Aussie Inventions That Changed the World

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by prydey

I think Franco is having a little dig. He loves radelaide!

Had to google Stobie pole - I've driven around Adelaide heaps but never noticed the unique power pole infrastructure

As far as 'Fritz' my googling indicates it looks like Mortadella - mortadella haunts me from my childhood much like polenta

Was there a shortage of wood in SA? Walking around North Adelaide, all the fences and older houses looks like stone construction.

[ozpacman]

The 'Black Box' flight data recorder.

[Dr Terry]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Was there a shortage of wood in SA? Walking around North Adelaide, all the fences and older houses looks like stone construction.

I think Adelaide has a serious termite problem because of its climate. It may be an urban myth, I'm not sure.

Dr Terry

[BENT_8]

Its because as free settlers we could afford to build with stone unlike our eastern states convict folk who opted for the cheaper options.
Adelaide has a hot dry climate, pre A/C stone was used as climate control, these stone homes will have half a dozen fire places, certainly no wood shortages.

[prydey]

Fun fact... There is currently a global timber shortage.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

Its because as free settlers we could afford to build with stone unlike our eastern states convict folk who opted for the cheaper options.
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WTF are you talking about. Stone houses are everywhere up and down the Eastcoast.

[Sprintey]

Never knew the name, but those power poles were very distinct when we first drove in SA. We thought they'd run out of trees. Or no trees north of the Goyder line.

A bit like the first time driving on the Hume in NSW, and you wonder if they ran out of bitumen as the road goes 'bump bump bump' with their concrete sections. Then a highway patrol NSW XR6T goes past you at flat tack going 'bmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmp!'

[Sprintey]

The Coolgardie Safe.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Sprintey

A bit like the first time driving on the Hume in NSW, and you wonder if they ran out of bitumen as the road goes 'bump bump bump' with their concrete sections. Then a highway patrol NSW XR6T goes past you at flat tack going 'bmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmp!'

Love the downhill bit near Bowning where they couldn't get the concrete to lay flat and slag down on the bottom of each panel.
bmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmp, JJJJJJive talking.

[snap0964]

Bit surprised on a car forum this wasn't mentioned earlier:

Racecam, first appearing in the 1979 Bathurst 1000.

[BENT_8]

Originally Posted by roKWiz

WTF are you talking about. Stone houses are everywhere up and down the Eastcoast.

Im not saying there are no stone homes over your way, obviously some convicts did well from their trade, its just that us free settlers built everything out of stone until bricks became mainstream.
There are very few timber clad homes in Adelaide, apart from a few pockets here and there in the poorer outer suburbs.

[BENT_8]

Stump jump plough, designed by the Smith's on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula to enable cropping of mallee filled land, land that would become the worlds best cereal cropping belt.

[Franco Cozzo]

Did we invent the meat pie? That's pretty good if you ask me

[prydey]

i think most of the big ticket items that really did impact the world are all covered off in the TV series that is linked in the first post.

Black box flight recorder, penicillin, pacemaker, cochlear implant etc..

here's a quick google list of 20
https://www.australiangeographic.com...ged-the-world/

Do they teach australian history in schools? I'll have to ask my kids. Many of these things are really cool to be able to say they were invented right here in Aus. I wasn't even aware of many of them myself.

[Dr Terry]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

Im not saying there are no stone homes over your way, obviously some convicts did well from their trade, its just that us free settlers built everything out of stone until bricks became mainstream.
There are very few timber clad homes in Adelaide, apart from a few pockets here and there in the poorer outer suburbs.

I realise the "free settlers" comment is a bit tongue in cheek, but Adelaide wasn't established until the 1830s by which time there were far more free settlers in Sydney, than in Adelaide.

On that topic were there ever many convict settlers in Melbourne ? My understanding was that Melbourne was settled by explorers from Tasmania!!

Dr Terry

[Dr Terry]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Did we invent the meat pie? That's pretty good if you ask me

I believe that the meat pie itself was an English invention, but the Aussies invented the 'square' meat pie.

Dr Terry

[Dr Terry]

Originally Posted by prydey

i think most of the big ticket items that really did impact the world are all covered off in the TV series that is linked in the first post.

Black box flight recorder, penicillin, pacemaker, cochlear implant etc..

here's a quick google list of 20
https://www.australiangeographic.com...ged-the-world/

Do they teach australian history in schools? I'll have to ask my kids. Many of these things are really cool to be able to say they were invented right here in Aus. I wasn't even aware of many of them myself.

