The computer wasn't invented in Britain, it was invented in Germany (Konrad Zuse)

You were tricked into watching a Zeiss advertisement XD

Sorry! But the first operational computer was developed by Konrad Zuse in Germany! The Z1

I understand that you’re probably simplifying, but saying that Carl Zeiss makes glass is the understatement of the millennium

Zeiss is everything about optics. So I was short sighted my whole life, an 5 years ago (in my mid-40s), I had an eye surgery in Düsseldorf. The Doctor was the Supervisor who also checked my visual ability - but the op itself was completely done by a huge robot - from Zeiss. I have a Vision now above 100 % (yes, that's possible). Before, I had around 25 % on my left eye and a little bit over 20 % on my right eye. Thank to Zeiss, I can see the second I wake up - without reaching for my glasses or putting lenses in my eyes.

Computers are rather a German invention by Konrad Zuse. Also while nearly the whole world takes Alexander Graham Bell as inventor of the telephone, there was a German Phillip Reis who came actually first. So actually Germans invented a lot more than the car. 😊

Turing (UK) invented the theoretical concept of computing/computable. Konrad Zuse (DE) build the first programmable and general usable computer. Fairchild Inc. (US) developed the integrated circuit that combines transistors and other electronic components on a chip. Later on out of Fairchild a new company was founded, named Intel.

zeiss did the mirrors in hubble

Zeiss is a bigger one of so many hidden champions in Germany.

The printing press by Gutenberg, was a game changer for the whole world.

Zeiss makes everythink about optics

The first ever "Self-Contained breathing apparatus" was invented by a german (Johann Heinrich Draeger). He and his company influced and built many important stuff for medical and other fields, including mining, diving and safety equitment for fire fighters. Thats why rescue workers in the US mining field are called "Drägermen" because of the Dräger equitment (also there was once a 1937 movie called "Draegerman Courage" about mine workers and even a 1938 superman comic, where he got help from some workers to search for lost miners) And another node is, that the first succesful climb to the mount Everest peak was done with equitment from Dräger.

Yes Zeiss is most famous for making high quality camera lenses (for almost 100 years now) and high quality glass for glasses, that's a rather small part of their operation though, but since it is what most people will interact with it is what they're known for

If we ever figure out the powerproblem, you can bet the Lasgun will include Zeiss Lenses and Mirrors.

My Brother is working for Zeiss semiconductors. And it’s just surfing on the edge of physics. Imagine to standardize such a process. It’s a nightmare 😂

NASA Zeiss designed the optical components for the James Webb Space Telescope. Smartphone lenses Zeiss worked with Nokia, and later with Microsoft Mobile as they continued production of the Lumia series.[37] The Nokia 808 PureView features a lens custom-developed by Zeiss for its 1/1.2 inch sensor; as did its successor, the Nokia Lumia 1020. The Nokia N90 and Nokia N8 also used Zeiss optics. In 2017, Zeiss again provided optics for Nokia products through a collaboration with HMD Global,[25] beginning with the Nokia 8.[38]

The first micro chips were invented in Germany to be used in credit and bank cards ! And as I said in many vlogs before : inventions and education and training skills are the " raw material " we build our wealth on as we lack the sources of countries like China Russia or the USA or Canada. There is NOT A SINGLE MOBILE PHONE on this planet without something that was made with the help of a German company. :)

There's a wikipedia page listing german inventions, it's pretty nutty. Also germany largely does not "make" things, besides cars, that's not how you get a long term business. You want to make the things that make the things (that make the things). You don't want to build tunnels, but rather the machines that build the tunnels that every company that builds tunnels wants to have. Or in this case, you don't want to make smartphones or computers, but the part that makes the machine that makes them work. It's super specific, only needed in one or two products, made by a couple other companies whose product everyone wants.

There were two Zeiss companies, because the company was split up after the war. I think the more capable one was the one in the East, Carl Zeiss Jena.

