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Name something the Germans invented without googling (sh.itjust.works)
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[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As far as the story goes, the meat-in-a-bun concept was taken by sailors from Hamburg to the USA, where it was tweaked for local preferences and then called a hamburger. So the Germans invented it, USA marketed it.

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So they

  1. Applied previous knowledge
  2. Created something observed to be new
  3. Named it

And that doesn't count? What's the definition of inventing something? If I create a new flavor of bread, does it not count because flour was already invented?