VW, Audi, Škoda, Fiat, Seat… Those are just some of the european car brands.
And then Siemens, CAF, Ansaldobreda, Alstom… all really important train manufacturers (apparently Škoda also makes trains, TIL)
Siemens is also a really big multinational that makes a lot of stuff, including industrial systems and bleeding edge science equipment and healthcare machinery.
Airbus is another massive company, which builds aircraft, spacecraft and it’s also a “defence” contractor (fuck Airbus)
Speaking about space, the ESA (European Space Agency) is one of the most important space agencies, and it has built and launched some really important satellites. It has also made science equipment and parts for many joint NASA-ESA missions, and it has even built some of the modules of the ISS. Among some of the cool things the ESA has done is the Galileo satellite constellation, that provides worldwide geopositioning at higher precision than the US-built GPS constellation. It also helped NASA build the first space telescope, and it provided some parts and equipment for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Some people mentioned the CERN before. A world class research project, that currently has plans to be expanded, and that was built in collaboration by many countries in the EU. It’s an impressive thing to research about.
Europe also has really good infrastructure, and it currently houses the world’s longest road tunnel, the world’s longest railway tunnel and the world’s longest foot/bike tunnel. It has one of the best rail networks in the world, and it also holds the 3rd, 4th and 5th place in train speed records (and it still holds first place in stock/unmodified train speed records, according to wikipedia)
It also has some really important semiconductor companies, like NXP, Infineon and STMicroelectronics. Even ASML, the company that manufactures the machines that make all of the chips used in the US (yes, even Nvidia’s, Intel’s and AMD’s chips) is a European company.
Europe also has some of the biggest telecoms, like Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica, and it’s home to some phone brands, like Fairphone.
As a honorable mention, Linus Torvalds, who initially made Linux, the system most of the US (and the world) runs on top of, is european.
VW, Audi, Škoda, Fiat, Seat… Those are just some of the european car brands.
And then Siemens, CAF, Ansaldobreda, Alstom… all really important train manufacturers (apparently Škoda also makes trains, TIL)
Siemens is also a really big multinational that makes a lot of stuff, including industrial systems and bleeding edge science equipment and healthcare machinery.
Airbus is another massive company, which builds aircraft, spacecraft and it’s also a “defence” contractor (fuck Airbus)
Speaking about space, the ESA (European Space Agency) is one of the most important space agencies, and it has built and launched some really important satellites. It has also made science equipment and parts for many joint NASA-ESA missions, and it has even built some of the modules of the ISS. Among some of the cool things the ESA has done is the Galileo satellite constellation, that provides worldwide geopositioning at higher precision than the US-built GPS constellation. It also helped NASA build the first space telescope, and it provided some parts and equipment for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Some people mentioned the CERN before. A world class research project, that currently has plans to be expanded, and that was built in collaboration by many countries in the EU. It’s an impressive thing to research about.
Europe also has really good infrastructure, and it currently houses the world’s longest road tunnel, the world’s longest railway tunnel and the world’s longest foot/bike tunnel. It has one of the best rail networks in the world, and it also holds the 3rd, 4th and 5th place in train speed records (and it still holds first place in stock/unmodified train speed records, according to wikipedia)
It also has some really important semiconductor companies, like NXP, Infineon and STMicroelectronics. Even ASML, the company that manufactures the machines that make all of the chips used in the US (yes, even Nvidia’s, Intel’s and AMD’s chips) is a European company.
Europe also has some of the biggest telecoms, like Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica, and it’s home to some phone brands, like Fairphone.
As a honorable mention, Linus Torvalds, who initially made Linux, the system most of the US (and the world) runs on top of, is european.