Discussion: Comparing British and German industries 1900-1940

Sorry, I didn't realise we could just make things up on this thread.

I think you'll find, if you check, that the production of purple hippopotami increased by over 79% in the UK between the years 1900 and 1927 and that by 1924 the UK was the largest supplier of purple hippopotami to mainland Europe, overtaking the previously unassailable position previously held by the Krupp Nilpferdwerk since the early 19th Century.
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i need to stop reading this
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Thomas1195

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Those are niche areas that superior British brands ignored as uneconomic - I mean how big was the market for electrical toasters in 1900...
Middle and upper class, also in prewar Germany, there was a large scale electrification of streets and factories unlike British sheds.
Besides, offices would prefer to have telephones and typewriters.

Germany also produced superior toys and small hardwares like bolts, tools, hammers, pliers, lock, watches, pencils,...that require precision. German papers and printing press were also superior, and also superior in sewing machines and furnitures.

You may search in google book, these info are only available in snippet views of things like the Engineer
 

Thomas1195

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strangely enough the many of the mosquito parts were built in "sheds".and we all know what a failure that was.
Well, the problem is that you cannot produce high quality precision instruments, electrical goods, electronics or chemical products in large scale in "sheds". Thats why Britain sucked in these sectors (except for chemical after ww1), especially before ww1
 
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Well, the problem is that you cannot produce precision instruments, electrical goods, electronics or chemical products in "sheds". Thats why Britain sucked in these sectors (except for chemical after ww1), especially before ww1
o.so if they didn t build them in sheds then where did they build them??
 

Thomas1195

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Electronics were developed before ww1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timel...43-1923:_From_electromechanics_to_electronics

It seems that you avoided discussing about precision instruments and electrical goods because German superiority in these things were undeniable.

And my argument was not limited to just pre ww1. After that Britain still lagged in these sectors.
you mean like in a cottage industry?????/where were these massive hi tech manufacturing plants?

o ya...cheery picking...you know.....
 

Thomas1195

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you mean like in a cottage industry?????/where were these massive hi tech manufacturing plants?

o ya...cheery picking...you know.....
The industries I mentioned were the most important post 1870 industries, or new industries.
Before ww1, electrical equipment and chemical were the most important
After ww1, electronic industry also emerged.
 
There was, actually, but it was more like a part of electrical industry, unlike after ww1. The first major electronic products were things like telephone, radio and vacuum tubes.
I think his point is that,
"Electronics is the science of controlling electrical energy electrically, in which the electrons have a fundamental role. Electronics deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes, integrated circuits, associated passive electrical components, and interconnection technologies. Commonly, electronic devices contain circuitry consisting primarily or exclusively of active semiconductors supplemented with passive elements; such a circuit is described as an electronic circuit." from Wiki.
Not sure that many (if any) pre WWI electrical devices can be considered electronic rather than electromechanical?
 

Thomas1195

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I think his point is that,
"Electronics is the science of controlling electrical energy electrically, in which the electrons have a fundamental role. Electronics deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes, integrated circuits, associated passive electrical components, and interconnection technologies. Commonly, electronic devices contain circuitry consisting primarily or exclusively of active semiconductors supplemented with passive elements; such a circuit is described as an electronic circuit."
Not sure that many (if any) pre WWI electrical devices can be considered electronic rather than electromechanical?
Like triode invented by Lee de Forest, yes

Even during interbellum, the German electronic industry was still superior
 

BooNZ

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Middle and upper class, also in prewar Germany, there was a large scale electrification of streets and factories unlike British sheds.
Besides, offices would prefer to have telephones and typewriters.
Germany had no meaningful middle class and the German population was dirt poor compared to the British, which happened to be Germany's biggest market for manufactured goods. The fact you keep banging on about the British deferring electrification, we can conclude the Germans would have sold few electrical goods - except perhaps to themselves. The vast majortiy of German exports during the period consisted of old technology including; sugar, steel, textiles and low quality consumer goods. There is one key German export in the 1920s you have failed to mention, which actually astounds me...
You may search in google book, these info are only available in snippet views of things like the Engineer
Do you think I am a pirate? Why do you repeatedly send everyone on vague treasure hunts to find some tenuous support for your arguments?
 

Thomas1195

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Germany had no meaningful middle class and the German population was dirt poor compared to the British, which happened to be Germany's biggest market for manufactured goods. The fact you keep banging on about the British deferring electrification, we can conclude the Germans would have sold few electrical goods - except perhaps to themselves. The vast majortiy of German exports during the period consisted of old technology including; sugar, steel, textiles and low quality consumer goods. There is one key German export in the 1920s you have failed to mention, which actually astounds me...

https://books.google.com.vn/books?i...e&q=german and british export in 1913&f=false
This link proves that you're wrong
 
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