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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 ...
Nicholas Mercator (1620-1687), mathematician, also known by his German name Kauffmann, was a 17th-century; Adam Olearius (1599-1671), geographer; Hennig Brand (1630-1682), He discovered the chemical element phosphorus. Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682), alchemist, He developed the theory of phlogiston; David Origanus, astronomer
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
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.
American inventor and aeronautics pioneer [13] Henry Beachell: 1906–2006: 100: American developer of "miracle rice" [14] Wilfried de Beauclair: 1912–2020: 108: Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist [15] Arnold Orville Beckman: 1900–2004: 104: American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments [16] Bei Shizhang ...
20th-century German inventors (204 P) 21st-century German inventors (11 P) G. Johannes Gutenberg (1 C, 12 P) S. Werner von Siemens (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category ...
Daniel Prenn (1904–1991), German-Polish-British tennis player, highest world ranking # 6; Birgit Prinz (born 1977), football player; Lina Radke (1903–1983), athlete; Teodor Regedziński (also known as Theodor Reger) (1894–1954), Polish chess master of German origin; father's name was Reger; Otto Rehhagel (born 1938), football player and ...