5 MAJOR INVENTIONS you didn't know were GERMAN!

5 MAJOR INVENTIONS you didn't know were GERMAN! | Feli from Germany

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▸My home country Germany is generally known for a few different things - you may think of beer, Oktoberfest, soccer, and of course, German engineering. The list of German inventions is looooong! Some of them are pretty well known - such as the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg - others, however, not so much. That's why in this video, I’m telling you about 5 major inventions you didn’t know were German!
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0:00 German inventions are everywhere!
1:15 Invention 1
3:52 Invention 2
8:15 Invention 3
11:07 Invention 4
13:26 Invention 5
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@FelifromGermany 8 ай бұрын

Did you know that these inventions were German? I didn't even know about #3 until the movie came out this year! 😅 Make sure to watch Part 1 for some even more important inventions! ▸kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5uEqrqHlr68d3k.html

@wallstherb 8 ай бұрын

Hello Feli, hope you and Ben are okay. Yes! Mattel Barbie Creator Ruth Handler discovered Lilli Bild in Germany. Lilli was sexy, ha! 🙂😊😉

@michaelburggraf2822 8 ай бұрын

Hallo Feli, da ist dir mal ein schönes Video gelungen. Es enthält allerdings einen kleinen Fehler: die Eastman Kodak Company ist ein amerikanisches Unternehmen. Übrigens hat mir sehr gut gefallen, dass du im Zusammenhang mit Robert Oppenheimer auch seinen Lehrer, den Nobelpreisträger Prof. Max Born erwähnt hast.

@FelifromGermany 8 ай бұрын

@@michaelburggraf2822 Schau doch noch mal an die Stelle, da hab ich einen Kommentar dazu eingeblendet :) Die Kameras wurden tatsächlich in Deutschland entwickelt und hergestellt.

@michaelburggraf2822 8 ай бұрын

@@FelifromGermanyBitte um Entschuldigung - hab deine Anmerkung gefunden. Die war mir leider gar nicht aufgefallen.

@abboed.4076 8 ай бұрын

Ruth Handler had ancestry tracing back to Bavaria. 😎

@Likr666 8 ай бұрын

I think the german invention, that changed the world most, was Johannes Gutenberg inventing the press for books. It increased the speed of storing and spreading knowledge in a way, that es never happened before. Reading and learning the knowledge of generations was limited to only few privileged people. Science before books was extremely slow, because education and spreading science was nearly impossible,

@tillm2481 8 ай бұрын

you forgot mp3 …developed by Frauenhofer Institute… the whole internet, music industry…even youtube etc.. are based on this…the printing press is peanuts compared to this

@gbormann71 8 ай бұрын

@@tillm2481It's Fraunhofer. That might have been a Freudian lapsus (named after a Swiss) 🙂

@wncjan 8 ай бұрын

@@tillm2481I disagree. All the technologies and invemtilns leading up to this would not have been possible without the printing press. Or do you think instructions for early inventions would have been handwritten and then copied in thousands by monks?

@Likr666 8 ай бұрын

@@tillm2481 MP3 was important for spreading music in an Internet with low transfer rates. Now video is no problem. But printed books brought knowledge to the masses. It was limited for rich people and monks before. Science had hardly a chance with these limitations.

@FlorianBaumann 8 ай бұрын

We should better say "reinvented" because a similar press was already known in China and Korea about 500 years ago. The vast amount of Chinese letters made it not suitable for practical purpose. So it was soon forgotten.

@johnkc413 8 ай бұрын

I work in a hospital, and one of the greatest things we use in the hospital is a Central Venous Catheter. A German physician Werner Theodor Otto Forssman. He invented the “central line” in 1929 by performing the procedure on himself. He also shared a 1956 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine along with Andre Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards, for the Cardiac catheterization. Nowadays we just it a “Heart Cath” a procedure looking, under x-ray (fluoroscopy) inject a dye in order to visualize the coronary arteries. In radiology school, we did a lot of studies on Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. We saw the same photo of his wife’s hand.

@JulieEnglert-cj1hv 8 ай бұрын

I just thought I’d mention that physicist Max Born, who supervised Robert Oppenheimer while he studied for his PHD; was actually Olivia Newton-John’s grandfather.

@rosshart9514 8 ай бұрын

Uh Uh Uuuhu

@chancemiller9340 8 ай бұрын

Nice!

@malekmo63 8 ай бұрын

As well as Grandfather of Georgina Born musician who joined Henry Cow in the mid 70s a first cousin of Olivia Newton-John. She is also a British Academic Anthropologist and Musicologist OBE FBA. That actual band got together with Slapp Happy which featured a British American and German members. Dagmar Krause was the lead singer in Slapp Happy and Henry Cow later, she was later a member with former members of Henry Cow in Art Bears!!!

@cnelson574 8 ай бұрын

I’d like to draw attention to the work of Lise Meitner, who deserved to share the Nobel prize with Otto Hahn and Fritz Straussman for splitting uranium-I was disappointed she was left out of Oppenheimer, but I’m not surprised. She was a Jewish scientist from Austria, who studied and worked in Germany until she fled the rise of the Nazi party. When Hahn and Straussman, who were chemists, conducted their experiment where they split the uranium, the results weren’t what they were expecting so they turned to Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch, who were both theoretical physicists. With Frisch’s assistance, Meitner figured out what they had done and the mechanism by which it happened. Hahn’s paper didn’t even credit her and she didn’t share the Nobel. She was, however, nominated 48 times in the fields of chemistry and physics.

@jayvee1947 8 ай бұрын

Feli, the Fanta topic reminded me of a 1961 movie titled 1,2,3 about an American Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin.

