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5 September, 2009 by landedunderclass

How would we manage without the Germans?

Who else would think of steel velcro?

Posted in Technology | Tagged steel velcro | 2 Comments

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on 8 September, 2009 at 12:09 pm | Reply David Davis

You are right. About the Germans I mean.

We cannot know, but they _also_ possibly came up with the seemingly revolutionary idea of sticking two wheels on a pre-medieval ploughshare and oxen-team. The evidence is disputable and it may have happened simultaneously, like within a century, in several places in NW Europe and Britain. (Just think of the advantages and the output-amplification-factor…)

I think they also discovered Aspirin. Invented the concept of Organic Chemistry. Oh and there was those chappies, Planck, Einstein, von Braun, you know, that lot.

But I don’t think they conceptualised gravity, saw cells first, spotted many new planets, built and quantised the power output of steam engines, constructed 40% of the world’s railways, had a very large Merchant Marine (they sank most of ours twice, using our inventions) or invented valves or transistors (Dr Schottky did improve the former very much though.)
on 28 September, 2009 at 1:09 pm | Reply David Davis

Dear OM#

Are you all right? It’s over three weeks now.

I’d be pleased to know that you are still going to continue to write.

73
M3LBG

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