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Austrian inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented or discovered partially or entirely by a person born in Austria. In some cases, their Austrianess is determined by the fact that they were born in Austria, of non-Austrian people working in the country. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called " inventions", and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.

The following is a list of inventions or discoveries generally believed to be Austrian:

Astronomy

• Cosmic ray, discovery by Victor Francis Hess (nobel prize)

Chemistry

• Alkaline battery by Karl Kordesch jointly co-inventor (together with Canadian Lewis Urry)

• Cori cycle by Carl Cori and Gerti Cori
• Soman by Richard Kuhn (nobel prize), works on carotenoids and vitamins

Cuisine

• Kaiserschmarrn
• Mozartkugel by Paul Fürst

• Sachertorte by Franz Sacher
• Salzburger Nockerl

Geology

• Continent Gondwana by Eduard Suess
• Tethys Ocean by Eduard Suess

Information technology

• Drum memory by Gustav Tauschek
• Printed circuit board by Paul Eisler

Media, Film and Television

• Slow motion by August Musger

Medicine

• Main blood groups by Karl Landsteiner (nobel prize) co-discovered with Alexander S. Wiener
• Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
• Rhesus factor by Karl Landsteiner
• polio virus. co-discovered by Karl Landsteiner (with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper)
• Hand disinfection/ washing hands by Ignaz Semmelweis
• Aspergers Syndrome (Hans Asperger)

Military

• Blow forward ( Steyr Mannlicher M1894)
• Glock, A brand of polymer-frame semi-automatic pistols
• Salvator Dormus, first patented semi-automatic pistol
• AUG type automatic weapons: Aug A1, Aug Hbar, Aug A2, Aug A3, somewhat famous Austrian rifles, Low recoil + good accuracy.

Physics

• Density functional theory by Walter Kohn (1998 nobel prize of Chemistry)
• Schrödinger equation by Erwin Schrödinger
• Pauli exclusion principle by Wolfgang Pauli

Toys

• Altekruse Puzzle by Wilhelm Altekruse
• Snow globe by Erwin Perzy ^[1]

Transportation

• Giesl ejector by Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen
• Internal combustion engine by Siegfried Marcus
• Kaplan turbine by Viktor Kaplan
• Rumpler Tropfenwagen by Edmund Rumpler
• Valier-Heylandt Rak 7 by Max Valier

Miscellaneous

• The Turk, a chess-playing automaton and Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine by Wolfgang von Kempelen

See also

• English inventions and discoveries
• Science in Medieval Western Europe
• German inventions and discoveries
• American inventions and discoveries

References