@hglundahl 8 ай бұрын

As I am much more of a coffeeholic than an alcoholic, I have used _her_ invention a lot in my life: Melitta Bentz: Hausfrau und Mutter, entwickelte 1908 den Kaffeefilter. Did you know the two highest coffee consuming nations in the world are 1) Finns and 2) Swedes? And, both of us often use the Melitta-filter. It's an actual trademark of coffee filters in Sweden.

@omegamale7880 8 ай бұрын

You'd think coffee would be more popular in the coffee-producing countries but no.

@martinkasper197 8 ай бұрын

So you have Melitta Coffee, too in Sweden? And these Melitta Coffee Machines (like Saeco, Bosch or Braun)?

@praeceptor 8 ай бұрын

@@omegamale7880 My guess is the influence of long winter nights and the long cold day periods. You would prefer stimulants like coffein; chocolate is also relevant in the northern countries. And coffee gets along well with hearty dishes as with sweets.

@hglundahl 8 ай бұрын

Right@@praeceptor . We tend to make weak coffees we fill up into thermos bottles and drink all day long, further diluted with milk and sugar, sometimes alcohol, but even so, the overall use of ground coffee does get bigger than for a more Italian or French use of the coffee bean.

@goldfieldgary 8 ай бұрын

@@omegamale7880 Possibly because coffee is a luxury item in countries where it's grown. Many people there struggle to afford basic food items.

@jamesvandemark2086 8 ай бұрын

In my first year German class, Barbie was revealed to be German. The girls in the room became irrationally excited. Our clever teacher smiled! 😎

@kat13man 8 ай бұрын

lol

@achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 8 ай бұрын

This fact about Barbie shocked me very much .. or to put it in proper language "Bild : reason for female health problems world wide ? "

@Damien_Clarke 8 ай бұрын

There's a tie between Aspirin and Grigori Rasputin, which actually lead to Rasputin's fame and glory within the Russian Czar's (and Czarina's) favor. The child-prince Alexei suffered from hemophilia and was being treated by the Russian doctors with Aspirin, which was a very popular treatment at the time. As mentioned, Aspirin was a blood thinner and was not the medication that should have been prescribed Alexei's condition. It was actually making him worse. In a desperation, the Czarina reached out to Rasputin and agreed to gave him full control over Alexei's diagnosis. In a dramatic flare, Rasputin shunned the doctors and discontinued the use of Aspirin. This resulted in Alexei getting better, which served to demonstrated the 'powers of the 'holy man.' The rest is history...

@janfg1578 8 ай бұрын

The first paper handkerchiefs where also invented in Germany in the 20s, the original brand "Tempo" still exists today. Like every German i grew up blowing my nose with them :D

@fonkbadonk5370 8 ай бұрын

"Push the tempo" - A slim, fat boy.

@ReisenderRaumplaner 8 ай бұрын

Yes we therefore even say "tempo" for handkerchief, what comes from the company name

@thai-tanic7407 8 ай бұрын

Totally agree with you but all these inventions are quite modern. In my opinion the most important invention from Germany which had a significant impact on world history was the letterpress printing invented by Guttenberg in 1450. Only with his invention it was possible to multiply books or other text documents very easy and fast in a very high number

@filippo5157 8 ай бұрын

True, but I think that the point of this video was to show inventions that are not known to many people, while the Guttenberg press invention is taught in history class at school (at least here in Europe) so everybody should already know it.

@gbormann71 8 ай бұрын

Making possible commercial printing in the 16th century by Plantin in Antwerp. (Plantin was a French family from Lille that moved to Antwerp during it's Golden Age.)

@koenigamd 8 ай бұрын

In the western world, to be precise

@duke6321 8 ай бұрын

@@filippo5157But it was Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the printing press with movable Letters, not "zu Guttenberg", the former Minister of Defence... 😅

@filippo5157 8 ай бұрын

@@duke6321ahah I copied from the main message and propagate the spread of disinformation

@christophermancey3818 8 ай бұрын

I’m from the UK and love these videos, I’ve grown up loving a lot of American culture and as an adult find German culture amazing. I’ve just started to learn German off the back of these videos, using Kleo.

@Habakuk_ 8 ай бұрын

Kleo what is that ?

@ChronicPlays 8 ай бұрын

Also watching from the UK!

@ChronicPlays 8 ай бұрын

@@Habakuk_ Kleo is a language learning app.

@chrispaschke240 8 ай бұрын

Also invented in Germany: letterpress, tram or streetcar, scanner, zeppelin, screw anchor, airbag, birth-control-pill, the television, toothpaste, record player, automobile….the list goes on….

@benpurcell4935 3 ай бұрын

Automobiles are a hotly debated thing because it depends on a lot of different variables. As do many of the things on your list.

@hglundahl 8 ай бұрын

This guy deserves more fame: Karl Drais: Forstlehrer und bedeutender Erfinder in der Goethezeit, u. a. Fahrrad und Schreibmaschine, 1821

@Theo_T. 8 ай бұрын

Da sind noch mehrere Deutsche Erfindungen zu nennen, insb. historische: -Emil Berliner, Grammophon -Johannes Gutenberg, Buchdruck -Karl von Drais, Fahrrad -Otto Lilienthal, Fluggerät -Robert Koch -Otto von Guerecke, Unterdruck, Nürnberger Kugeln -Ferdinat Graf von Zeppelin -Carl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel, Nicolaus Otto -Robert Bosch, Zündkerze usw. -Werner von Siemens, Dynamo und Straßenbahn -Conrad Zuse, Computer -Melitta Bentz, Kaffeefilter -Marga Faulstich, optische Gläser -Katharina Paulus , Fallschirmpaket -Philipp Reis, Telefon -Heinrich Göbel , Glühbirne -Einstein, Planck, Braun, Hertz, Rönten u.v.a.m.

@aikidragonpiper71 8 ай бұрын

Johannes Jacob Beam immigrated from Germany to Kentucky in 1752. He and his descendants started the famous American Bourbon brand Jim Beam. It’s argued who created Bourbon first but he was one of the first. Their name in the 18th century was originally Bohm and they changed their surname to Beam.

