Aussie Inventions!

[Spiff]

Yep, feature films definitely don't count. Filmmaking was around already, it's just that the Aussies were the first ones to actually make one long enough to be called a feature.

 

[JonBonJovi]

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.

It was actually an Australian "WOMAN" I can't remember her name of hand.

 

[JonBonJovi]

Well I got my list of an internaltional web site. Everything on that list was on the site.
Koich I mentioned The Notepad,Refrigeration and latex gloves.The boomerang is something that comes back the one you mention didn't actually come back to the thrower if it missed it's target.
If you are all gonna critisize what should count and what shouldn't take it up with the web sites that compile inventions.

 

[phlogiston]

It was actually an Australian "WOMAN" I can't remember her name of hand.

Was it Howard Walter Florey? Because he's the one that won the Nobel Prize for it. I'm pretty sure he wasn't a woman though.

http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1945/florey-bio.html

 

[spawn]

Hee hee, his last name is almost flowery *Giggle*

 

[JonBonJovi]

He worked out how to mass produce it but it was a woman who invented it.

 

[spawn]

Like babies then!

 

[JonBonJovi]

Here is your Florey and what he did.
It was not until 1939 that Dr. Howard Florey, a future Nobel Laureate, and three colleagues at Oxford University began intensive research and were able to demonstrate penicillin's ability to kill infectious bacteria. As the war with Germany continued to drain industrial and government resources, the British scientists could not produce the quantities of penicillin needed for clinical trials on humans and turned to the United States for help. They were quickly referred to the Peoria Lab where scientists were already working on fermentation methods to increase the growth rate of fungal cultures. One July 9, 1941, Howard Florey and Norman Heatley, Oxford University Scientists came to the U.S. with a small but valuable package containing a small amount of penicillin to begin work.

 

[Mark]

Yes, the woman was Mother Nature!

 

[JonBonJovi]

No Need to be synical.
I was told by the Head of Biology at Sydney University it was a woman who 1st discovered penicilin.
through lack of finding evidense via the net I will concede that it was a man who worked out how to produce it!
Stop with the Mother Nature bullshit!

 

[Shannow]

Nah, it was a woman who didn't wash the (petri) dishes that penecillin was discovered on !!

(I think).

(I run)



(just jokes)

 

[Goreripper]

Wasn't penicillin discovered growing on bread? I know it was Florey who worked out how to mass produce it, and I think that's the discovery that's usually considered to be the important one. Xena, post the link to the site where you found this list!

 

[Shannow]

Nah, penecillin was discovered as there was an area that was lacking bugs on apetri dish that was being used as a bug breeding ground.

As the area that was missing bugs appeared to be circular, there was believed to be some "anti-bug" thing in the middle.

 

[phlogiston]

Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming. It's what he did. It's what he's *KNOWN* for. He was a guy. Not a woman. A quick Google on Fleming *OR* penicillin will show you that. Or look it up in an encylopedia. Or any reference book at all.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin? She was a woman. But she wasn't Australian.

"Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Hodgkin used x-rays to find the structural layouts of atoms and the overall molecular shape of over 100 molecules including: penicillin, vitamin B-12, vitamin D, and insulin. Dorothy's discovery of the molecular layout of penicillin helped lead scientists to develop other antibiotics. "

 

[phlogiston]

Unless you're saying that a woman discovered it and Fleming just took credit for it. I'd believe that too.

 

[Shannow]

 

[Shannow]

Nope, looks like a typical blokey discovery to me

http://www.cronaca.com/archives/000660.html

Fleming’s hygiene standards would shock a modern hospital administrator. He liked to create what he called “germ paintings”, by using spores of pigmented bacteria to form brightly-coloured scenes, and would often leave culture dishes lying around unwashed for weeks. It was this very lack of order, of course, that proved fortunate.

On September 3, 1928, Fleming returned to the laboratory after a fortnight’s holiday and grudgingly decided to do some washing up. He noticed, however, that in one of the dishes the bacteria in the agar culture had been killed in a ring around a clump of mould. “That’s funny,” Fleming remarked — a typically understated response from a man of few words. He first called the substance “mould juice”, although it was soon renamed when he discovered that the bacteria-killing enzyme was from the Penicillium notatum strain. . .