This museum is similar to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago but the exhibits are is less involving and more staid. Still, there is definitely such a thing as “German Technology” and some prime examples are there to appreciate. I have chosen three examples of WWII tech because each alone were significant enough had they been developed slightly earlier, and/or their manufacturing plants had not been destroyed by Allied bombing, we might all today be speaking German instead of English. Or, at least those of us Aryan enough to still be around. You think of these things in Munich, which was the city where Nazism came into its own. 



Depicted are the Messerschmitt  Me 262, the first production jet fighter (flew twice as fast as the Allied propeller planes), the V1 buzz bomb–a loud cruise missile used to bombard London from Germany, and the spectacular V2–the first ballistic missile. The V2 flew faster than sound, so that the bomb actually hit and exploded before one heard it coming. In other words, if you heard the rocket, you knew you were still alive.

But, there are other examples of German tech at the museum that are more uplifting. Bayer developed aspirin (the name actually was a trademark). Gutenberg’s printing press was not kept for posterity, but is in facsimile. And how can one not love the pidgeon cam?

And, lastly, for those of you who know me well: