This presentation was given at seminare with the Group for Technology Studies at VTT, Espoo, Finland.

1. About The Rich, The Famous and The Beautiful: German Inventors by Bernd Ebersberger Dec. 2002

3. Movable type printing J. Gutenberg 1440

4. Alcohol thermometer D. G. Fahrenheit 1709

5. Geissler flourescent tube Heinrich Geissler 1850

6. Dynamo generator Werner von Siemens 1867

7. Ammonia refrigerator Karl von Linde 1876

8. 4-stroke internal combustion engine Nikolaus August Otto 1877

9. Nipkow scanning disk Paul Nipkow 1884

10. Automobile Karl Benz / Gottlieb Daimler 1885

11. Diesel engine Rudolf Diesel 1885

12. Electro magnetic waves Heinrich R. Hertz 1888

13. X-ray Willhelm C. Röntgen 1895

14. Glider Otto Lilienthal 1896

15. Cathode-ray tube Karl Ferdinand Braun 1897

16. Aspirin Felix Hoffmann 1899

17. Rigid airship Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1900

18. Athletic shoe Adi Dassler 1920

19. Z1 - Z4 computers Konrad Zuse 1945

20. Rotary cylinder engine Felix Wankel 1954

24. Hedy Lamarr (1913 - 2000)