>>13367501It was successful from early 19th century (especially chemistry!, look up Liebig and his mentor) on. I would even say parts of it lived on inside NASA until the 70s.
So first of all beginning with the 19th century, the whole of Middle Europe was freed from french authoritarian, religious government. So as a result systematic exploration of nature was possible, letting loose a wave of pent-up creative potential.
Germany has always been a battle-ground, so its people have alwasy been very conservative compared to french, scandinavians, mediteranians. Back then, when there where no big social institutions, a conservative, steady people was the prerequesit for advanced society (with advanced fields, like science, finance, law etc). I think this is why back then there were so many great inventors, entrepreneurs and scientists in Germany. Everything just worked because everyone had a no-bullshit attitude but there was also enough space given to the creatives to invent.
This set of an early, storng wave of Science that just became bigger and bigger until (as we know from Germans) everything collapsed within a second in 1945
