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Name something the Germans invented without googling
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Gutenberg printing press
The Chinese invented movable type printing presses ~500 years before Gutenberg. The process was refined in Korea after that and made its way west. Gutenberg likely adapted and popularized the existing processes into the western industrialization movement.
That's why I specified the Gutenberg printing press, which is distinct from previous ones. I did not say they invented printing...
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The Disk of Phaistos was printed with stamps (movable type) between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C. according to Yves Duhoux. Predating the Chinese by millennia.
Don't say that too loud, you shatter the western / white superiority complex. :<