I hope that list is not in order of importance. They've put plastic bank notes & the electric drill ahead of WiFi !!

I knew about WiFi, I've actually met one of the inventors, but I had no idea that Google maps was based on an Aussie idea.

Dr Terry

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Dr Terry

I believe that the meat pie itself was an English invention, but the Aussies invented the 'square' meat pie.

Dr Terry

If I found myself in London, I'd be up for one of these meat pies with the jellied eels.

[hayseed]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Did we invent the meat pie? That's pretty good if you ask me

Nope, just the Chiko Roll..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kv0GV4_Ao8

[gutza]

Not sure .... the wine cask ? When you finished, you remove it from the box, blow it up and use as a pillow, before you flake out.

[foxtrot3]

Originally Posted by prydey

i think most of the big ticket items that really did impact the world are all covered off in the TV series that is linked in the first post.

Black box flight recorder, penicillin, pacemaker, cochlear implant etc..

here's a quick google list of 20
https://www.australiangeographic.com...ged-the-world/

Do they teach australian history in schools? I'll have to ask my kids. Many of these things are really cool to be able to say they were invented right here in Aus. I wasn't even aware of many of them myself.

Hi. A scot named Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, Florey (an aussie) who was at Oxford uni in england made the link to it to be used for medicine. Cheers MD

[prydey]

Originally Posted by foxtrot3

Hi. A scot named Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, Florey (an aussie) who was at Oxford uni in england made the link to it to be used for medicine. Cheers MD

Yes, should have been more specific but it was covered in the link.

[Bossxr8]

https://australianfoodtimeline.com.a...ration-system/

Doesn't get enough recognition for being a refrigeration pioneer.

[Franco Cozzo]

What about the mighty pie floater? That changed my world

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

What about the mighty pie floater? That changed my world

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

What about the mighty pie floater? That changed my world

You must have a very boring life if a “meat” pie has improved it

[Burnout]

Another one is the Bedourie Camp Oven, being spun steel, rather than Caste Iron. About 10% of the weight.
The Stockman's Poley Saddle is another.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

You must have a very boring life if a “meat” pie has improved it

Needs more vinegar to suit ethnic pallette

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by prydey

i think most of the big ticket items that really did impact the world are all covered off in the TV series that is linked in the first post.

Black box flight recorder, penicillin, pacemaker, cochlear implant etc..

here's a quick google list of 20
https://www.australiangeographic.com...ged-the-world/

Do they teach australian history in schools? I'll have to ask my kids. Many of these things are really cool to be able to say they were invented right here in Aus. I wasn't even aware of many of them myself.

7. Cochlear implant (bionic ear)

I was going to mention that previously, however a quick search in Wikipedia tells me it was invented much earlier by others:

André Djourno and Charles Eyriès invented the original cochlear implant in 1957. This original design distributed stimulation using a single channel. Two years later they went their separate ways due to personal and professional differences.[8]

William House also invented a cochlear implant in 1961.[9] In 1964, Blair Simmons and Robert J. White implanted a single-channel electrode in a patient's cochlea at Stanford University.[10] However, research indicated that these single-channel cochlear implants were of limited usefulness because they can not stimulate different areas of the cochlea at different times to allow differentiation between low and mid to high frequencies as required for detecting speech.[11]

NASA engineer Adam Kissiah started working in the mid-1970s on what could become the modern cochlear implant. Kissiah used his knowledge learned while working as an electronics instrumentation engineer at NASA. This work took place over 3 years, when Kissiah would spend his lunch breaks and evenings in Kennedy's technical library, studying the impact of engineering principles on the inner ear. In 1977, NASA helped Kissiah obtain a patent for the cochlear implant; Kissiah later sold the patent rights.[12]

The modern multi-channel cochlear implant was independently developed and commercialized by two separate teams—one led by Graeme Clark in Australia and another by Ingeborg Hochmair and her future husband, Erwin Hochmair in Austria, with the Hochmairs' device first implanted in a person in December 1977 and Clark's in August 1978.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant

If the above is correct, I wonder if it should be still considered an Aussie invention?

[mondeomatureguy]

Hi guys,
I have two.
1 The first one is Peter Holinger who made the gear boxs for the V8 Touring cars in the 80s and also exported those gear boxs also.

2nd. The Hills Hoist just about every back yard once had a Hills Hoist.