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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by ZenoArrow on Monday October 13, 2014 @04:27PM (#8450458)
"American products were inferior to German-Austrian-Swizzerland ones"

Got some examples? Cars are a given, but I couldn't think of any others where the difference was that pronounced.

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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by WalterBright on Monday October 13, 2014 @04:33PM (#8450494)
Airplanes, aviation engines, jet engines, rockets
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by leoc on Monday October 13, 2014 @04:37PM (#8450514)
Optics too, I think. The superiority of German optics was a big deal in WWII, though I'm not certain how they compared specifically to US products.
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by junto on Monday October 13, 2014 @05:32PM (#8450798)
Karl Zeiss is still a big name in optics: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by leoc on Monday October 13, 2014 @06:05PM (#8450935)
Yes, and not just them: http://www.gtai.de/GTAI/Content/EN/Invest/_SharedDocs/Downlo... It's definitely still an area of strength for Germany.
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by commandar on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @03:22AM (#8452308)
On the other hand, German bombing sights were vastly inferior to what was available to the Allies, leading Germany to adopt a dive-bombing doctrine that lead to vastly inferior heavy bombers.
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by ZenoArrow on Monday October 13, 2014 @04:37PM (#8450516)
Are you talking about pre-WW2 or post-WW2?
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science by WalterBright on Monday October 13, 2014 @05:35PM (#8450809)
pre-WW2
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