@nicholasharvey1232 8 ай бұрын

I always believed that Jim Beam was a born-and-bred American... learn something new every day.

@lisamirako1073 8 ай бұрын

Yes, his German surname was Böhm.

@aikidragonpiper71 5 ай бұрын

@@nicholasharvey1232 Yes as a company American and founded in America , but started by an German born immigrant.

@coupdeforce 8 ай бұрын

Have you ever seen the ShamWow ad with Vince Offer? One of the best lines is "you know the Germans always make good stuff".

@andieslandies 8 ай бұрын

Others among the many that occur to me include: the movable-type printing press, the motor car, X-radiography, the Diesel engine, and the Geiger counter.

@andieslandies 8 ай бұрын

My sincere apologies @FelifromGermany , I should have watched your earlier video before commenting!

@user-yt6ex9ww9t 8 ай бұрын

Feli is an incredible spokesperson. So much so that i took up studying German about six months ago. I had no idea all the crazy grammar rules i was walking into lol. But it is great for brain health i guess 😂

@waynehampson9569 8 ай бұрын

Yeah. The word order in sentences and separable verbs take a little getting used. I am learning German too.

@kat13man 8 ай бұрын

It's a language for mathematicians but much better than English. I remember disecting sentences in English class using German grammar rules and my English teacher, who was from Germany, got very upset with me but German is the best language for me.

@thomfiel 8 ай бұрын

Germany also invented the V-2 rocket--direct forerunner of all modern ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles.

@bobross9332 8 ай бұрын

Werner Von Braun was brought over after WWII during " operation paperclip" ( along with hundreds of nazi scientists) and he headed NASA

@ferengiprofiteer9145 8 ай бұрын

V-2 wasn't the invention. The liquid fueled rocket was invented by an American, Robert Goddard. The germans just made war with it.

@raymondmeers 8 ай бұрын

FYI, a German, Pfluemer, invented the 1st magnetic tape. It was actually magnetic powder on paper but then was transformed in the recording tape that replaced recording on wax cylinders

@ivoivanov7407 8 ай бұрын

Magnetophons and reels made by I. G. Farben, brought to US after WWII that revolutionized music industry.

@Eysenbeiss 8 ай бұрын

Same goes for videorecordes and -tapes, LPs and mostly everything in that field comes from germany or germans have been involved

@alvagoldbook2 8 ай бұрын

I don’t know who invented it, but one of my hobbies is recording my own music. In recording studios very expensive and precise microphones are used, and these type of microphones are called condensers. The most elegant and renowned microphones ever made were made in Germany. The Neumann U47 and the AKG 414. I would say that these two companies made the most prestigious and important microphones in history. They were used to make the most important recordings of all time, from Bing Crosby to Elvis Presley.

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions 8 ай бұрын

As an American with a longtime interest in Germany, I found this quite informative! I knew about Aspirin and Fanta being a German invention, as well as the German (both Germans citizens, such as Otto Hahn, and German-Americans, like Oppenheimer) role in the development of nuclear fission. However, I didn't know the Barbie doll originated with _Bild-Lilli,_ or that Johann Zann envisioned the camera as early as 1685! I kind of find it fitting that the two major films that were released in July 2023, _Barbie_ and _Oppenheimer,_ are _both_ about inventions by Germans... and that the camera, used for both, was arguably a _third_ invention from Germany! Also, as a filmmaker (my KZfaq channel has plenty of videos as well), I find it interesting, overall, that Herr Zann, that visionary man, envisioned the device that we would use _over_ _a_ _century_ before it can be built. Thanks for making this!

@joseph.irvin.photography 8 ай бұрын

Besides Leitz/Leica's invention of the 35mm camera, you also have lens company Carl Zeiss which 150-something years ago started inventing a lot of lens designs that are still today, like the Tessar, Planar, Sonnar, etc. Lots of brilliant folks in Germany inventing useful things!

@southcoastinventors6583 8 ай бұрын

And they invent even more thing when they move to the US

@prabhatsourya3883 8 ай бұрын

I think that's the German way of life, on a rainy day or a holiday, they just go to their rooms and invent stuff.

@Philmaster07 8 ай бұрын

@@southcoastinventors6583 your point being?

@jamesvandemark2086 8 ай бұрын

Also Zeiss/Jena cameras and optics!

@joseph.irvin.photography 8 ай бұрын

@@jamesvandemark2086 and Schneider and Rodenstock

@scottinphoenix739 8 ай бұрын

Thomas Sowell noted in a couple of his books on the German speaking peoples (some prior to the founding of modern Germany) influence throughout Europe and in early America. They have been in the forefront of commerce, science, and academia for hundreds of years at least. Thanks for another video, I learn something new in every one.

@JblackSupportTeam 8 ай бұрын

Maybe the automobile was more important than Fanta. Carl Benz (like in Mercedes-Benz or Daimler-Benz). And every type of combustion engine to go with it, petrol engine (Nicolaus Otto), Diesel engine (Rudolf Diesel), Wankel engine (Felix Wankel).

@Transterra55 8 ай бұрын

When it comes to cameras, in particular 35 mm, Germany truly changed the game. Then, as now, German optics are superior, especially lens makers like Zeiss. Leica and Rolleiflex are top-notch cameras, and Germans pioneered the 35 mm camera movement in the 20th century

@gerryroush8391 8 ай бұрын

I have lived in New Mexico 13 years now, and still dont speak Spanish better than you do I make it a habit to say Gesundheit when they sneeze😂

@jeffhampton2767 8 ай бұрын

Germany is very famous for creating beautiful porcelain objects back in the Seventeen and eighteen hundreds and before that, they are very famous for their porcelain dolls. As an antique dealer I really appreciate the beautiful antiques and art we have from Germany, also I love German food. Even though I am American my ancestry comes from Europe, German, polish, Irish, British, Welsh, Ukraine, Sweden. Yes I am a mixed European American.

