What didn't the Germans invent?
-air plane
-cash register
-comptometer (adding machine)
An Ohio barkeeper was making no profit with an open till. After inventing a recording register, James Ritter and brother sold the patent for $1000 around 1880. It took a lot of preaching to sell the idea that implied cashiers and waiters were corrupt. The adding machine came from the US in 1887. It was not a part of the first cash registers, they just printed a ribbon of transactions.
What didn't the Germans invent?
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They didn't invent any of those Japanese inventions:
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I could have used that last week.
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They didn't invent Cheshire cheese.
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Grits.
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Biscuits.
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Flying cars.
The Starfleet's transporter.
The system for creating wormholes to use for FTL space travel.
Telepathy.
A cure for Australianism.
The Starfleet's transporter.
The system for creating wormholes to use for FTL space travel.
Telepathy.
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Oy, don't be a Boer!JacksSmirkingRevenge wrote:Concentration camps.
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Re: What didn't the Germans invent?
Phosgene gas and mustard gas
The swastika
Anti-semitism
Contrary to popular belief they didn't invent any of the above, they just made them really trendy
The swastika
Anti-semitism
Contrary to popular belief they didn't invent any of the above, they just made them really trendy
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No it was a Jewish patriotic chemist that invented mustard has for WWI. Look it up. Fritz?
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Not really the first. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gasTero wrote:No it was a Jewish patriotic chemist that invented mustard has for WWI. Look it up. Fritz?
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