Chip manufacturing is insane, and basically a monopoly. The most advanced Chips are pretty much only produced by TSMC (Taiwan) and the only Lithography Machines advanced enough to make these Chips are made by ASML (Netherlands), and the only optical systems advanced enough to be used in these Mashines are made by Zeiss (Germany). If any one of these companies vanishes, the world stops functioning.

The question is: What is an invention? There is almost no invention that comes out of "no where" and is "now here". Many people are responsible for the computer. Konrad Zuse did build the first working electronic programmable computer. It is certainly an invention based on theories by Alan Turing who improved theories by Kurt Gödel, an Austrian, who improved... This first computer is certainly an invention. It took Konrad Zuse several years to figure out and develop all the systems to make the hardware work. So the computer (hardware) is certainly a German invention. The theories behind the machine rest on many brilliant minds. It is not based on the theories by von Neumann. He published them in 1945 while the computer Z3 was finished in 1941. Some of the Von-Neumann-Architecture was already patented by Konrad Zuse in the late 1930s. Theoretical background is based on the works of Leibniz (binary system), Babbage (analytical engine), Lovelace (programming), Gödel (mathematical model), Turing (mathematical model on computation), and others who found models and theories way before technology was ready to make use of them.

Its kinda the other way around: a German invented the electronic computer and the Americans invented the micro chip. Though, it wasn't that micro at the beginning. The idea is just to pack many semi conductors into one chip, instead of having them seperatly like in the early days of transistors. Yes, all the micro chip technology today would not be possible without the state of the art optics from Zeiss. And that has a long tradition: for over a century Zeiss is top supplier for scientific microscopes. A number of discoveries in the field of biology would probably not have been possible without Zeiss products as well.

Zeiss supplies the mirrors for the ASML chip making machines. ASML is Dutch.

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I work in the semiconductor field in southwest germany and I can guarantee that at least a couple components in your phone are from my city, or at the very least used a patented method for production from my city :D

haha I got the Zeiss ad just before this video

Most important? Only one right answer. The book press

Computer was invented in Germany! At least computer, that could process different tasks (programmable) and was not only build for one specific purpose. So computer as we know them today. Zeiss makes all kind of optical/glass stuff. They also manufacture lenses as you mentioned and also even glasses so you can see better :D

zeiss produces microscopes, we have a lot of these at work

I actually make some chips during my PhD. The chip is coated in light sensitive resist and then exposed either with light or with an electron beam. A developing agent then washes away the exposed resist. Then there are many methods to manipulate the surface: You can etch it with wet chemicals or plasma. Or you evaporate some metal and let a thin layer deposit on the surface. But all these influences only influence the areas without resist. Then you wash away the resist with acetone. For computer chips you need to repeat that process dozens of times. The chips I make can't compute anything and are far less detailed (the smallest structure I have is 2 μm, whereas in computer chips it's nanometers).

Fun fact: In the 1970s and 1980s a Spanish woman worked for Zeiss -- by the way: the _Z_ is pronounced as _Ts_ -- fine-polishing mirrors by hand. When she fell ill, Zeiss learnt that they rely on a single person for certain high-end products and no machine available provided equivalent results. They then started investing in better polishing machines.

Fun Fact: to be able to manufacture these super high quality things they placed their factory in the place with the least seismical activity within europe.

The Computer was invented in Germany by Konrad Zuse in multiple unimaginable expensive intervals that filled multiple rooms with electronic parts and I’m honestly tired of giving Turing even a bit credit for a thought project on the level of an simple calculator by now

So glad the expression "cool beans" is still around. I always liked it. Interesting video, Ryan.

