The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.

Brewers of modern dopplebocks often add "- ator " to their beer's name as a signpost of the style ; there are 200 "- ator " doppelbock names registered with the German patent office.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

Early developments of the integrated circuit go back to 1949, when the German engineer Werner Jacobi ( Siemens AG ) filed a patent for an integrated-circuit-like semiconductor amplifying device showing five transistors on a common substrate in a 2-stage amplifier arrangement.

The primary technology is based on the so-called " Bosch process ", named after the German company Robert Bosch, which filed the original patent, where two different gas compositions alternate in the reactor.

The concept of a " picture element " dates to the earliest days of television, for example as " Bildpunkt " ( the German word for pixel, literally ' picture point ') in the 1888 German patent of Paul Nipkow.

The world's first patent for an underwater echo ranging device was filed at the British Patent Office by English meteorologist Lewis Richardson a month after the sinking of the Titanic, and a German physicist Alexander Behm obtained a patent for an echo sounder in 1913.

* April 3 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his single-cylinder water-cooled engine design.

* 1886 – 1887: Carl Gassner of Mainz, German Empire receives a patent for a zinc-carbon battery, among the earliest examples of dry cell batteries.

By 1886, the German Gustav Bloem of Düsseldorf, Germany had obtained a U. S. patent for hemispherical cavity metal detonators to concentrate the effect of the explosion in an axial direction.

German immigrant engineer Hermann Bogenschild filed a patent in 1906 for a mechanical " dust removing apparatus ".

The celebration of the alleged Norwegian origin of the paper clip culminated in 1999, one hundred years after Vaaler submitted his application for a German patent.

In Europe, the German supplies company which came to be known as Pelikan and was started in 1838, first introduced their pen in 1929, based upon the acquisition of patents for solid-ink fountain pens from the factory of Slavoljub Penkala from Croatia ( patented 1907, in mass production since 1911 ), and the patent of the Hungarian Theodor Kovacs for the modern piston filler by 1925.

** Orange-Book-Standard, a decision, named after the Compact Disc standard, issued in 2009 by the German Federal Court of Justice on the interaction between patent law and standards

In 1914, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt was granted German patent 309, 536 for his sound-on-film work ; that same year, he apparently demonstrated a film made with the process to an audience of scientists in Berlin.

In 1942, during the German occupation of France, the patent was held by the Bernard Piel Company ( Établissements Bernard Piel ).

The texts are being recorded from Sanskrit, Urdu, Persian and Arabic ; made available to patent offices in English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish.

It is named after Melitta Bentz ( 1873 – 1950 ) who founded the company after she invented the drip brew paper coffee filter ( German patent granted July 8, 1908 ).

This is probably a reference to German patent No. 384071 " Rollfilmkamera " granted to Ernst Leitz, Optische Werke in Wetzlar, on 3 November 1923.

Vaaler designed a kind of paper clip in 1899 and applied for a German patent on November 12 of that year.

In Germany, in the case Logikverifikation ( 13 December 1999 ), the German Federal Court ( German: Bundesgerichtshof or BGH ) ruled on a case involving a national patent application claiming a computer-implemented invention, namely a " method for hierarchical logic verification of highly-integrated circuits ".

Both Catalina and Sunderland aircraft were flown during the course of World War II in search of Japanese and German submarines and surface raiders.

During the 1960s and 1970s German mathematician Heinrich Heesch developed methods of using computers to search for a proof.

Many German veterans felt disconnected from civilian life, and joined a Freikorps in search of stability within a military structure.

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Princess Dagmar and her ill-fated fiance Tsarevich Nicholas. The marriage of Princess Dagmar of Denmark to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovitch. The Anichkov Palace in 1862. The rise of Slavophile ideology in the Russian Empire led Alexander II of Russia to search for a bride for the heir apparent, Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Russia, in countries other than the German states that had traditionally provided consorts for the tsars.

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Surfacing, Tyler and his men search for survivors and find two: Eddie the cook from the S-33 and a German sailor claiming to be an electrician, but who is actually the Captain of U-571.

In West Germany, the search for democratic traditions in German history also lead to a more diversified picture of him in the 1970s.

After the Battle of Menin Road the German defensive system was changed, beginning an increasingly desperate search for expedients, to counter the inexorable British advance.

In latter years, it has been a resort for the German jet set and tourists in search of occasional celebrity sighting.

* Appollo ( dog ), a German Shepherd search and rescue dog, 1992 – 2006

The search for the author of the Nibelungenlied in German studies has a long and intense history.

There was no police search for the mayor, Marian Karolak, who had vanished, and no effort to name the German units present at the time.

Ratzel's writings coincided with the growth of German industrialism after the Franco-Prussian war and the subsequent search for markets that brought it into competition with Britain.

In the German state of Saxony, the search concluded with an eventual discovery in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus that produced a hard, white, translucent type of porcelain specimen with a combination of ingredients, including kaolin clay and alabaster, mined from a Saxon mine in Colditz.

The foundational crisis of mathematics ( in German: Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik ) was the early 20th century's term for the search for proper foundations of mathematics.

Eventually, recognising the German squadron's potential for commerce raiding in the Pacific the British Admiralty belatedly made its elimination a high priority but concentrated the search in the western Pacific after Spee's squadron bombarded Papeete.

The German battlecruisers Moltke and Von der Tann left the Jade at 14: 10 and began a cautious search for other ships.

In November 2002, German customs officers at the Swiss-German border performed a routine search of Johnson's car.

In search of materials for this purpose, Pertz made a prolonged tour through Germany and Italy, and on his return in 1823 Stein entrusted him with the principal charge of the publication of the series Monumenta Germaniae Historica, texts of all the more important historical writers on German affairs down to the year 1500, as well as of laws, imperial and regal archives, and other valuable documents, such as letters, falling within this period.

" A little powder and a little drink on the way, and I'd pass their ( German ) posts and wink and say, ' Do you want to search me?

However, on August 12, 1944, the German search for the culprits behind the rebellion reached Szpilman ’ s building.

Many species search for prey such as grubs by " open-bill probing ", that is, forcefully opening the bill after inserting it into a crevice, thus expanding the hole and exposing the prey ; this behavior is referred to by the German verb zirkeln ( pronounced ).