@Hand-in-Shot_Productions 8 ай бұрын

I didn't know about the porcelain dolls, but I find that detail quite interesting! Also, considering how my ancestry goes back to many of the same places as yours (I have a video about my AncestryDNA test at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/haqDgLWpr768h4E.html, but in short, I am also an American with ancestors from Britain, Ireland, Sweden, and possibly Ukraine; furthermore, though my video didn't mention it, I also have ancestry from Austria), I think "mixed European American" describes us both well. Thanks for the comment!

@RustyDust101 8 ай бұрын

The most underrated invention was the Haber-Bosch reaction. Like so many chemical reactions it wouldn't have been possible without the giants before them, two Norwegian scientists. The goal was to fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, originally for artificial fertilizer. While the Norwegians succeeded quite a lot earlier their reaction required very high voltages as well as a lot of electricity/ power to achieve that, while being less efficient as well. The Haber-Bosch reaction allows us to feed the roughly 8 billion people we have on this planet today efficiently and at a fairly low cost. Without artificial fertilizers the resource of bird guano wouldn't have lasted much longer than the end of the 1910's. Unfortunately ammonia is also required for high explosives, which was one of the reasons why Haber was reviled after WW1. His second invention was mustard gas during WW1. Yes, that was a terrible thing, and it resulted in horrible deaths for all afflicted. However, based upon Haber's research another breakthrough was able to give us a cure for a lung disease. Unfortunately I don't recall which one it was, but it came directly from his research into mustard gas. So while he helped kill hundreds of thousands, he also helped save millions, maybe even billions. Thus Haber was a very conflicted person and abusing his inventions made him a pariah among many scientists.

@skipperson4077 8 ай бұрын

beat me to it! and well stated. Thank You.

@antonstoeckl3689 8 ай бұрын

As a retired German grain farmer in Canada i agree. In my farming time, I used several 1000 of tones of 46 - 0 - 0 Nitrogen. Without N fertilizer, farming would be unthinkable and Billions of people would never been able to exist.

@jasonwiley798 8 ай бұрын

Believe a German, diesel invented the internal combustion engine.

@mabee1961 8 ай бұрын

Anyone interested in Fritz Haber should also read the Wikipedia content on Clara Immerwahr.

@antonstoeckl3689 8 ай бұрын

@@jasonwiley798 YES it was Rudolf Diesel in Aaugsburg. In 2 weeks I will be in Augsburg and my sister lives two blocks away from the MAN factory = Motorenwerke Augsburg Nuernberg in which the invention did take place.

@JonathanReynolds1 8 ай бұрын

Feli, I thought you were going to mention Wernher von Braun, the German Physicist, who helped start the American Space Program! 🇺🇸🌎🚀

@anthonyfuqua6988 8 ай бұрын

Not a physicist but close.

@rackets001 8 ай бұрын

He had a sordid past with using slave labor at Auschwitz to build V2 rockets. The US only kept him alive after the war to utilize his experience in rocketry. Hitler wanted him dead so as to keep his knowledge a secret.

@jonwesick2844 8 ай бұрын

Don't forget the Haber process for synthesizing ammonia.

@IanKemp1960 8 ай бұрын

Just sayin, as a PhD qualified physicist, I was very impressed with your explanation of nuclear fission. You should be doing more than selling online courses perhaps 😀

@jeromemckenna7102 8 ай бұрын

Germans invented many of lens types used today in photography. Many of the original designs in the late 19th century, such as the Zeiss Planar, only became practical once lens coatings were developed.

@sabinedalianis2629 8 ай бұрын

Kindergarten Pädagogik, Petstalozzi, Das Telefon - Johann Philipp Reis (1859) ... Das Periodensystem - Lothar Meyer (1864) ... Der Dynamo und die Straßenbahn - Werner von Siemens (1866) ... Die Bakteriologie - Robert Koch (1870) ... Das erste Motorrad und das erste Automobil - Gottlieb Daimler und Carl Benz (1885)

@clinthowe7629 8 ай бұрын

Really cool, Germany is responsible for so many great things, sadly it gets over shadowed by just a dozen years between 1933 and 1945, but it so much richer a history, those of us who are more well red know this. Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Goeth, Freud, Kant, Luther, Humbolt, I haven’t even scratched the surface of famous Germans, your country is so much older than mine.

@noncounterproductive4596 8 ай бұрын

Damage to the German reputation isn't just a matter of 1933-1945. This is really a matter of propaganda. There was the outrageous anti-German propaganda of the First World War, as exposed in British politician Arthur Ponsonby's book Falsehood in War Time (1928). Educated people all over the world became aware that accusations like tossing babies onto bayonets had been lies. Above all, they became aware (thanks mainly to Smith College historian, Professor Harry Elmer Barnes) that Germany had not caused the First World War, as the Treaty of Versailles presupposed. All of that old propaganda from the First World War was nonetheless recycled in the Second, and people who hadn't read Arthur Ponsonby or Harry Elmer Barnes believed it. You can see this in the US Army's war-propaganda film The Nazis Strike, which shows the faces of Bismarck, Wilhelm II, and Adolf Hitler together -- as if Adolf Hitler were simply the latest in a long line of awful Germans. The narrator declared: "The symbols and the leaders change, but Germany's maniacal urge to impose its will on others continues from generation to generation." Did you catch that? The US Army was portraying Bismarck and Hitler as essentially the same. The official war-propaganda of the USA was generally not about Germans as Jew-gassers but about Germans as wannabe world-conquerors. I hope that you see that this propaganda was insane. Nonetheless many people believed it, and it continued to be shown for many decades after the war. It was all very confused, too, because as new propaganda was introduced the old propaganda never went away. The Germans got some relief during the Cold War, from 1947 to 1991. During this period, the new propaganda-line was that only Hitler and the Nazis were the trouble. If Germans in general were at fault, it was only for being manipulable, or obedient. This was also the message of German cinema. During the Cold War you could see some sympathetic portrayals of ordinary Germans during the Second World War. An interesting one to me is Kelly's Heroes (1970), where some American GIs (some of them clearly portrayed as Jews) and an SS Tiger tank commander make a deal to do a gold-heist together. So, there was a long period when the anti-Germanism was not as intense as it has recently become, and the anti-Germanism that existed was mostly based on different premises. This all started to change in the 1970s, especially with the airing of NBC's Holocaust miniseries in 1978, and even more with Schindler's List in 1993. It is not really any events of 1933-1945 but productions of Hollywood that have damaged the German reputation.