Well, Maybe you heard about the Philae-Lander, the first space probe that did a soft landing on a comet. The Legs of this probe were made in a small Workshop four buildings down our street in a small village north of Ruhrgebiet. If you don't know you'd drive past this small shop never registering it. Most people will not look into the direction of the small shop because diagonally across the street is an expensive looking house behind a small circuit driveway that houses a well known red-light business. 😉😁

Agree to Abbath and ThePredatorDE..the first functional computer was invented by Konrad Zuse in Germany years before the British one.. Which things where invented in the USA, especial from US Americans? I do not know only one.. Space-rocket where invented by Germans, the Apollo was build by Germans.. oh, sorry I forgot the lift, the electric lamp, the revolver and the telegraph. But the best invention was the Bottle blowing machine.. 😂 But you know the point with Zuse.. have a look at your older videos. American reacts to '10 most important German inventions in history' 4 month ago..

The first microchip (integrated circuit) was invented in America by a Texas Instruments employee Jack Kilby. The first programmable computer was invented by a German Engineer Konrad Zuse (obviously, it didn't have any microchips).

Zeus’s makes very high precision optical instruments, including microscopes, telescopes, camera lenses and everything similar.

Yes, the USA has great scientists. And Germany has good engineers, as do Japan, China, India, France, Brazil, Kenya... We have a lot of success when we all work well TOGETHER - and not just with weapons of war and attack planning (….) Unfortunately, people still work too much against each other or too little with each other … Kind regards from Northern Germany

Zeiss makes very many things. They make camera lenses, glasses for the eyes, precision lenses and mirrors, industrial precision coordinate measuring machines and so on. I have Zeiss glasses and sometimes work with their coordinate measuring machines

Arm Holdings plc (formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a British semiconductor and software design company based in Cambridge, England, whose primary business is the design of central processing unit (CPU) cores that implement the ARM architecture family of instruction sets. It also designs other chips, provides software development tools under the DS-5, RealView and Keil brands, and provides systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip (SoC) infrastructure and software. As a "holding" company, it also holds shares of other companies. Since 2016, it has been majority owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group. While ARM CPUs first appeared in the Acorn Archimedes, a desktop computer, today's systems include mostly embedded systems, including ARM CPUs used in virtually all modern smartphones. Processors based on designs licensed from Arm, or designed by licensees of one of the ARM instruction set architectures, are used in all classes of computing devices. Arm has two lines of graphics processing units (GPUs), Mali, and the newer Immortalis (which includes hardware-based ray-tracing).[6] Arm's main CPU competitors in servers include IBM, Intel and AMD. Wikipedia.

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I am not a fan of exaggerated national pride. Yes, computers, microchips, the car and modern radiology in medicine are German inventions. But strictly speaking, they are international inventions, because no scientist works in a vacuum. For me, it is humanity that has made these milestones possible. Okay though I do feel a little comfortable seeing German names in the list of inventors. As far as the computer is concerned: Ryan, you've had this topic before. And each time you were surprised that it was Konrad Zuse.😉😊

Still wonder how they pull it off, since the details of the circuits are fractions of the wavelength of visible light. You'd have to account for all kinds of unwelcome things light does at those dimensions, like bending and interference. Also usually the dies don't just get developed once, it's a long process of different layerings and etchings, which all have to align very precisely.

Dude i think lenses is the keyword when it comes to zeiss. they create binoculars, that givs you the feeling to stand right where you look its crystal clear, and olny costs 300Euro xD

0:20 - How about: Konrad Zuse, inventor of the computer (1941) Johann Philipp Reis, inventor of the telephone (1860) Carl Benz, inventor of the automobile (1885) to name just a few. 🤷‍♂

Z is not spoken as S, but as Ts in german! Zeiss -> Tseiss. Just like Zug (train), Zeppelin or Zeit (time). Ts has the same sound like the t's in let's. Any microelectronics, semiconductors or satellite stuff is produced in clean rooms. I used to work in one for LED-production (semiconductors) and we had white clean clothing. That's where my nickname back then came from, because you could only see the eyes: White ninja xDDD

You should also lookup DESMA from Germany. They have the monopol on shoe soles molding machines. There isn't a single sneaker on the planet that has not been in a DESMA machine. If DESMA would be gone for some reason we need to go to the cobbler again. All shoes with foam plastic and rubber soles would be gone for good.

