German Technology
Chris Pinkerton (Fabio)
Brandon Perry (Bernhard)
BUT BEFORE WE BEGIN
Alles Gute zum
Geburtstag
BERNHARD!!!
** That means
“Happy
Birthday”, in
case you didn’t
catch that.
Overview
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Automobiles
Medicine
Computers
Warfare
Miscellaneous
Bicycle
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What: The first bicycle with a
steering wheel bar attached to
the front, called the Draisienne
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Inventor: Baron Karl von Drais
de Sauerbrun
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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
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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.
Gas Powered Motorcycles
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What: The first Gas Powered
Motorcycle
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Inventor: Gottlieb Daimler
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When: The first motorcycle,
invented in 1867 by an
American inventor, was coalpowered, had two-cylinders,
and was steam driven.
Gottleid Daimler’s version
was developed in 1885.
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Interesting Fact: His mostly
wooden motorcycle had
iron-banded wheels with
wooden spokes. This bonecrunching vehicle was
powered by a single-cylinder
engine.
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What: The Jerry Can
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.
Color
Use
Red
Gasoline(Lead-replacement)
Green
Gasoline (unleaded)
Yellow
Diesel
Blue
Kerosene
Tan or Light Blue
Water (usually labeled)
Tachometer
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What: The first mechanical tachometer
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Inventor: Dietrich Uhlhorn
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Pupose: Original pupose was to measure the
speed of machines, but eventually used to
measure the speed of locomotives.
When
• 1817: Used to measure speed of Machines
• 1840: Used to measure speed of locomotives
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(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
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What: The Diesel Engine (also known as
a compression-ignition engine)
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Inventor: Rudolf Diesel
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When: 1897
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
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Interesting Fact: The diesel engine has the
higest thermal efficiency of any regular
internal or external combustion engine.
Wankel Engine
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What: The Wankel Engine
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Inventor: Felix Wankel
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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
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What: The Zeppelin
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Inventor: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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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
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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
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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.”
“Fünf Mark die Woche musst Du sparen, willst Du im eigenen Wagen
fahren“ – a slogan from Hitler‘s 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.
(fun fact: In addition to the
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 Röntgen, and as such in
many languages X-radiation is actually called
Röntgen 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
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What: The alcohol / mercury thermometer
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Who: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
When
• Alcohol : 1709
• Mercury: 1714
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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.
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Interesting Fact: If you can’t tell by this guys
name, he also invented the temperature scale
that Americans use, the Fahrenheit Scale.
COMPUTERS
ICC (Intergraded Circuit System)
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Early developments of the integrated circuit go
back to 1949, when the German
engineer Werner Jacobi filed a patent for an
circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device.
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An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated
circuit (also referred to as IC, chip,
and microchip) is an electronic
circuit manufactured by dispersing
trace elements into the surface of a thin layer
of semiconductor material.
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Integrated circuits are used in virtually all
electronic equipment today and have
revolutionized the world of
electronics. Computers, cellular phones, and
other digital appliances are now part of the
structure of modern societies, and are made
possible by the low cost of production of the
integrated circuit
Interesting Fact: The first application
of the ICC was in cheap hearing aids.
Konrad Zuse
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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
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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
“Plankalkül”. Meaning Plan Calculus.
On April 1st 1941, he created his company
called “Zuse Ingenieurbüro 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
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Worlds first digital commercial
computer.
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
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Also known as the flying bomb
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Has its own guiding autopilot
system
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2,200lb bomb
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flew at approximately 400mph
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Used by Nazis in WWII
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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.
Video of V-2 in a helpful way
German U-boats
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U-Boat stands for underwater boat
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Used strongly in WWI and WWII
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They participated in unrestricted
warfare (sinking civilian ships,
mechant ships, etc.)
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There are actually 29 different
classes of the U-boat
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Germany had the biggest
submarine fleet in the world mostly
consisting of the U-boats
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The weapon used by the U-boats
was a torpedo (underwater missile
like weapon)
German Guns
Walher Gewehr 41
(G41 / Gew 41)
Mauser Karabiner Kar 98k
Panzerschreck
(Raketenpanzerbuchse)
Luger P08 (Pistole Parabellum
1908 / Parabellum-Pistole)
Panzer Medium Tank
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Developed in the 1930’s and used
by Nazi Germany
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Was supposed to be used against
enemy infantry, but ended up
seeing a lot of action against other
enemy tanks.
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Between the years in WWII
approximately 8,870 of them were
built
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Were widely exported after WWII
to other European and African
countries.
Miscellaneous Technology Engineered by Germans
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Geiger Counter
Telescopes
Bunsen Burner
MP3
FIN
SPECIAL THANKS
Frau P cause she’s an awesome professor
and should give us an A
All of the websites that we
used to find this info
Zelda for moral support
Our entire german class for
putting up with us
……. Especially with this presentation.
Was wir wissen ist ein Tropfen,
was wir nicht wissen ist ein Ozean