Wundertechnologie

Mind over Matter, Philosophy vs Technology, Electronics vs Mechanics, Colossus vs Mammut, David vs Goliath, ninja vs samurai, thieves vs people, etc.

At the beginning of the past century Tesla invented most everything related to use of electricity. AC for production and transport of energy. Radio for communications. Large antennas for manipulating ionosphere. There was enough advancements in metallurgy, machine tools and electronic tubes as building blocks for his inventions.

However it wasn't until WWII that some of the most sophisticated machines known to (some) humans came to reality, made by his inventions and motivation for winning the war. Saying some because most people living today on the planet do not understand and never will how the devices they are using work, starting with cars and ending with TVs and phones. It was the war that squeezed out of the mind of people everything we see and use and buy today.

Computers. One of the world's first computer, that only a few people knew about and was kept secret for 30 years after the war was Colossus. Built with electronic tubes, it was capable of deciphering Germans' transmission encrypted and decrypted using a mechanical device based on advanced math. One single mistake of a German operator lead to transmission of a message twice without changing the cypher, that lead to possibility of British scientists to build a computer that was able to decipher in a matter of hours all messages transmitted with that type of machines.

One can only imagine the tactical advantage given by that capability. That computer, instead of RAM or FLASH or whatever memory we know of (by size only, unfortunately) used paper tape and instead of oct-ocore processors with millions of transistors used a few thousand vacuum tubes and could do that task only. However, my educated suspicion is that was not the real stream of information. Given the secrecy, it might have even not existed and its revealing after 30 years is only a late justification of why Germans with their superiority on all levels (except for realizing where they were lead to), lost the war, and quickly. The real stream of information was flowing at the top level of state politicians which were all of the same origin, all fake, in all countries. War might have been only a huge motivator to develop new technologies, and also means to reduce the number of more advanced people living in Europe, using their own mind-set momentum and technology.

Jet engines. Towards the end of the war Germans also developed first jet engines. Unlike reciprocating internal combustion engines (like those in our cars) and using propellers, the jet engine is mainly a rotary (turbo) compressor having a number of fans for allowing rare air at high altitudes to be compressed at concentrations enough to burn the injected fuel. The result of burning, mainly water vapors and carbon dioxide will exit the jet engine at speeds and momenta times higher that a propeller could provide. Thus, they made possible speeds several times greater, exceeding the speed of sound, more than once.

Phased array radars. Also first implemented by Germans, also towards the end of the war, "when they could not make a difference anymore", they are a type of radars that used static antennas and electronic beam steering. Technology used in today's fighter plane radars, ultrasound medical devices and 5G. The Germans instead nowadays are buying them from the Chinese and Fins (closest to Hungarians or so the say).

Stealth bomber. Made of wood with a wing shape and special paint for low radar profile.