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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
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. Carl von Linde: Engineer who, among other things, developed refrigeration and gas separation technologies.
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"
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.
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), Germany – invented the first programmable general-purpose computer (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4) Vasily Zvyozdochkin (1876–1956), Russia – matryoshka doll (together with Sergey Malyutin) Vladimir Zworykin (1889–1982), Russia/U.S. – Iconoscope, kinescope
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.
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Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press.Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing.