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BIG Aussie Stuff
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Orange - Berri, SA
Marree Man - Outback, SA
Saddle - Picton, NSW
Gold Panner - Bathurst, NSW
Oyster - Taree, NSW
More Big Aussie things
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Oz World Records
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• most venomous jellyfish
• most arrows caught by hand
• largest sand island
• steepest railway line
• longest railroad straight
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Famous Australian Ideas and Innovations
You're going to be very surprised at some of the great inventions Australians have been responsible for...
Heck, we're even NOW responsible for turning dishwater and beer into electricity, AND running cars on nothing but water -- Find out more on Water Powered Cars here.
This page presents a variety of those for your perusal - please REFRESH to see a different selection of ten Aussie innovations.
To find out more, can I suggest you visit
The Power House Museum and Questacon
- Dr Arthur Farnworth of the CSIRO added a special resin to wool fibres in 1957 to change their chemical structure to create Permanent Crease Trousers.
- The Baby Safety Capsule was invented in 1983. Now, the Australian Standard for infant and child restraints is one of the most stringent in the world, demanding an extremely rigorous degree of protection.
- In Victoria, the first prototype of a solar water heating system was developed by the CSIRO in 1953
- The Wiltshire Staysharp Knife - a knife sheath which sharpens the knife each time it was withdrawn - was invented in 1965.
- Longtime household glove maker, Ansell, introduced disposable latex gloves for use in surgery in 1964.
- The first full-size rotary hoe cultivator was developed in 1922 and used energy to turn the soil directly, rather than dragging a plough behind a tractor.
- Penicillin was trialled successfully on humans by Howard Florey, and went into production in 1941 to help victims of World War II.
- In 1972 Dynamic Lifter - an organic fertiliser made from chook manure - was invented.
- The radio telescope in Parkes, NSW, received and relayed to the world pictures of the first moon landing in 1969
- John McGarvie Smith donated his secret discovery of an anthrax vaccine to the NSW Government in 1918.
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