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Christian Hülsmeyer: German inventor of the Telemobilskop, a radio-based detector of remote objects; a 1904 precursor of radar. Alexander von Humboldt: Naturalist and explorer. His quantitative work on botanical geography was foundational to the field of biogeography. Wilhelm von Humboldt: Originator of the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2] Ottomar Anschütz and the Skladanowsky brothers were early pioneers of film technology , while Paul Nipkow and Karl Ferdinand Braun laid the foundation of the television with their Nipkow disk and ...
Augustus Siebe (1788–1872), Germany/UK – Inventor of the standard diving dress Sir William Siemens (1823–1883), Germany – regenerative furnace Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), Germany – electric elevator , Electromote (= first trolleybus ), an early Dynamo
Johannes Gutenberg (1396-1468), was a German inventor and craftsman who introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg invented the printing press, which later spread across the world.
Germany has been the home of many famous inventors and engineers, such as Johannes Gutenberg, who is credited with the invention of movable type printing press in Europe; Hans Geiger, the creator of the Geiger counter; and Konrad Zuse, who built the first electronic computer. [39]
German inventors (10 C, 2 P) M. Morphine (15 P) ... Pages in category "German inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 213 total.
19th-century German inventors (150 P) 20th-century German inventors (204 P) 21st-century German inventors (11 P) G. Johannes Gutenberg (1 C, 12 P) S. Werner von ...
Ruth Westheimer (1928–2024), German-American sex therapist, talk show host, author, Doctor of Education, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. William the Silent (1533–1584), German-born main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs [25] Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), art historian and archaeologist