Health insurance. Little known fact but it was actually invented not just before Google but before the entire internet.
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The hamburger, from the city of Hamburg.
And German chocolate cake from Deutschschokoladenkuchen
Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can't remember which) was named "German" and I think the original name was "German's chocolate cake"
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Hard to say. There are soo many Germans, who knows what they’ve googled!
Nowadays we invent things by describing the thing in Chatgibidy instead.
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The bicycle
The car
The computer (arguably, with the Zuse Z3)
Spoiler: I'm German.
Not the computer, but the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer (which would be a stage in computer hardware.)
It would be Babbage's machine as mechanical computers precede digital ones and only if we only allow nonspecific turing complete machines.
It was the first programmable, fully automatic, digital, turing-complete computer (although they only found out the last part after Zuse died).
So I'd argue, it was the first computer in the sense we understand and use the word today.
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everything that germany invented before google existed.
German ingenuity really fell off after they were done with the warmongering
Rigid (as in using a solid frame to keep shape instead of gas pressure) airships? Unless there's an earlier example of that than the ones Zeppelin made that I'm not thinking of
Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn't invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.
" I also like hiraeth. It's a Welsh concept of longing for home."
Weird way to spell "Heimweh"
Or homesickness. Fernweh, on the other hand, only exists (somewhat) in English in idioms, afaik: itchy feet
wanderlust...damn it.
That is not quite the same thing.
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They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal
Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.
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Name something the Germans didn't invent.
Noodles.
concentration camps
But they were the first to have a bakery attached.
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Tough one
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Everyone knows they invented the Haber-Bosch process. Pretty important shit.
Don't get me started on the Haber process. My students will tell you that I can and will go on for half an hour about how it prolonged WW1 and is one of the first commercial processes to make use of Le Chateliers principle.
Also, probably best not to spend too much time idolizing Fritz Haber, ~~as I'm pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler.~~ edit: I mixed up Haber with someone else, but his research was foundational in developing many German chemical weapons, including Zyklon B
Edit 2: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.
Really a fascinating bit of science history
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