Stuttgart is the capital of inventors. The reason: Necessity is the mother of invention – and the area has always been poor in natural resources. Here is not only the cradle of the fast running petrol engine by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, the steam plough by Max Eyth and the air ship by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. In 1895 was also invented the lever arch file by Leitz. The electric hand held drill of the W.E. workshop. Effervescent lemonade powder is from Stuttgart-Cannstatt, invented by Theodor Beltle in 1925. The invention of the office photocopier by Dr. Walter Eisbein in 1948 in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen led to the creation of the company Develop.
 
Furthermore:

• first bra
• first calculation machine around 1623
• the unimog
• the VW beetle
• first watchdog control watch in the world
• first time-punch machine in the world
• first left-left knitting machine in the world
• first solar air ship in the world
• first solar motor boat in the world
• first radio receptor in the world
• first portable radio in the world
• first machine gun

Further inventors from the region:
Matthäus Hahn – built sun dials, telescopes, megaphones. Inventions: first slanting scales in the world, first astronomic machine, first calculation machine, first 14 digit calculation machine in the world. 
Johann Samson Wilhelm Mayer - first phosphor matches in the world, electric lighter.
Jakob Friedrich Kammerer - watertight boots, lighting machines.
Friedrich Wilhelm Märklin - first and largest toy factory in the world, inventor of various toys, known through the Märklin toy trains.
Heinrich Voelter - first wood pulp grinder in the world, first paper machine, first mechanical wood pulp machine in the world which was awarded a gold medal in Paris in 1867, newspaper rotation machine, first wood pulp paper in the world.
Matthias Hohner - refinement of harmonicas, first application of machines to build harmonicas.
Karl Ehmann - water supply system
Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach - first motorbike in the world, first motorised tramway in the world, first motor boat in the world, first air ship in the world, first motorised horse carriage in the world (precursor of the car of today), first motorised track vehicle in the world, first articulated lorry in the world, first bus and motorised taxi in the world, first injection carburettor in the world, first functional four-stroke-engine by Maybach (Otto left the further development to Maybach), smallest motor boat in the world with a Daimler one-cylinder engine, first V-engine in the world, first motorised taxi enterprise, first motorised war vehicle in the world. 
Max Eyth - foundation of the DLG (Deutsche landwirtschaftliche Gesellschaft) in Berlin, built steam ploughs.
Ferdinand von Zeppelin - first controllable rigid airship in the world, later the Zeppelin air ship with Daimler engines.
Wilhelm Emil Fein - first electric drill in the world, first telephone with horseshoe magnet, first portable telephone for the military, fire alarm apparatus, anti-burglary alarm systems, electric bathtub for medicinal purposes, electric igniter, electric alarm system for morgues against apparent death, first installation of fire telegraphs in Nürnberg, shortly after in Stuttgart, first electric coffee machine in the world.
Margarete Steiff - first elephants made out of  wool felt in the world, first teddy in the world by nephew Richard Steiff, further soft toys.
Albert Hirth (350 inventions) and his sons Hellmuth and Wolf Hirth - first adjustable drawing table in the world, first electric bell-ringing in the world, first motor glider in the world, first sail plane which went into mass production, first crank shaft in the world.
Robert Bosch, Gottlob Honold – many thousand inventions for the automotive industry such as ABS, windscreen wipers, first sparkplug in the world, first starter in the world, first electric tools with the engine in the handle, first refrigerator in the world.
Wilhelm Maier, Adolf Remshardt – first solar-powered engine in the world, first transistor in the world, first solar cell in the world, and many more
Claude Dornier – first large capacity airplane in the world , first postal airplane in the world.
Ernst Heinkel – built the fastest transport airplane in the world for Lufthansa, first rocket-propelled airplane in the world, developed more than 500 types of airplanes.
Artur Fischer (back then over 4.500 inventions) first nylon-cylinder in the world, first wall plug in the world, first photo flash in the world.
Reinhard Koenig-Fachsenfeld -  one of the fathers of aerodynamics, especially regarding the automobile. He examined amongst others BMW and improved the cars’ aerodynamic. 
Johann Georg Elser – invented the first parking lifting platform. Also became famous because of his assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. He built a bomb and hid it in a Munich civil brewery cellar. On the 08.11.1938 he drove to Munich to attend the yearly traditional meeting of the National Socialists who met in the brewery cellar to remember the failed  coup of 1923. He inspected the location and chose the pillar behind the lectern for his home-made bomb. He got himself locked in 30-35 times in order to prepare the cellar at night. On the evening that Hitler was in attendance, he decided to go to Munich after all. At the border near Konstanz he was arrested by two officers. Hitker had to leave 15 minutes eralier that night and so the bomb missed its target.
Casimir Bumiller – invented the clothes peg and the corresponding machines to produce them.
Julius Robert Mayer – he was first to determine the mechanical equivalent of warmth. 
Maria Gräfin von Linden – first woman in Germany to earn a PhD, so the first female professor in Germany. She gave her seam and surgical dressing material invention to the Paul Hartmann company in Swabia which was also the first bandage factory in Germany.
Josef Hack – first glasses with wipers in the world, first camera squirting water.
Louis Leitz "world-renowned Leitz lever arch file"
Conrad Dietrich Magirus – founded the German fire brigade association, made his inventions in the fire brigade area.
First Western German in space was a Swabian: Ulf Merbold, and later also Ernst Messerschmid.