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German inventions and discoveries are ideas, objects, processes or techniques invented, innovated or discovered, partially or entirely, by Germans. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: German scientist credited with the development of the electrophorus. Justus von Liebig: German chemist who made contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry. Otto Lilienthal: Father of Aviation and first successful aviator. Main discovery was the properties and shape of the wing.
Bayer. 1863. The German pharmaceutical company created the "drug of the century" — aspirin. The company trademarked it in 1899 and aspirin soon became the No. 1 drug in the world.
German inventions of the Nazi period (1 C, 57 P) S. Skat (card game) (28 P) Sports originating in Germany (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "German inventions"
At a time when British and American destroyers had changed little from their un-turreted, single-gun mounts and light weaponry, the Japanese destroyers were bigger, more powerfully armed, and faster than any similar class of vessel in the other fleets. The Japanese destroyers of World War II are said to be the world's first modern destroyer. [12]
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From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.