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Bicycle
What: The first bicycle with a steering wheel bar attached to the front, called the Draisienne Inventor: Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun When: The first bicycle model was a scooter like contraption made in 1790 by a Frenchman called a Celerifere. Baron Karl von Drais invented his version on April 6, 1816
Interesting Fact: The Draisienne looked very similar to modern day bicycles, but had no pedals. In order to move you propelled yourself forward using your feet.
Jerry Can
Purpose Originally a fuel container made from pressed steel. Designed for German military use in the 1930s. Used to prevent accidental mixing of fuels, especially with water. Color coding is used to differentiate the tanks.
Tachometer
What: The first mechanical tachometer
When 1817: Used to measure speed of Machines 1840: Used to measure speed of locomotives
(Semi) Interesting Fact: A tachometer is also a device that is used in analog audio recording that measures the speed of audio tape.
Diesel Engine
What: The Diesel Engine (also known as a compression-ignition engine)
Use an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to Initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber during the final stage of compression Interesting Fact: The diesel engine has the higest thermal efficiency of any regular internal or external combustion engine.
Wankel Engine
What: The Wankel Engine Inventor: Felix Wankel When: patented in 1929, but first development was in the 1950s at NSU Mortorenwerke AG
Use is a type of internal combustion engine that uses a rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead of using reciprocating pistons. Its four stroke cycle takes place in a space between the inside of an oval like epitrochoid-shaped housing and a rotor that is similar in shape to a Reuleaux triangle but with sides that are somewhat flatter.
Zeppelin
What: The Zeppelin Inventor: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin When: It was based on designs outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899
Use Originally used as the first form of commercial air transportation, yet after the outbreak of WWI, the German military made extensive use of Zeppelins as bombers and scouts. The World War I defeat of Germany in 1918 halted the airship business temporarily, but civilian zeppelins became popular once again in the 1920s
Interesting Fact: The spire of the Empire State Building was originally, if not impractically, designed to serve as a dirigible terminal for Zeppelins and other airships to dock.
Volkswagen
What: The Volkswagen Information Volkswagen was originally founded in 1937 by the Nazi trade union, the German Labour Front. Because so few Germans could afford a car, Adolf Hitler declared his intentions for a state-sponsored "Volkswagen" program while he was in power. This program created cars with seating for two adults and three children, cheap enough be affordable.
Five Marks a week you must put aside, If in your own car you want to ride.
Fnf Mark die Woche musst Du sparen, willst Du im eigenen Wagen fahren a slogan from Hitlers Volkswagen program
MEDICINE
Origin
Aspirin
400 BC Greek physician Hippocrates prescribes the bark and leaves of the willow tree to relieve pain and fever.
1897 Chemist, Felix Hoffmann, at Bayer in Germany, chemically synthesizes a stable form of ASA powder that relieves his father's rheumatism. The compound later becomes the active ingredient in aspirin named - "a" from acetyl, "spir" from the spirea plant (which yields salicin) and "in," a common suffix for medications. 1899 Bayer distributes aspirin powder to physicians to give to their patients. Aspirin is soon the number one drug worldwide.
first usable form of Aspirin, Felix Hoffmann is also credited for the first successful form of heroin!)
What : X-radiation
X-ray
Who: The discovery of X-radiation is credited to Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen, and as such in many languages X-radiation is actually called Rntgen radiation. Use X-radiation (composed of X-rays) is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Hard X-rays can penetrate solid objects, and their most common use is to take images of the inside of objects.
It has medical uses for medical imaging, which allows a medical professional to created images of the human body for clinical purposes.
Thermometer
What: The alcohol / mercury thermometer Who: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit When Alcohol : 1709 Mercury: 1714 Use: Thermometers measure temperature, by using materials that change in some way when they are heated or cooled. In a mercury or alcohol thermometer the liquid expands as it is heated and contracts when it is cooled, so the length of the liquid column is longer or shorter depending on the temperature. Interesting Fact: If you cant tell by this guys name, he also invented the temperature scale that Americans use, the Fahrenheit Scale.
COMPUTERS
Interesting Fact: The first application of the ICC was in cheap hearing aids.
Konrad Zuse
This was the man who started the computer technology era in Germany.
Born in Berlin, June 22, 1910 and died in Hunfeld December 18, 1995
He Built the world's first functional programcontrolled Turing-complete computer. Turing-Complete means that it can use datamanipulation rules like programming languages or an instruction set. Much of his work was ignored because of the WWII hype and he received little support from the Nazi-German Government. He was married in 1945 and had 5 children
Konrad's Work
Along with creating the first TuringCompleteness computer, he also created the first high level programming language. (High level language is a language that makes programming easier in some cases like using key words and phrases instead of Binary) The language was called Plankalkl. Meaning Plan Calculus. On April 1st 1941, he created his company called Zuse Ingenieurbro und Apparatebau Which was one of the earliest computer companies around. His company created the first commercial computer used around he world called the Z4 in 1944.
Z4
Konrad worked on this computer for about 3 years with close to 2 dozen people, INCLUDING women.
The Z4 has very odd specifications to it compared to today's computers such as: 1. Memory was 64 words (32 bit) 2. Power Comsumption was 4 kW which is more than 100 times less than what my computer is consuming right now. 3. Hertz was only around 40, a computer today can run at 504 Mhz which is 507,000,000 hertz.
WARFARE
V1 Cruise Missile
Also known as the flying bomb Has its own guiding autopilot system 2,200lb bomb flew at approximately 400mph Used by Nazis in WWII Killed about 22,000 people almost entirely civilians, due to the fact that the targeting system only hit its target about 25% of the time
V2 Rocket
Ballistic Missile that was used during WWII It was the worlds first long range combat missile It was shot 80km (50mi) in the air before it would shut off the engine and begin a freefall towards its target.
German U-boats
U-Boat stands for underwater boat Used strongly in WWI and WWII They participated in unrestricted warfare (sinking civilian ships, mechant ships, etc.) There are actually 29 different classes of the U-boat Germany had the biggest submarine fleet in the world mostly consisting of the U-boats The weapon used by the U-boats was a torpedo (underwater missile like weapon)
German Guns
Panzerschreck (Raketenpanzerbuchse)
Were widely exported after WWII to other European and African countries.
FIN
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