Not in Berlin, sorry!
You see?
PS: "flight"??? The turks invented flight???
PPS: "numbers"??? The turks invented the numbers???
PPS: "submarines"??? The turks invented submarines???
Do you have some links for that???
Google said something else:
The first submersible with reliable information on its construction was built in 1620 by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, a Dutchman in the service of James I of England.
for flight:
URLWe have Leonardo da Vinci, the Mongolfiers, George Cayley, Otto Lilienthal, Brothers Wright...but no turks!
It is speculated that the first known use of numbers dates back to around 30000 BC, bones or other artifacts have been discovered with marks cut into them which are often considered tally marks. The use of these tally marks have been suggested to be anything from counting elapsed time, such as numbers of days, or keeping records of amounts.
Tallying systems have no concept of place-value (such as in the currently used decimal notation), which limit its representation of large numbers and as such is often considered that this is the first kind of abstract system that would be used, and could be considered a Numeral System.
The first known system with place-value was the Mesopotamian base 60 system (ca. 3400 BC) and the earliest known base 10 system dates to 3100 BC in Egypt. [1]
for the water closet:
# circa 30th century BC: A primitive dual channel, fresh water and waste, toilet system was in use in the houses at Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland
# circa 26th century BC: Flush toilets were first used in the Indus Valley Civilization. The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro had a flush toilet in almost every house, attached to a sophisticated sewage system. [1]
# circa 18th century BC: Flush toilet constructed at Knossos on Minoan Crete[2]
# circa 15th century BC: Flush toilets used in the Minoan city of Akrotiri.
# 1st to 5th centuries AD: Flush toilets were used throughout the Roman Empire. Some examples include those at Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall in Britain. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the technology was lost in the West.
# 1596: Sir John Harington is said to have invented 'The Ajax', a forerunner to the modern flush toilet, for Elizabeth I of England, who wouldn't use the contraption because it made too much noise. His design was ridiculed in England, but was adopted in France under the name Angrez. The design had a flush valve to let water out of the tank, and a wash-down design to empty the bowl.
# 1738: A valve-type flush toilet was invented by J. F. Brondel.
- no turks either
Coffee is also not a turkish invention...it didn't even grow there to begin with!
But the mechanical clock is a turkish invention...
For the taste of european musicians I don't know...
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