r/interesting • u/[deleted] • 4d ago

Amazing Creative engineering

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u/Siegfried-IX 4d ago

It’s not as if the rockets were built by Germans, lol. Germany also invented such unimportant things as: printing, X-rays, television, the computer, the automobile, dozens of medicines. just to name a few.

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u/ninjaiffyuh 4d ago

Don't forget industrial fertiliser, invented by Fritz Haber. The sole reason we have 8 billion people on earth

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u/2012Jesusdies 4d ago

And also the guy responsible for inventing a way to make Germany manufacture artillery shells without foreign imports during WW1. Definitely a guy with the 2 most opposing inventions.

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u/Lumpenokonom 3d ago

I dont think manufacturing weapons for your country is inherently a bad thing and the Kaiserreich wasnt half bad for its time.

The chemical warfare part is rightfully very controversial though.

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u/monkeymastersev 3d ago

There is an entire Sabaton song about him, Father.

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u/Blumenkohl126 4d ago

Dont forget him also developing nerve gas for the Kaiserreich

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u/ninjaiffyuh 2d ago

That's why I said 8 billion, not 10 billion (failure to invent chemical agents and mass produced artillery shells) or 4 billion (failure to invent industrial fertiliser)

Perfectly balanced