@duke6321 8 ай бұрын

The biggest problem is that it was mainly the USA that saw Germany after the 2nd World War as the birthplace of evil. In 99% of the cases in the cinema, there is only the depiction of the blonde, tall, beer-drinking Nazi guy barking German words into the environment in a commanding tone. Hollywood has played a major role in the fact that Germany is still known today as the land of the Nazis. A more differentiated view of the world has only been subtly built up in the recent past. But the Nazi cliché is and remains seemingly overpowering. German history is probably still reduced to these 12 years in American schools, I can't explain it any other way.

@bobross9332 8 ай бұрын

Germany was forced into WWII by the worst president in US history, The democrat racist Woodrow Wilson. Germany was crushed for adhering to a treaty... A TREATY prior to WW1. Something that when the US does it we are lauded as " wonderful" ... The Germans had a huge problem with communism ( ever hear of antifa? When it's roots are in German Communism the " “Antifaschistische Aktion" were a German communist party along with the Roter Frontkampferbund... The 3rd reich was simply attempting to clean up the mess the US made and the Weimar republic extended. Look up the names of those that started communism in Germany and spread it to the Soviet Union.... it will open your eyes.

@TacoTeaser 8 ай бұрын

I love driving my Volkswagen. I've owned five now and find it to be a wonderful car. Thank you Germany!

@dkim2011 8 ай бұрын

Not-so-fun fact#1: Arthur Eichengrun was the true inventor of aspirin, not Hoffman. (See: "Nazis robbed Jew of credit for aspirin", The Independent, 3 Sept 1999; NIH, "The discovery of aspirin: a reappraisal", 23 Dec 2000). Eichengrun survived internment in a concentration camp but died before he could successfully prosecute his legal claim. Not-so-fun fact #2 It wasn't Otto Hahn who recognized the significance of the nuclear fission research upon which he collaborated, but rather his German-Jewish colleague Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch. This subsequently caught the attention of the Jewish-Hungarian Leo Szilard. Even Heisenberg was far from understanding how to make an atom bomb as late as the end of the war. Oppenheimer was brilliant to be sure, but his role was more one of facilitator and mediator. His teacher, Max Born, was also Jewish, btw. As for Barbie, I'd say that Handler *stole* her "fair and square." 😄

@Slickthirtysix 8 ай бұрын

Johannes Gutenberg - Printing press with movable type

@J3scribe 8 ай бұрын

I love your history lessons. They are so upbeat and joyful, as learning should be. I don't know a better compliment! Keep being you, FelI!

@nikolausnowak9382 8 ай бұрын

My favorite technologies that few people know were originally invented in Germany (although now widely obsolete) were the analog telephone and the fax machine.

@fonkbadonk5370 8 ай бұрын

Wait what! The fax machine is still amongst the top of tech in today's Germany! Nothing obsolete in this! (Seriously. It's still widely used here, although it has no business at all to be. We're Neanderthals within the digital realm nowadays.)

@alicemilne1444 8 ай бұрын

Sorry, but the first fax machine was patented in 1843 by a Scotsman, Alexander Bain.

@raimohoft1236 8 ай бұрын

@@alicemilne1444patenting is not inventing! It was often exactly this way... germans invented, anglo-saxon-mericans patented or stole an already existing patent.

@MichaEl-rh1kv 8 ай бұрын

@@alicemilne1444 As raimohoft1236 said, patenting is not inventing. Actually Germany hat no regular patent office at the time, German inventors had to go to London to get their inventions patented. In 1864 the German chambers of commerce campaigned _against_ patents and argued that patents harm the common welfare, impede free competition and are contradictory to a free market economy, e.g. by favoring rich investors over active inventors. In the 1870s however industrialist and inventor Werner von Siemens started to campaign for a German patent law, which was then adopted in 1877 (and incorporated far higher requirements for an invention to be patentable than in the Anglo-American world).

@alicemilne1444 8 ай бұрын

@@raimohoft1236 So which German invented the fax machine and when? There are many, many great inventions by Germans, but you can't claim everything.

@pendragon2012 8 ай бұрын

I was tutoring a kid in vocabulary the other day and her category was "German words". Should have seen the color drain out of her face when I told her. She wailed, "But I don't speak German", lol. Can't help it--Germany's just that awesome. Great video as always, Feli! Hope you and Ben are doing well. :-)

@fonkbadonk5370 8 ай бұрын

I hope those presumably rosy cheeks returned when she realized that a good portion of her daily vocabulary is so easily related to German words!

@pendragon2012 8 ай бұрын

@@fonkbadonk5370 Oh yes, it was all words like Kindergarten, angst, doppelganger, kaput...