9:31 No american president can dictate free and privatly owned EU companys anything, the only explanation that would make sense is that the US state pays them a shitload of money for an exclusiv use of the technology. The EU can impose trade embargos (looking at you russia) that will affect a dutch and german company. This vid suggests a lot of power and worldwide authority in the office of the pres. of america. That is not reality.

The very first integrated circuit - several electronic semiconductor elements on a single glass substrate - was developed by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments in 1958. Although there have been similar ideas around during the preceding decade his device was actually the first one integrating several individual devices on a single substrate to create a defined electronic function. In 1959 he filed a patent together with Robert Noyce at the USPTO. Later Noyce became one of the founders of intel Corp. which created the x86 computer processor architecture driving personal computers since their introduction in the early 1980ies. The idea of integrating several electronic devices in a single housing to provide a more comprehensive electronic function has been realized in vaccum tubes and has been used in very early implementations of radio and television systems before. Zuse was inspired by mechanical calculators which he was using to calculate the static stability of buildings and other architectural structures. However, calulators are desinged to perform a limited set of mathematical calulations. And if one calculation returns a result, quite often that has to be reentered to do the next calculation step and so on and on and on ... Zuse admitted that those calculations were boring and he didn't like doing them. So he started to think about a device allowing to combine several calculation steps and to do so in a configurable way - which ended up to be called programmable. And since he had started with mechanical calculators his first configurable calculator was mechanical too. With later versions he started to use electronic devices - electromagnetic relays and electronic vacuum tubes - more and more. Unfortunately the early systems were destroyed during WWII. The first mechanical calculator was built by Wilhelm Schickard in 1623. Schickard, a professor at the university of Tübingen, wanted to facilitate astronomical calculations and invented a "clock" for that purpose. Today an institute at the faculty of computer science in Tübingen is named after him.

by the way, the transistor is a german invention too

The Antikythera Mechanism (140-80 BC) is considered the be the first analog computer. So the honors for inventing the computer goes toooooooo: Greece.

Bluetooth..but that was in Austria, Heidi Lamarr. You are welcome. Yeah she lived somewhere else later but she was working on it.

The first programmable computer recognized as such is the Zuse Z3, which was developed by Konrad Zuse in Germany in 1941. The Z3 was the first fully operational, fully automatic, programmable, and freely programmable computer that used binary floating-point arithmetic.

The programmable computer was an invention that comes from Germany. It was an invention by Konrad Zuse. Turing did a HUGE amount of work to describe and define data manipulation rules. Zeiss is a company that is specialized in optics of all sorts. From glasses (the ones you wear on your face) through all sorts of lenses to mirrors..

Diggi, der Computer wurde in Bad Hersfeld erfunden..

The first real computer was also invented in germany by Konrad Zuse in 1943

Alan Touring invented the Touring machine, a machine programmable with magnet tape (at least that's the model of the touring macine). The first digital computer was built by Conrad Zuse (Z1). This digital machine was mechanical. The Z2 was built with magnetic switches and the Z3 with tubes. Non of Zuses machines were built using semiconductors. The transistor wimply wasn't invented yet. There were even calculation machines available way earlier. The first has been built by Blaise pascal (french guy) and Leibniz (German Mathematician) has also built one - a bit more sophisticated than Pascal's, but still mechanical. The transistor was invented in the US, aswell as the first integrated circruit AND the first microprocessor. I would say, this was the birth of the first digital computer as we know ist.

