German Forces Launch Offensive in Northern Afghanistan

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[SoCal Pubbie]

“From the late 1800’s to the mid 1900’s, Germans (Natives and German Jews) eclipsed every other country with inventions and innovations. “

You mean things like the submarine, dental floss, the cotton gin, the steam powered armored warship, the rotating turret, denim jeans, the zipper, vulcanized rubber, the sewing machine, fire sprinklers, the Ferris wheel, the flashlight, the revolver, the Gatling gun, the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, FM radio, the escalator, the incandescent light bulb, bubblegum, moving pictures, “talking” pictures, the subtractive color process for movies, the airplane, the autopilot, the helicopter, the liquid fuel rocket, the digital computer, the personal computer, the integrated circuit, the floppy disk, flexible roll film, tri-pack color film, the instant camera, the TV dinner, the polio vaccine, the handheld electronic calculator, artificial hearts, acrylic paint, the laser, airbags, the automatic transmission, the catalytic converter, television, bar codes, video tape, super glue, the atomic bomb, the resister, the microwave oven, Teflon, Velcro, Liquid Paper, and the video game?

[Cerb]

I think he meant these:

1850 Geissler (flourescent)tube by Heinrich Geissler

1861 telephone by Philipp Reis (jupp, really)

1867 dynamo generator by Werner von Siemens

1876 ammonia refrigerator by Karl von Linde

1877 four-stroke internal combustion engine by Nikolaus Otto

1884 Nipkow scanning disk (TV) Paul Nipkow

1885 automobile (Daimler-Benz) Karl Benz
1885 automobile (Daimler-Benz) Gottlieb Daimler

1885 diesel engine by Rudolf Diesel

1887 gramophone, microphone by Emil Berliner

1888 electromagnetic waves by Heinrich R. Hertz

1892 Arons tube, mercury vapor lamp by Martin Leo Arons

1895 X-rays (discovery), Wilhelm C. Röntgen

1896 glider by Otto Lilienthal

1897 cathode-ray tube by Karl Ferdinand Braun (No TVs without it...)

1899 Aspirin Aspirin®, aspirin by Felix Hoffmann (Bayer)

1900 flourescent lamp by Edmund Germer

1900 rigid airship by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin

1902 alternating current, lightning research by Charles Proteus Steinmetz

1906 Decaffeination process patented by Ludwig Roselius

1906 Wassermann-Test for syphilis by August Paul von Wassermann (not unimportant if u live that near to France ;-))

1920 athletic shoe by Adolf (Adi) Dassler

1928 first scientific pregnancy test by Selmar Aschheim

1931 electron microscope, by Ernst Ruska

1939 DDT by Paul H. Müller

1942 V2 rocket by Wernher von Braun

1942 spread spectrum technology by Hedy Lamarr

1945 Z1-Z4 computers - The Z3 was the first programmable computer - by Konrad Zuse

1954 rotary cylinder engine by Felix Wankel

1960 Redstone rocket (US) by Wernher von Braun

I’m not saying it’s more or better than all the other inventions made in that period, just saying Germans DID invent a few useful (and a few useless) things.

[AdamBomb]

No, I was thinking more along these lines; Famous German Inventions

1714 mercury thermometer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
1850 (flourescent) tube Heinrich Geissler
1861 telephone Philipp Reis
1867 generator Werner von Siemens
1876 ammonia refrigerator Karl von Linde
1877 four-stroke internal combustion engine Nikolaus August Otto
1884 scanning disk (TV) Paul Nipkow
1885 carburetor Karl Benz
1885 automobile (Daimler-Benz) Karl Benz
1885 diesel engine Rudolf Diesel
1887 gramophone, microphone Emil Berliner
1888 electromagnetic waves Heinrich R. Hertz
1892 Arons tube, mercury vapor lamp Martin Leo Arons
1895 X-rays, Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 Wilhelm C. Röntgen
1896 glider Otto Lilienthal
1897 cathode-ray tube (Nobel Prize 1909) Karl Ferdinand Braun
1899 Aspirin Felix Hoffmann (Bayer AG)
1900 flourescent lamp Edmund Germer
1900 rigid airship Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1902 Alternating Current, lightning research Charles Proteus Steinmetz
1906 Wassermann-Test for syphilis August Paul von Wassermann
1920 Sportschuh (adidas) athletic shoe Adolf (Adi) Dassler
1920 Nobelpreis Nobel Prize, thermochemistry Walther Hermann Nernst
1928 first scientific pregnancy test Selmar Aschheim
1931 electron microscope, Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 Ernst Ruska
1939 DDT DDT Paul H. Müller
1942 V2 rocket Wernher von Braun
1942 Wechselspektrum spread spectrum technology Hedy Lamarr
1945 Z1-Z4-Rechner Z1-Z4 computers - The Z3 was the first programmable computer Konrad Zuse
1954 rotary cylinder engine Felix Wankel
1960 Redstone-Rakete Redstone rocket (US) Wernher von Braun

Other GERMAN discoveries and inventions

Anatomy
Ampulla of Vater
Auerbach's plexus
Brodmann's areas
Canals of Hering
Crypts of Lieberkühn
Duct of Wirsung
Hesselbach's triangle
Hurthle cell
Islets of Langerhans
Kiesselbach's plexus
Krause's end-bulbs
Kupffer cells
Langhans giant cell
Langerhans cell
Leydig Cells
Lissauer's tract
Loop of Henle
Meibomian glands
Meissner's corpuscle
Meissner's plexus
Merkel cell
Müllerian ducts
Nissl bodies
Rathke's pouch
Riedel's lobe
Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
Spiral valves of Heister
Virchow's node
Waldeyer's throat
Wernicke's area
Wolffian duct
Zonule of Zinn

Chemistry
Aspirin
Bohrium
Darmstadtium
Eupione
Germanium
Glauber's salt
Hassium
Indium
Meitnerium
Paraffin
Phenol
Pittacal
Roentgenium

Computing
Chip card
modern Binary numeral system
MP3
Plankalkül
Z3 (computer)

Engineering
Diesel engine
Tachometer
Toepler pump
V-2
Wankel engine

Geology
Mohs scale of mineral hardness

Physics
Stark effect
Stark spectroscopy

Science
Bark scale
Bergius process
Bunsen burner
Diene synthesis
Electromagnetic radiation
Fahrenheit temperature scale
Gauss
Geiger counter
Geiger–Müller tube
Haber process
Hertz
Ohm
Petri dish
Planck units
Quantum mechanics
Röntgen
Siemens
Uncertainty principle
Weber
X-ray crystallography

Transportation
Automobile: invented by Karl Benz
Petroleum-powered motorcycle
Zeppelin

[AdamBomb]

Also, note that no country has more Nobel Prizes between 1900 (roughly when the Nobel Price began) and 1950, than Germany. This is the time period I was referring to: late 1800’s to 1950’s. after 1950, like I said, Germany was in shock and a divided country until the late 80’s / early 90’s. These were the true innovators.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I didn’t post that the Krauts didn’t do anything, now did I?

[Rummenigge]

no it’s apcs.

[Yorlik803]

Was talking about WW2 Marders.

[tluassa]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_combat_operations_in_Afghanistan_in_early_2009

http://www.angelfire.com/ok/panzerkampfwagon/pzsong.wav

^^

[MinorityRepublican]

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