What didn't the Germans invent?

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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by SteveB » Sun Jan 06, 2013 5:38 pm

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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by macdoc » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:07 pm

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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by Tero » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:35 pm

Heroin was invented in London by this dude
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_ ... der_Wright

Germans also missed out on penicillin. I think they had some syphilis drugs.
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:43 pm

Tero wrote:Heroin was invented in London by this dude
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_ ... der_Wright

Germans also missed out on penicillin. I think they had some syphilis drugs.
Wasn't heroin supposed to be morphine so purified there would be no danger of addiction?
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:43 pm

Tero wrote:Heroin was invented in London by this dude
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_ ... der_Wright

Germans also missed out on penicillin. I think they had some syphilis drugs.
Wasn't heroin supposed to be morphine so purified there would be no danger of addiction?
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by Tero » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:49 pm

Yes.

Mustard gas dude was Wilhelm
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Steinkopf

Not Fritz Haber.
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:50 pm

Did the Germans invent nitrogen fertilizer?
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by klr » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:51 pm

All the things the Scots invented.

Which, if you listen to certain Scottish people, is almost everything. :hehe:
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:52 pm

Chess.

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Pasta.

Gunpowder.
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by Tero » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:54 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Did the Germans invent nitrogen fertilizer?
Fritz again

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber

He invented all poisons prior to mustard gas.
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by HomerJay » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:56 pm

Blitzkrieg.

Uh, hang on...
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by klr » Sun Jan 06, 2013 6:59 pm

HomerJay wrote:Blitzkrieg.

Uh, hang on...
No, you were right first time. They just gave it a fancy name ... :smug:
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by SteveB » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:11 pm

klr wrote:All the things the Scots invented.

Which, if you listen to certain Scottish people, is almost everything. :hehe:
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by JimC » Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:19 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Flying cars.

The Starfleet's transporter.

The system for creating wormholes to use for FTL space travel.

Telepathy.

A cure for Australianism.
That's because there isn't one...

And the Germans did not invent the stump-jump plough!
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?

Post by macdoc » Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:24 pm

see it sez right there laddie...

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must be true then....where' me kilt. :biggrin:
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