@Qumafi 8 ай бұрын

Bandonion, famos for Tango Argentino, was invented by Heinrich Band. What about the first computer by Konrad Zuse? He did not invent every concept from scratch but build the first exemplar. I found Hermann Jacobi as the first to manufactur a working electro motor, based on several older studies by others. Christmas angels (figures) seem to be German based, too. Especially tinsel angel, Lichterengel and the so called "Jahresendflügelpuppen"

@robertn2 8 ай бұрын

A chemist student from Germany worked in a pharmacy as a Soda Jerk (someone who serve drinks) he experimented with blending flavors together. His employer had love for a Civil War surgeon daughter, but the drink was called " The Waco" first as to where it was originated. Later the name was change to the name of the Civil War surgeon " Dr. Pepper." The 10, 2 and 4 came from Dr. Pepper as recommend time of day to drink the beverage: 10 in the morning, 2 and 4 in the afternoon. The myth about Dr. Pepper that it contains prune juice. The drink does not have prune juice in it, and it never did. My research came when I was taking an online business class. But it was a young man from Germany that created the drink.

@josephstalin9139 8 ай бұрын

Germans invented THE FIRST EVER semi-automatic assault rifle in history. The Sturmgewehr 44 (StG. 44) is considered the first assault rifle firearm in the world, permanently revolutionizing warfare for generations to come both in the east (AK 47) and west (M16/AR 15) for better or worse.

@benpurcell4935 3 ай бұрын

The STG-44 introduced the intermediate cartridge to the world. The AK is more similar internally to a M1 Garand than the STG-44. One of the first semiautomatic battle rifles was the M1 Garand.

@thehoneybadger8089 8 ай бұрын

Spezi, Gummibären, Inverted-V and Boxer engines, "Rimless" firearm cartridges, Bolistol, Bunsen burner, Airbags, Printing press with moveable type, Accordion, Cardchip, Bicycle, and the food list is endless!

@gtmerkley 8 ай бұрын

I think the Volkswagen Beetle deserves more attention

@williamirelan9332 8 ай бұрын

The automobile and the diesel engine. They both have had world impact. Moveable type mass produced from lead alloy has had the biggest influence on education and information ,with the mechanical press.

@tedgemberling2359 8 ай бұрын

So interesting about aspirin. I remember a historian telling me something interesting. There is a famous speech attributed to Chief Seattle which is supposed to have shown Native Americans had more sensitivity to nature than Europeans. But apparently there is doubt that Chief Seattle really said all the things attributed to him. According to this historian, the only thing we can be sure he said was "if you give us aspirin, we will give you the land."

@ulrichhaepp2657 8 ай бұрын

The thing is, Otto Hahn at first did not quite understand the result and out coming of his experiment. So he decided to discuss that per postal letters with his former female college Lise Meitner, who had already flewn from the Nazis to the neutral state of Sweden. She was the Person, who understood and told him, that he did the first fission of the core of an atom, which was believed to be impossible, like he did himself, and therefore could not understand, what he had achieved.

@noncounterproductive4596 8 ай бұрын

Obviously Wernher von Braun's team at Peenemünde invented the guided rocket, which could be used either to carry explosives to the port of Antwerp or, as Braun preferred, men into outer space. The Heinkel He 178 was the first jet airplane, developed in August 1939.

@Eysenbeiss 8 ай бұрын

Even the design of stealth planes go back to a german invention, made almost completly out of wood and being the first, don't know the english term right now, Nurflügler ...

@noncounterproductive4596 8 ай бұрын

@@Eysenbeiss The Horten Ho 229 Flying Wing. It had successful testflights but the war ended before it could be used.

@davidborrowdale8196 8 ай бұрын

"Once the rockets are up,who cares where they come down. Thats not my department",says Wernher von Braun. Tom Lehrer.

@noncounterproductive4596 8 ай бұрын

@@davidborrowdale8196 Yes, that is a very hostile song. Tom Lehrer and certain other Jews hated the prominence that these German immigrants achieved in the USA. It is evident also in Stanley Kubric's Dr. Strangelove, which is essentially a complaint about Wernher von Braun's association with JFK. That hostility never went away. In 1979 the main designer of the Saturn V rocket, Arthur Rudolph, was hounded out of the USA based on false accusations from the Second World War. If you ever tour Kennedy Space Center you will find that the German contribution to the space program gets very short shrift, even though their competence was what enabled the lunar landing to happen within just a few years after Kennedy proposed it.

@benpurcell4935 3 ай бұрын

@@EysenbeissThe Germans took inspiration from the British and namely the de Havilland Mosquito. The Mosquito was a twin engine almost completely wood design.

@jlpack62 8 ай бұрын

Feli is the best German invention!

@wilkinsdedwylder1624 7 ай бұрын

You should also be exceptionally proud of that most important of inventions, the Eierschallensollbruchstellenverursacher, which is also notable for its succinct name.

@Jack-cx6xv 8 ай бұрын

You have so much enthusiasm. It's a real pleasure to watch you.

@DucoSminia 8 ай бұрын

Did you know that nordico accordion music from Mexico originates from German immigrants to Texas? Many of them fled to Mexico after the Mexican war, and took their music and accordions with them.

@knipserey 8 ай бұрын

if you're planning a third video, here are just some more german engineers and their inventions: Konrad Zuse - inventor of the first computer Heinrich Focke - inventor of the helicopter (btw: he came from Bremen, where I actual live for 7 years) Carl Zeiss, Ernst Abbe, Otto Schott - the inventors of the modern microscope (there where microscopes before - but until then no one was able to calculate the lenses etc. - it was more trial and error and no proper reproducable way to build them) (btw: they all came from Jena, where I've studied, worked and lived for many years) Also the first Projecting Planetarium came from the Carl Zeiss Company - it was invented by Walther Bauersfeld (btw: the restaurant inside the Planetarium Jena also was named after that engineer - "Bauersfeld"... I've never thaught about this until my research for this comment here...) Ferdinand Braun - he invented the "Braun Tube" ("braunsche Röhre") also known as cathode-ray-tube (CRT) that was invented e.g. for the osciloscope - an electronic messurement device. He never thaught that it also could be used for television... but another german engineer - Manfred Baron von Ardenne - put this CRT into his first TV-device. And so all kids raised up from maybe the 1940s or 50s until the 1990's or early 2000s should know the good old CRT from TV-Devices and later also from computer-monitors...

