I recall that one of the men ended up shooting themselves or their wives did or something along those lines. It was the one that did his best to kill as many people with chemical weapons as he could.

I’m pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler

The exact opposite is true.

I must have been remembering that his research between the World Wars lead to the development of Zyklon B muddled that up with some other chemist (maybe Otto Ambros?). I’ll see if I can find my source.

Edit: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.

And Haber of Haber-Bosch fame also invented using poisonous gas as a weapon in WW1.

Name something the Germans didn’t invent.

But they were the first to have a bakery attached.

Nope. The Brits did that, in South Africa, iirc.

You are supposed to mention things the Germans didn’t invent in this section.

Oh, right. Somehow I only noticed the original post.

IN THIS HOUSE IT WAS ANTONIO MEUCCI, END OF DISCUSSION!

Okay then, glass. Invented in 9th century in Spain.

Civil engineering. And they’ve been confused at how the Italians beat them to it ever since

Germany actually did invent this. The brothers Wright only stuck an engine to it. The first glider that actually deserved its name was inveted by Otto Lilienthal. He died in it. Without his work, the Wright brothers would not have been able to build their plane.

All inventions being based on some previous work, is it not the Wright who invented the airplane, and Lilienthal who invented the glider?

Technically, the Wrights’ main contribution was the 3-axis steering mechanism, which is what made powered flight practical.

Germans known inefficiency pretty damn well, I can tell you that much.

Greggs sausage rolls. Or are we counting the Anglo-Saxons as ex-pats?

And what about Mozart?

The number zero, sanitation, statistics.

They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal

Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.

They didn’t invent East Germany.

Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn’t invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.

" I also like hiraeth. It’s a Welsh concept of longing for home."

Weird way to spell “Heimweh”

Or homesickness. Fernweh, on the other hand, only exists (somewhat) in English in idioms, afaik: itchy feet

Any word in Welsh is a weird way to spell a word.

TIL that’s a feeling and not just the TF2 laughing emote

Its more than a feeling.

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