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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
Pages in category "German inventions of the Nazi period" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
1939 - the invention of the military nerve agent sarin (Schrader, Ritter, Linde und Ambros), the invention of the insecticide DDT (Schrader and P. G. Muller), the development of artificial fat manufacturing technology (Reppe), the beginning of work on the use of nuclear energy, the beginning work on radar technology, the first flights of ...
Ernst Abbe: Invented the first refractometer, and many other devices. Donated his shares in the company Carl Zeiss to form Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, still in existence today. Franz Carl Achard: Developed a process to produce sugar from sugar beet. Built the first factory for the process in 1802. Robert Adler: Invented a better television remote control.
The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...
The Enigma machine was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. [4] The German firm Scherbius & Ritter, co-founded by Scherbius, patented ideas for a cipher machine in 1918 and began marketing the finished product under the brand name Enigma in 1923, initially targeted at commercial markets. [5]
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"
Before World War II, the Germans saw the potential for aircraft powered by the jet engine constructed by Hans von Ohain in 1936. [15] [16] After the successful test flights of the world's first jet aircraft—the Heinkel He 178—within a week of the invasion of Poland which started the conflict, they adopted the jet engine for an advanced fighter aircraft.