German Inventions

- enter the names of the people, who are behind the listed inventions - especially Americans will have surprising moments
source: Wikipedia, DIE WELT (german newspaper), Handelsblatt (german newspaper)
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Invention
Inventor
the car
Carl Benz
the motorcycle
Gottlieb Daimler
the record player
Emil Berliner
the telephon
Philipp Reis
the glider (basis for the invention of the plane)
Otto Lilienthal
the Diesel engine
Rudolf Diesel
the tramway, the dynamo
Werner von Siemens
the refridgerator
Carl von Linde
the spark plug
Robert Bosch
the helicopter
Heinrich Focke
the computer
Konrad Zuse
the tooth paste
Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg
the discovery of nuclear fission
Otto Hahn, Liese Meitner
the gummy bear
Hans Riegel
the book press
Johannes Gutenberg
communism
Karl Marx
the light bulb
Heinrich Göbel
the thermos flask
Reinhold Burger
the MP3-file
Fraunhofer Institut
the smart card
Helmut Göttrup, Jürgen Dethloff
the mRNA-vaccine
Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci
the television
Manfred von Ardenne
Aspirin
Felix Hoffmann
discovery of X-rays
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
the periodic table
Julius Lothar Meyer
recycled paper
Justus Claproth
the wood pulp
Friedrich Gottlob Keller
the jeans
Levi Strauss
the bacteriology
Robert Koch
the coffee filter
Melitta Bentz
the tea bag
Adolf Rambold
the jet engine
Hans von Ohain
the football boot with studs
Adolf Dassler
the Combined oral contraceptive pill
Schering AG
the airbag
Mercedes-Benz AG
the bycicle
Baron Karl von Drais
the contact lenses
Adolf Eugen Fick
the tape recorder
Fritz Pfleumer
the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
the zeppelin
Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Founder of quantum physics
Max Planck
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