@stefanhennig 6 ай бұрын

Manfred von Ardenne deserves a whole episode for himself. Bordering between genius and fraud. A most fascinating character. But forgotten in today's Germany as he lived and worked in eastern Germany.

@christinesteckel3390 8 ай бұрын

Hi Feli! 👋 I just discovered your channel in the last week and am watching the videos. I enjoy them very much. I took German in high school and college and it's been fun to remember various words and phrases. Tschüß!

@FelifromGermany 8 ай бұрын

So glad you like my videos! :)

@JerryJerow 8 ай бұрын

This teacher really enjoyed this lesson.

@pdyt2009 7 ай бұрын

I will add the moveable type printing press (Gutenberg), and X-Rays (Röntgen). Both have made a significant impact on the world.

@rogerone7387 8 ай бұрын

Very good Feli, your Spanish was very good. Keep up the good work. We are learning German and you who know, are doing good in Spanish. Español

@mangagnome9764 8 ай бұрын

I've been bingeing your videos ever since I discovered your channel. Now I'm going to begin my journey of learning German. So excited

@earlewhitcher970 8 ай бұрын

Not all of these items were completely unknown to me, with the exception of the Barbie doll, and aspirin. Aspirin was not a big surprise but the Barbie doll knocked me out of my seat. Barbie looks so much like Lilli that I am somewhat amazed that there wasn't some sort of legal issues that came out of the similarities. Germans have always been at the forefront of technology and science so fission and cameras were not surprising and I've long known of the Fanta connection to Germany, but I did enjoy the deeper explanation of it's origin and history. Great video, Feli, thanks again for all you do.

@tanjabastigkeit2078 8 ай бұрын

A week ago I met a mother with her daughter (mid 50 and mid 20 of age) from Texas on the central station in Dortmund. We had a really nice conversation. The daughter studies german and love Germany. Both are making a long holiday (couple of months) in Germany. They visited a lot of cities from north to south, West to East. I recommended them your channel, because of the facts and fun here.

@Al69BfR 8 ай бұрын

Interesting that Niépce and Zahn on their respective images look like they were actually closely related. 😉

@pigoff123 6 ай бұрын

I lived in Hanau from 72 to 96. Used to go back every year to see my mom until she moved to Stuttgart in 2012.

@HaleyMary 8 ай бұрын

I love how I learn how to pronounce the brand names from listening to these videos. Most of my friends and my mom has called Bayer Bear, not bya.

@jeffg.8964 8 ай бұрын

Great video, but I did know of all those inventions. German optics, cameras (e.g. Leica, Zeiss, etc.) and precision instruments are legendary, the best in quality to this day.

@bonitahogue5938 8 ай бұрын

I'm greatful that Germans invented Feli

@Slickthirtysix 8 ай бұрын

Theory of Relativity (Albert Einstein), thermos flask (Reinhold Burger), toothpaste (Ottomar von Mayenburg), Zeppelins

@michaelburggraf2822 8 ай бұрын

Insulating containers have been invented by James Dewar and, shortly afterwards, by Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold. Burger has invented an improved version of an insulating flask and has introduced the brand name "Thermos".

@merrymata2547 8 ай бұрын

I think Germany has always been at the forefront of innovation and invention, in spite of American pride.

@powerzwerg5566 8 ай бұрын

Barbie - THE American icon being a commercialized Lillie -THAT one was new to me!!! And "BILD" creating a doll in the first place btw

@Rescue162 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video, it was wonderful. Go Germany! You are a wonderful ambassador to your home country.

@Hainero2001 8 ай бұрын

Germans also make the absolute best guns, too. My favorites being Glock (Austrian technically) and Sig Sauer. My wife is Dominican. I live in the Dominican Republic for 2 years. The best way to learn Spanish is immersion and music.

@skipperson4077 8 ай бұрын

Sig Sauer is technically Swiss from Swiss Industrial Company - Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG) but is now headquartered in Germany, but might say Germanic for sure There were many German gun innovations, the Mauser 98 was the basis of many countries infantry rifle and the MG-42, still around in modified form, come to mind.

@Hainero2001 8 ай бұрын

@skipperson4077 , yeah, I tend to lump all german speaking countries and their people under "German". Germanic seems too broad since it would include Scandinavians and technically the English too. Yeah, German engineers are top notch.

@JonathanMoosey 5 ай бұрын

James Bond’s gun is also German. In the books and movies, he uses a Walther pistol, usually a PPK. Walther is a well known German firearm manufacturer. The Walther is not only know for being the gun of choice for James Bond but also the gun that Adolf Hitler used to kill himself with.

@theb.i.t.1128 8 ай бұрын

It is a pleasure to know some facts about German inventions as a German learner. Thanks a lot, and keep it going ❤

@LarryHatch 8 ай бұрын

Siemens, a German company, also had the first patent on the camera phone and organizing it's images on the device.

@colinbisasky1134 8 ай бұрын

Feli, another great video by you. I have watched a bunch of them, and it's like you know everything about everything! I usually have no idea of these things before watching your videos. Danke!

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 8 ай бұрын

A recent German Invention is known as Soft'n'safe Plasticizer which is Phthalate free made from Corn Oil, Sunflower oil and Olive Oil which is mixed then hydrogenated then mixed with a catalyst to produce Soft'n'Safe.

@arnodobler1096 8 ай бұрын

Fanta Exotic is yummie Have you tried it, @Feli from Germany?

@danperlmutter 8 ай бұрын

You do such a great job on these type of videos.

@jasonarnold6273 8 ай бұрын

This was a great video. Thanks for sharing 🤙

@cfzippo 8 ай бұрын

Ferdinand Porsche invented the first Hybrid car, who’s engine powered a generator that drove the car, The Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus in 1900

@dpsonnenberg4537 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. I can't wait until the next show.

