There are a surprising number of inventions that have been created in Australia.
This list will be expanded on with confirmations, as and when I am able to confirm them:
- Anthrax One Dose Vaccine – 1918 – John McGarvie Smith.
- Aspro – 1916 – George Nicholas, Melbourne.
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometer – 1952 – Sir Alan Walsh, CSIRO
- Bionic Ear cochlear implant – – Professor Graeme Clark, The University of Melbourne
- Black Box Flight Recorder – 1958 – Dr David Warren, Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne.
- Cervical cancer vaccine – 1990 – Professor Ian Frazer, University of Queensland.
- Combine Harvester – 1882 – Hugh Victor McKay of Drummartin, Victoria
- Dim Sim – 1945 – Chinese chef William Wing Young created the Dim Sim for for his restaurant “Wing Lee”
- Dual Flush Toilet – 1982 – Bruce Thompson, Caroma Industries, South Australia .
- Electric Drill – 1889 – Arthur James Arnott, arrived in Melbourne in 1889 from Glasgow. He patented the world’s first electric drill on 20 August 1889 in Melbourne.
- Electronic Pacemaker – 1926 – Dr. Mark Lidwill, Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital.
- Garage Roller door – 1956 – B&D
- Google Maps – – Danish-Australian brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, Sydney.
- Rotary Clothes Line – 1920 – Gilbert Toyne’s ‘All-Metal Rotary Clothes Hoist‘, designed in 1912, was being manufactured and advertised in Australia.
- Hills Hoist – 1946 – Lance Hill made a low cost rotary clothesline.
- Inflatable Aircraft Escape Slide & Raft – 1965 – Jack Grant, Qantas
- Kiwi Shoe Polish – 1904 – William Ramsay and Hamilton McKellan, Melbourne.
- Latex Gloves – 1945 –
- Night and Day Contact Lenses – 1999 –
- Penicillin – – Howard Florey and team,
- Permanent Crease Trousers – 1957 – Dr Arthur Farnworth, CSIRO
- Plastic spectacle lenses – 1960 –
- Polymer Bank Notes – 1988 – CSIRO Australia created plastic banknotes
- Pre-paid Postage – 1838 – First adhesive postage stamp issued. World’s first stamped stationery solely intended for prepayment postage sold in Sydney.
- Refrigeration – 1850 – James Harrison, .
- SolarScan – – , Polartechnics Ltd, Sydney Melanoma Unit and CSIRO
- Spray-on-skin for burns victims – – Dr Fiona Wood.
- Two Stroke Lawn Mower – 1930 –
- Underwater torpedo – 1874 – Louis Brennan
- Xerox Photocopying technology – 1907 Professor O U Vonwiller, The University of Sydney.
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