For a full list we have to sit hear till tomorrow 😂

For me the most important improvement of an already understood principle was the Haber-Bosch process. Haber is a very problematic individual due to his involvement of the development of nerve gases (mustard gas) during WW1. But the Haber-Bosch process was an incredible jump in energy efficiency for the binding of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia. Why was this so important? Because at the end of the 19th century the agricultural industry still used animal dung, as well as bird and bat guano to create fertilizer. These had been deposited at specific sites of bird and bat colonies over millenia but had almost been depleted by one century of agricultural and population growth. By the end of 50 more years ALL such deposits would have been completely depleted causing mass starvation. The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia allowed for virtually unlimited artificial fertilizer to be created cheaply and efficiently. How ammonia is also required in huge amounts in the production of explosives, as well as in most nerve agents. So while yes, the Habet-Bosch process helped killing a few million people, it helped feed billions. Without it our world could at best feed four billion people on starvation levels, while depleting all natural food sources. Today we could easily feed ten billion people if we could just ignore our greed and fairly distribute all our foods among the world population. That's why I chose this reaction process as the greatest, but also the most problematic German invention. It requires a huge measure of restraint not to abuse it for greedy or negative purposes.

"The Computer was invented in Britain" Konrad Zuse crying in the corner 😭😂

Ultra-violet or near-UV frequencies are the reason you can store more data on a DVD than on a CD. CD uses red lasers (if I remember correctly) and DVD uses blue lasers. Blu-Ray shortens the wavelength even further. It's the same principle they use for those microchips.

One other German invention that changed a lot is the button hole. It was invented in the middle ages.

Without this German invention, modern civilization would collapse: Zeiss lenses Thanks to this German invention, modern civilization will collapse: The gasoline engine We're changing the world one ingenious step at a time 🥰

Actaully the Germans created the first computer too. Konrad Zuse created the first personal electronically programmable computer able to be used by anyone at work or at home !

Zeiss seems only to hire Twins :-) there are alway 2 Persons together :D

Maybe the printing press was the german Invention that made people being able to read and study on a broader scale.

Integrated circuits and mirco processors are American inventions. All the early semiconductor companies are from the US (TI, Fairchild, Intel, IBM).

Zeiss only makes lenses and mirrors for all sorts of applications. Cameras or space telescopes and basicly everything that uses lenses. ASML only builds machines that produce chips that cost millions and are all custom made. There is a documentary on ASML and its insane how much work is put into that machines. Often they have to do new things like laser shoot a liquid drop thats dropping down in the air to create a single atom or something like that. This machines are absolutely crazy. TSMC, NVIDIA, Samsung and all this chip producers buy the machines for their chip production factories from ASML.

The car was also invented in Germany by Karl Benz in 1885. No it wasn't Henry Ford he just industrialized the making of cars

Interestingly enough... Zeiss together with IBM are working on not using mirrors anymore but using liquid lenses to focus the lights in those litography machines

Actually, it's pronounced "TSEISS".

american high-tech: telecomunication and weapons german high-tech: stuff that builds stuff that everyone else needs

btw: The "IC" -> microchip was invented by Jack Kilby (and Robert Noyce). He received the Nobel price in physics for that. And since then he is called "the father of the microchip". So, it was invented in the US. ...but the first programmable(!) computer was build by Kontrad Zuse (Berlin).

The first Computer, that used the binary system, was the Zuse 1, invented by Konrad Zuse, who was, you guessed it, German. This compter worked with tubes, transistors came later.

aaand, not only the Diesel Engine was invented in Germany. Also the Petrol Engine (Otto engine) was invented in Germany by Nicolas August Otto aswell as the Wankel Rotary Engine, which was invented by Felix Wankel. So all combustion engines come from Germany, aswell as the first car.

"The Computer was invented in Britain." :D *grabs popcorn

It's more interesting that even kinda informed people from the US have no clue what US politics does outside the US...

0:21 Its Beer. And when they took a sip, they invented the Computer.

"the computer was invented in Britain .... " thats very debatable ... Konrad Zuse built a free programmable one earlier as Turing his code breaker ... and he did it alone and 'in academic isolation' ...

Reg. Zeiss, anything that’s really high level, telescopes, binoculars, microscopes, camera lenses, even certain glasses, will have Zeiss optics or lenses in them.

A Brit(Alan Turing) invented the theoretical math behind it, a german Konrad Zuse engineered the first version.

