List of German inventions and discoveries

The following list is composed of items, techniques and processes that were invented by or discovered by people from Germany or German-speaking Europe.

Anatomy

• Ampulla of Vater
• Auerbach's plexus
• Brodmann's areas
• Canals of Hering
• Crypts of Lieberkühn
• Duct of Wirsung
• Hesselbach's triangle
• Hurthle cell
• Islets of Langerhans
• Kiesselbach's plexus
• Krause's end-bulbs
• Kupffer cells
• Langhans giant cell
• Langerhans cell
• Lissauer's tract
• Loop of Henle
• Meibomian glands
• Meissner's corpuscle
• Meissner's plexus
• Merkel cell
• Müllerian ducts
• Nissl bodies
• Rathke's pouch
• Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
• Spiral valves of Heister
• Virchow's node
• Wernicke's area
• Wolffian duct
• Zonule of Zinn

Chemistry

• Aspirin
• Bohrium
• Darmstadtium
• Eupione
• Germanium
• Glauber's salt
• Hassium
• Indium
• Meitnerium
• Paraffin
• Phenol
• Pittacal
• Roentgenium

Computing

• Chip card
• modern Binary numeral system
• MP3
• Plankalkül
• Z3 (computer)

Engineering

• Diesel engine
• Tachometer
• Toepler pump
• V-2
• Wankel engine
• Printing Press

Geology

• Mohs scale of mineral hardness

Household appliances

• Coffee filter^[1]

Medicine

• Alzheimer's disease
• Morphine ^[2]

Military

• The modern flamethrower
• Submachine gun
• The modern assault rifle
• Jet-powered fighter aircraft
• Ballistic missile
• Rifling

Musical instruments

• Wagner tuba
• Accordion^[3]
• Glockenspiel

Physics

• Stark effect
• Stark spectroscopy

Religion

• Christmas tree
• Protestantism

Science

• Bark scale
• Bergius process
• Bunsen burner
• Diene synthesis
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Fahrenheit temperature scale
• Gauss
• Geiger counter
• Geiger–Müller tube
• General relativity
• Haber process
• Hertz
• Ohm
• Petri dish
• Planck units
• Quantum mechanics
• Röntgen
• Siemens
• Special relativity
• Uncertainty principle
• Weber
• X-ray crystallography

Transportation

• Automobile: invented by Karl Benz
• Petroleum-powered motorcycle^[4]
• Zeppelin

See also

• German inventors and discoverers

References