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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Though named after Hamburg, it was an American invention.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Printed circuit boards. Printing press. Graph theory. Theory of relativity. Homeopathy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could've really stopped at "relativity".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yes but I felt the need to include the evil/misguided minority of Germans, and I managed to do it without referencing certain 20th century events.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nowadays we invent things by describing the thing in Chatgibidy instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Chatskibidi?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

everything that germany invented before google existed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Diesel engine, Fischer-Tropsch, Homeopathy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The vacuum pump?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The woman that birthed Gutenberg

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