Basically the top manufacturers of microchips still go to Europe to buy the tools they need. The Netherlands and Germany has the knowhow, even if their largest customers are from Taiwan or Korea.

Zeiss also builds cameras, planetariums, microscopes, telescopes and much more. Anything to do with optical and astronomical science.

ZEISS also makes the glasses for glasses (English is weird) They also make many medical products like MRTs and CTs

I was actually convinced this would be about the MOS FET

Just a little hint: the German Z as in Zeiss is pronounced like TS, so it's not Seiss, it's Tseiss.

the haber bosch process which enabled the world to feed more than a bilion people (creating fertilizer on an industrial scale) we where approaching mass starvation because the guano reserves where almost depleted and farming couldn't produce as much as needed not to mention to feed ten times the amount of people as it does today maybe the printing press, maybe the diesel engine or the otto-motor, microchips or .. well there are so many but i THINK those are amongs the most important

ZEISS and ASML are at the point where smaller transistors come with problems based on quantum mechanics... They are already only a few atoms in size.

Computers are not an invention of modern times, nor are they solely a German invention, even though Konrad Zuse's work led to the first reliable electronic programmable computer in Germany. The ideas and principles behind modern programmables computers existed over 100 years earlier. Long before the modern era, the term 'computer' referred to a person who performed calculations. In ancient Greece, around 200 BC, mechanisms like the Antikythera mechanism were created to calculate astronomical constellations. However, the foundational principles of modern computer architecture were first introduced by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. In the 1820s, Charles Babbage began developing the 'Difference Engine', a mechanical calculator designed to compute polynomial functions. Although never completed in his lifetime, the Difference Engine was the first mechanical device intended to automate complex calculations. Later, in the 1830s, Babbage conceptualized the 'Analytical Engine', which was far more advanced and included principles foundational to modern computers. The Analytical Engine was designed to include a control unit, arithmetic logic unit, memory, and input/output mechanisms-core components of modern computer architecture. It also introduced the concept of programmability using punched cards, a method inspired by the Jacquard loom. Moving forward to the 20th century, Konrad Zuse made significant advancements in computer technology. In 1941, he developed the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical, programmable computer. Unlike Babbage's mechanical designs, the Z3 used electrical relays, which allowed for faster and more reliable calculations. The Z3 was programmed using punched tape and could perform a variety of complex computations, marking a crucial step towards modern computing. Meanwhile, Alan Turing laid the theoretical foundation for computer science with his concept of the Turing machine in 1936. The Turing machine is an abstract mathematical model that helps us understand what it means for a function to be computable. It consists of a tape divided into cells (which can be seen as memory), a tape head that can read and write symbols on the tape, and a set of rules (an algorithm) that dictate the machine's operations based on its current state and the symbol it reads. Turing's groundbreaking insight was that any calculation or algorithm that can be precisely defined can be performed by a Turing machine, given enough time and tape. This means that a Turing machine can, in theory, simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, making it a fundamental model for understanding computation itself. This concept of a universal machine was pivotal in the development of modern computers and the theory of computation. Together, these pioneers-Babbage, Lovelace, Zuse, and Turing-each contributed uniquely to the evolution of computing. Babbage and Lovelace introduced the architectural principles, Zuse brought these principles into practical application with his electromechanical machines, and Turing provided the theoretical framework that underpins modern computer science

Zeiss is an optica manufacturer, the best there is in Germany.

I would argue, that the most important invention from Germany is the Haber-Bosch Process.

Without One German Product, Modern Civilization Would Collapse : Kehrwoche

Amsl is Dutch. They have the power to

0:58 No, the computer was invented in Germany from Konrad Zuse - Z3 in 1941

best utuber, actually gives credit to other channels etc

zeiss is a formerly east-german company. so it was inoffically ruled by the soviet union.

oh, btw.: what's the Imperial unit for nm?

11:20 No Microchip, No Computer.

James Webb Space Telescope? yes they have their stuff in there, too. Lol. But Zeiss is pronounced: "Tssaiss" sharp Ts.