Transportation
- Modern automobile (gasoline engine) by Karl Benz in 1885.
- first electric passenger train by Siemens
- first regular electric tram service using pantographs or trolley poles, the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway by Siemens
- Otto engine by Nicolaus Otto
- Diesel engine by Rudolf Diesel
- Wankel engine by Felix Wankel
- Modern truck in 1896 by Gottlieb Daimler
- Zeppelin (a type of rigid airship) by Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1893.
- Rocket-powered aircraft by Fritz Stamer in 1928.
- Air bag by Walter Linderer
- World's first practical all-metal aircraft: Junkers J 1
- Jerrycan
- Gyrocompass by Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
- Defogger by Heinz Kunert
- Krueger flap by Werner Krüger
- Taximeter by Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn
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