Poodles
Walking around in general public in only Speedos.
the use of towels as a territorial marker
They draped one over the back of Poland that time.
The automobile - pronounce it out loud, you’ll say it something like “ow-toe moh-beel”, i.e. in a German accent. Because Germans invented cars.
The assault rifle. They invented the concept, a handful of prototypes without the relevant doctrine (or for the 1890s one, even a detachable magazine) is irrelevant. Fight me, @bluewing.
I think the otto & diesel cycles are a better claim than the automobile, given there are like 100 different competing “first automobiles” to chose from
The Wankel engine is also a German invention. Though you could argue it’s an improved Otto cycle. Also the inventor is problematic to say the least.
Rage
Zyklon B?
The Berlin Wall, putting beach towels on recliners at the crack of dawn, sauerkraut, lederhosen, frankfurters, doner kebabs, hamburgers, donuts, cheese, iron gates, macerated cherries, aardvarks, the car, the bicycle, diesel, the moon, beer, lager, tamagotchi, the letter ‘a’, the number 25, serrated saw blades, cantilever bridges, ice cream, hand lotion, galoshes, the ipod, bilateral symmetry, the dawn, goths, the parachute, that sizzling noise meat makes when you fry it, hats, gloves, left socks, altitudes over 1,773 feet, postmodernism, and geese.
Sauerkraut is way older then Germany. People have been fermenting food a long time.
Especially when you consider Germany as a country is not really that old
The bicycle was, in its present from, was invented by a Brit.
You forgot ‘digging holes at beaches’ and The Sound Of Music. For the rest you nailed it.
Made my day!
The US Army. Given the history, you might expect it to based on either the French or British model, but no, they mostly took notes from Prussia.
You might also think it’s a very top-down authoritarian model for a military, but also no. That notion mostly comes from the legacy of Nazis. Both before and after, the German model of the Army is one of the least top-down authoritarian militaries.
The Haber process.
The Zweihänder and Aldi
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Those cool windows that Americans mistake for broken. I’m American and I want those windows… also a bidet.
What windows are you talking about? I tried searching for it.
Just need to combine those windows with built-in bug nets and we’re solid.
I have several at home
We invented the car
The car, the bicycle and Spaghetti icecream are the three most notable inventions from Mannheim Germany.
alas, the fr*nch invented the bicycle, germans merely invented the dandyhorse.
I’m from the US and never heard of spaghetti ice cream. I just googled it and it looks pretty delicious!
The no card payment sign.
Gutenberg printing press
The Chinese invented movable type printing presses ~500 years before Gutenberg. The process was refined in Korea after that and made its way west. Gutenberg likely adapted and popularized the existing processes into the western industrialization movement.
That’s why I specified the Gutenberg printing press, which is distinct from previous ones. I did not say they invented printing…
Touche
The Disk of Phaistos was printed with stamps (movable type) between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C. according to Yves Duhoux. Predating the Chinese by millennia.
Don’t say that too loud, you shatter the western / white superiority complex. :<
The rotary engine, also known as the Wankel engine
In fact, I’ve got a Wankel engine in my pants right now.
They also invented diesel fuel. Is the Wankel engine used anywhere now?
And the Diesel engine to use the fuel.
There’s some aviation and boating uses. Air pollution regulations have killed it for almost any automotive use.
Yes. New Mazdas use one as a range extender. It’s shitty.
Well. You have the pleasure of making a diese engine get to 20k rpm for no reason whatsoever :)
