To date, what is Germany's greatest invention?

Answer 1

Certainly not beer. Beer was brewed by the ancient Egyptians.

Certainly not the printing press or movable type because those were invented by the Chinese more than 1000 years before Gutenberg was born.

Certainly not the automobile. Nicolas Joseph Cugnot of France built the first automobile in 1769. It was powered by steam. The first gas powered automobile was built in 1824 by English engineer, Samuel Brown.

Certainly not the rocket since that was the work of Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard who built and tested successfully the first rocket using liquid fuel on March 16,1926 at Auburn, Massachusetts.

Germany's greatest inventions are in the field in which they clearly did excel...chemistry.

And of the many things discovered or invented by German chemists the greatest is probably aspirin. It was extracted from willow bark by Johann Buchner, professor of pharmacy at the University of Munich in 1828.

Answer 2

Johanes Gutenberg c.1397—1468, German inventor and printer, long credited with the invention of a method of printing from movable type, including the use of metal molds and alloys, a special press, and oil-based inks: a method that, with refinements and increased mechanization, remained the principal means of printing until the late 20th cent. His type, which was hand set with characters of equal height, was printed on handmade paper

Reinheitsgebot (purity requirement) dating from 1516, according to which the only allowed ingredients of beer are "Wasser (water), Hopfen (hops) und (Gersten-)Malz (barley-malt)". Many breweries worldwide adopted the Reinheitsgebot for their own beers. After its invention, cultured yeast became the fourth legal ingredient. Through the agreement (which was law up to 1988 but is still adhered to by virtually all German brewers), beers from Germany tend to have a good reputation for their quality. The Germans are behind only the Czechs and the Irish in their per capita consumption of beer

The automobile powered by the Otto gasoline engine was invented in Germany by Karl Benz in 1885. Benz was granted a patent dated 29 January 1886 in Mannheim for that automobile. Even though Benz is credited with the invention of the modern automobile, several other German engineers worked on building automobiles at the same time. In 1886, Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Stuttgart patented the first motor bike, built and tested in 1885, and in 1886 they built a converted horse-drawn stagecoach. In 1870, German-Austrian inventor Siegfried Marcus assembled a motorized handcart, though Marcus's vehicle didn't go beyond the experimental stage.

Answer 3

The 1957 Mercedes Benz 300SL gullwing.

Answer 4

Beer

Answer 5

The Human Oven.

Answer 6

The movable type printing press is the correct answer, but someone else got it before I did and deserves the 10 points.

Answer 7

I'd have to go along with "beer."
Sure, they perfected the car, the jet aircraft, the liquid fuel rocket, printing, steel manufacture (Yah, Krups!), the automatic pistol, submarines... a whole host of military and civilian technologies.
But beer, and sauerbraten ... yummm!

Answer 8

Printing press;Automobiles with internal combustion engines;V2 rockets;the first practical jets.

Answer 9

beer, though the egyptians invented it the german beer is about the best in the world.

Answer 10

rocket propulsion v2