@user-David-Alan 8 ай бұрын

That was fascinating. Thank you for sharing. Enjoy life and stay well.

@emilybrookharrison7562 8 ай бұрын

Interesting and well done as always!!!TY

@knoester7714 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this information with us.

@ernestconnell8087 8 ай бұрын

Very bubbly, must be close to October Fest

@jgha90 8 ай бұрын

I must say - tu pronunciación en español es muy buena - you have a pretty good Spanish pronunciation. Love the video, really interesting. Greetings from Perú. 🇵🇪

@bob_._. 8 ай бұрын

The "Kodak company" was/is not German; it was founded by George Eastman in Rochester, NY. The first roll film camera, the Kodak was introduced in 1888 and the company was incorporated in 1892 as Eastman Kodak. Kodak's "Retina" line of cameras were built in Germany from 1934 - 1969 by Stuttgart-Wangen. BTW, Eastman devised the name Kodak because it would be pronounced the same in every language that uses the Roman alphabet.

@UnoriginalElephant 8 ай бұрын

Ya, when she said that I did a double take 😂

@ladycreepshow 8 ай бұрын

I was coming here to say the same thing. I love her videos and I love her facts but yeah Kodak is not German. I even tried to find if George Eastman was German in lineage but didn't find any information about where his family was from ( I will also admit that I didn't research too hard. That being said I'm currently sitting outside where I can see the Kodak Towers in Rochester haha) Rochester did have a lot of German immigrants though and a lot of them helped build Kodak as well as the city. My grandfather and family included in that when they immigrated over.

@MichaEl-rh1kv 8 ай бұрын

Kodak was not German - but Kodak posed in the 1930s in Germany offensively as being "German" and sold its cameras as "deutsch" (German), adopting Nazi propaganda (and even switching its German factories to armaments production for the German army in 1940, using forced labour). In 1931/32 they had token over the camera manufacturer August Nagel in Stuttgart; those cameras were then sold as the "Kodak Retina" and "Kodak Vollenda" series. Maybe that history contributed to the mix-up.

@BasementEngineer 8 ай бұрын

@@MichaEl-rh1kv Forced labour? You think that convicts should receive free room and board, especially under war time conditions? Get real.

@MichaEl-rh1kv 8 ай бұрын

@@BasementEngineer They were not convicts, but partly people deported from their home countries to do forced labour in Germany, partly concentration camp prisoners (which were in most cases never convicted of anything), partly prisoners of war (which violated Geneva conventions, but Nazis did not really observe those conventions anyway if it came to Russians or East Europeans in general). Convicts got often better treatment than those people. So: Get real yourself.

@JohnRied01 8 ай бұрын

Greetings Felicia! I always enjoy your videos and I watch different ones regularly. May I humbly suggest a topic for you. How are things like the game Dungeons and Dragons, Star Trek TV movies, Star Wars and other Nerd/Geek/Dork/me activities perceived, handled and considered in Germany?

@axelurbanski2774 8 ай бұрын

For a long Time Germany was the elektical and Optical Nation. In the City of Braunschweig sitting Two Major Cam Companys Rollei and Voigtländer Building cameras since 1849. Rollei was known for the Two Eyes middel Format Camera. In Braunschweig Germany is raod named Steinweg. This is a honour for the Piano Maker Brother. Steinweg und Söhne translated to Steinway and Sons. One of the Bothers Build a Sub Company in NY City ... The microscope is a German Invention by Carl Zeis and Ernst Abbe make it real usable for sience..

@bobfrizzelle7979 8 ай бұрын

Great, great show! Thank you, Felicia!

@okaysookay 8 ай бұрын

Love from LA. thanks for all you share :)

@wadedog4280 8 ай бұрын

Can you do a video explaining oktoberfest guidelines ,example the different styles and colors of hats to wear and their meanings if there really is a meaning . Thank you

@randalmayeux8880 8 ай бұрын

Hi Fili! When talking about cameras, you left out Vöitlander. I had 2 of them and they were great.

@utabehrens4671 7 ай бұрын

Feli is a true joy to watch!! I am delighted to have come across her! Uta M. Behrens

@chrstdvd 8 ай бұрын

I am enjoying your videos more and more. It is gratifying to see a person your age so astute and enthusiastic as you. I send links to my cousin in Germany and ask him what he thinks about the videos. In other words he is a check on your conclusions. So far, so good.

@michaelhurley3171 8 ай бұрын

My favorite German invention is you! I just wish I could buy you at a store. Love your videos and your information about Germany. Keep it up Feli!

@HomerNarr 8 ай бұрын

The “edomae elf” manga /anime loves to drink “fonta”. Which makes me laugh every time (and red bell). The changes in names are done to avoid copyright issues. I am used to this but somehow “Fonta” cracks me up.

@lancelachenicht1947 8 ай бұрын

The engraving of Johan Zahn (1641-1707) is not Johan Zahn but of someone in the early 19th century. He would have a wig and a frock coat, not a cravat and a Brutus haircut, if he were from the 17th and 18th centuries.

@chrisbirch4161 8 ай бұрын

Living north of you in Ohio farm country, two German inventions made the verdant fields of corn and soy beans that surround me possible: under field drainage and the ability to add nitrogen directly. Without these developments, modern farming would not be possible.

@timmcm9538 8 ай бұрын

Germany also invented the Haber process to make ammomia from nitrogen and hydrogen. The process makes much of the worlds fertilizer from that ammonia. Being a chemical engineer myself, it has always been amazing to find how much of chemistry was invented in Germany.

@BasementEngineer 8 ай бұрын

@@timmcm9538 If you can read German, there is a marvellous book on this entitled "Wissenschaft Bricht Monopole" or Science breaks monopolies.