I didn’t know they had some great inventions coming from Australia!!! Here is the list :
- Wi-fi
“John O’Sullivan, an astronomy and space science fellow at Melbourne’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is seen in his home country as the father of wi-fi.”
- Black Box Flight recorders
The famous “black box” is, in fact, coated with bright heat-resistant paint in order to be spotted easily after a plane crash.
“It is the work of an Australian chemist, Dave Warren, who believed that the dead could help unlock the mysteries of fatal accidents. In 1953, it was his brainwave to build a device that recorded voices from the cockpit as well as data from flight instruments.”
- Hills Clothes Hoist
“An archetypal, if not hackneyed, image of suburbia in one of the world’s most urbanised societies. The idea for a rotating “big metal tree” for drying laundry dates back to the late 19th Century and was patented by Gilbert Toyne, a blacksmith-turned-inventor, in Adelaide in 1926. But it is fellow south Australian Lance Hill who is best known for making these backyard marvels into household names.”
- Cochlear implant
“The bionic ear has brought the wonder of sound into the lives of thousands of people. For this, they must thank the persistence of Sydney doctor Graeme Clark.In 1967, he began to investigate ways to tap into the cochlea, the part of the ear that hears, with electrodes. His task seemed insurmountable - how could he squeeze 20 wires into the equivalent thickness of a needle?
Inspiration came while on holiday at the beach. Pushing a blade of grass into a seashell that looked like an inner ear provided the light bulb moment inventors crave.”
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- Dual-flush toilets (I always wondered what the little button was for!)
“As Australian as turning the tap off while you brush your teeth. In the world’s driest inhabited continent, water-saving measures are religiously embraced.The dual flush loo has two buttons to dispatch different amounts of water from the cistern - a half-flush for liquid waste and a full one for more heavy-duty deposits.
It was invented in the early 1980s by Bruce Thompson and is a ubiquitous feature in Australian bathrooms and in a growing number around the world.”
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