Aussie Inventions!

[JonBonJovi]

In the spirit of talking on other thread about Aussie Inventions, I have compiled a list of some of the inventions.

Bionic Ear
Flexible Wine Cask
The Boomerang
Notepad
Electric Drill
Postage Stamps
Black Box Recorder
Inflatable Air Craft Slide
Two Stroke Mower
Rotary Hoist
Latex Gloves
Lithium to treat Manic Depression
Combine Harveter
Stump-jump plough
The Sarich Engine
Wave Piercing Catamaran
The 'Diff'
The 'Ute'
Premix cement truck
Telephone
The Record Changer
$50 note
Plastic Bank Notes
Vegemite
Secret Ballot
Electronic Pace Maker
Penicilan
Asro
IVF
Calyx Drill
Thrust Bearing
Feature Film
Race Cam

 

[Shannow]

The Vanadium Redox Battery.

 

[Shannow]

Oh, and the concept of "Core" and "Non-Core" promises, but that's not really an invention.

 

[plattopus]

Me.

 

[Sydo]

We rock!

 

[Mark]

Australians invented the postage stamp? Well I never...

 

[spawn]

I dont think the $50 note is an invention! If I built a plane and painted it bright red I wouldnt get credited with a new invention!

 

[Spiff]

The Olgas.

 

[Mark]

Spawn: was there a $50 in the world before there was one in Oz?

 

[Goreripper]

No. There wasn't. Therefore, it was an Aussie invention. Don't know about the telephone though...

 

[Southy]

Beer in Largie form...if it wasnt an Aussie inventiopn, then poo....

 

[KoichCPA]

We didn't invent the boomerang.

There is evidence of it in egypt before there is evidence of it here.

Also, we invented The Torrens Title. Which was the worlds first method of land registration.

and The notepad, The first refrigerator,latex gloves and the torpedo.

 

[KoichCPA]

oh oh, and the paper machine gun belt which stopped the bastards of things from jamming every 10 seconds, making us even more efficient killing machines.

 

[plattopus]

Yeah, because everyone knows Australia is always at the forefront when it comes to military power.

 

[spawn]

Its not an invention to slap a different number on an already existing note.

 

[Goreripper]

The scalloped-neck and seven-string guitar are inventions, are they not? Therefore, coming up with the idea of a $50 note is also an invention.

 

[phlogiston]

I'm with spawn on this one. An invention is a non-obvious solution to a problem. Otherwise it's just evolution. It's not like they spent days and days trying to figure out how they were going to represent a higher monetary figure than they had.

The *original* banknote was an invention. Everything following that was evolution.

 

[spawn]

So when someone puts out a Michael Jordan top with the number 50 on it, thats a new invention?

 

[phlogiston]

I'm also calling into question Penicillin. The original guy who found it but whose work was totally ignored was French, and Fleming was Scottish. However it was an Australian (Howard Walter Florey) working at Oxford who discovered a method of mass producing it.

And as discussed in previous threads, discoveries aren't inventions anyway.

 

[phlogiston]

And Feature Films don't count, either.