Erfinder und Erfindungen in den deutschsprachigen Ländern

Invention: coffee filter
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Elke Wetzig.
Who invented the coffee filter [Kaffeefilter] in 1908?
1. Melitta Bentz
2. Hanna Reitsch
Invention: car
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / public domain.
Who is considered to be the father and inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile [Kraftwagen]?
1. Karl Benz
2. Rudolf Diesel
3. Ferdinand Porsche
Invention: mp3 music file-format
• Photo: pixabay.com / public domain, adapted by D Nutting.
Who (with contributions from other people) invented the audio compression format MPEG Audio Layer 3, more commonly known as MP3, in the late 1980s and early 1990s?
1. Karlheinz Brandenburg
2. Heinrich Hertz
3. Georg Simon Ohm
4. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Invention: V2 rocket - this replica was erected in 1995 at the museum site at Peenemünde, Usedom, Germany
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Lars Aronsson.
Who was the foremost rocket engineer of the 20th century, and later built rockets [Rakete] for the American space program?
1. Wernher von Braun
2. Rudolf Diesel
3. Ernst Mach
Invention: historical single-piston diesel engine displayed in the Deutsches Museum, München.
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Olivier Cleynen.
Who invented the diesel engine [der Dieselmotor]?
1. Rudolf Diesel
2. Gottlieb Daimler
3. Karl Benz
4. Ferdinand Porsche
Invention: mercury thermometer
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Menchi.
Who invented the mercury thermometer [Quecksilberthermometer] in 1714?
1. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
2. Heinrich Hertz
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Who discovered the element Uranium [Uran]?
1. Martin Heinrich Klaproth
2. Hans Geiger
3. Adolf Eugen Fick
Who discovered x-rays [Röntgenstrahlen] (on 8th November 1895), earning the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901?
1. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
2. Hans Geiger
3. Heinrich Hertz
Who invented the first programmable computing machine / computer [Rechner]?
1. Konrad Zuse
2. Karlheinz Brandenburg
3. Werner von Siemens
Flektogon 4/20 lens.
• Photo: © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons).
Who pioneered glass casting and processes for high quality optics [Feinmechanik und Optik] (e.g. in cameras)?
1. Carl Zeiss
2. Carl Kellner
3. Martin Heinrich Klaproth
nuclear fusion diagram
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons, author unknown.
Who developed a device that measures ionizing radiation and detects the emission of nuclear radiation?
1. Hans Geiger
2. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
3. Otto Lilienthal
4. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
pregnancy
• Photo: pixabay.com / Greg Roose.
Who developed the first scientific pregnancy test [Schwangerschaftstest]?
1. Selmar Aschheim
2. Melitta Bentz
3. Franziska van Almsick
Invention: contact lens
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Etan J. Tal.
Who developed the first useable contact lens [Kontaktlinse]?
1. Adolf Eugen Fick
2. Carl Zeiss
3. Albert Einstein
Who is considered the father of the science of psychoanalysis [Psychoanalyse]? He wrote a famous book called "The Interpretation of Dreams" ["Die Traumdeutung"].
1. Sigmund Freud
2. Karl Marx
3. Roland Emmerich
Invention: electromagnetic waves / radio transmitter mast in Passau (Kühberg)
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Aconcagua.
Who was the first person to broadcast and receive radio waves [die Übertragung elektromagnetischer Wellen von einem Sender zu einem Empfänger]? ... The scientific unit of frequency - cycles per second - was named in his honor.
1. Heinrich Hertz
2. Georg Simon Ohm
3. Hans Geiger
Invention: glider
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Richard Neuhauss (assumed), 1895, public domain
Who demonstrated the advantages of curved surfaces for wings [Tragfläche], and whose designs influenced the Wright brothers in the USA? He was also the inventor of the first practical glider [Segelflugzeug].
1. Otto Lilienthal
2. Johannes Kepler
3. Max Planck
4. Johann Philipp Reis
GE Tornado with ASSTA 3 tail
• Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Philipp Hayer.
Which Austrian scientist's name is used to measure the speed of an aircraft in relation to the speed of sound [Schallgeschwindigkeit]?
1. Ernst Mach
2. Wernher von Braun
3. Willy Messerschmitt
4. Carl Miele
Early wooden printing press, depicted in 1568
• Illustration: Wikimedia Commons / Jost Amman, public domain.
Who introduced mechanical movable-type printing (the printing press / Druckerpresse) to Europe, enabling the mass printing of books?
1. Johannes Gutenberg
2. Bastian Schweinsteiger
3. Rudolf Diesel

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