Inventions from Germany!

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Inventions from Germany!

• Germans have invented many things we couldnt
  live without anymore.
• Weve limited a very long list to our personal
  TOP 10 Inventions, Discoveries and
  Breakthroughs.
• We hope not to have missed the one invention
  that has completely changed your life -)

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Adidas The Shoes with the Three Stripes

• Adidas is the second largest sportswear
  manufacturer worldwide and was named after its
  founder, Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
• Adolf started producing shoes in the 1920s in
  Herzogenaurach near Nuremberg with the help of
  his brother Rudolf, who later formed the rival
  shoe company Puma.

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Aspirin The White Wonder

• In 1897, the company Bayer developed the first
  pain remedy with minimal side effects.
• Aspirin is one of the worlds most-favored
  medications for pain, fever and inflammation.

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Automobile The Freedom of Movement

• The idea for a vehicle that would permit rapid,
  independent locomotion came to two German
  inventors.
• In the year 1886, Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler
  made humankind mobile.
• At first, Germans were unenthusiastic about the
  new invention. Too loud, too fast, too
  dangerous was the judgment.

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Beer(allowed for people older than 16 !!!)

• Beer was invented by german monks at bavarian
  monestries .
• The oldest still existing brewery in Germany was
  founded in 1040.

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Bicycle The Wooden Horse

• The first early version of the bicycle was
  invented by Baron Karl von Drais.
• His Laufmaschine (1817) were foot-powered
  wooden devices without pedals.

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Book Printing

• Johannes Gutenberg was a German craftsman and
  printer who invented the first printing press in
  1450.
• Printed materials were made available to the
  masses for the first time in history.

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Christmas Tree

• In 1419, a Christmas tree was mentioned for the
  first time.
• This tree was decorated with candy and pastry and
  set up by bakers in Germanys Southwest.
• The tradition to set up such a decorated tree at
  Christmas time spread throughout Germany and the
  whole world.
• Emigrants brought the Christmas tree to America,
  and in 1889 the first Christmas tree was set up
  in the White House.

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Kindergarten The American Pre-School

• Friedrich Froebel was a German educational
  reformer who invented the kindergarten
• ("garden of children").
• He opened the first Kindergarten in 1837 to
  protect children from misery at the beginning of
  industrialization.

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Toothpaste Good taste on your tongue

• The person responsible for healthy teeth is the
  pharmacist Ottomar von Mayenburg. He experimented
  in 1907 with tooth powder, mouthwash and ethereal
  oils.
• What he came up with was a toothpaste he named
  Chlorodont. And weve been brushing our teeth
  regularly after breakfast and before bedtime -)

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X-Ray Technology

• X-rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad
  von Röntgen.
• X-rays were soon used as an important diagnostic
  tool in medicine.

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• By the way
• The COMENIUS Exchange Programm
• was invented in 1995.
• As one of the best inventions ever it enables us
  to make friends all over Europe!
• THANK YOU !!!