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German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist. 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.
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.
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.
Germany portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inventions from Germany . The main article for this category is List of German inventions and discoveries .
Uprising of 1953 in East Germany: 100,000 protestors gathered at dawn, demanding the reinstatement of old work quotas and, later, the resignation of the East German government. At noon German police trapped many of the demonstrators in an open square; Soviet tanks fired on the crowd, killing hundreds and ending the protest. 1954: 4 July
Aerial image of the science museum "Deutsches Museum" (center) in the city center of Munich on an island of the Isar river. The Deutsches Museum, 'German Museum' of Masterpieces of Science and Technology in Munich is one of the largest science and technology museums in the world in terms of exhibition space, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.
Bone fragments unearthed in a cave in central Germany show that our species ventured into Europe's cold higher latitudes more than 45,000 years ago - much earlier than previously known - in a ...
1816 – The most likely originator of the Bicycle is the German, Baron Karl von Drais, who rode his 1816 machine while collecting taxes from his tenants. 1819 – SS Savannah, the first vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean partly under steam power, arrives at Liverpool, England from Savannah, Georgia. 1819 - Denis Johnson invents kick scooter.