The Power Board (Power Strip in the US) is another Aussie invention. Most of our biggest “Home consumption” inventions has come from an almost universally genetic trait… The Australian idea of working smarter not harder (sometimes also called being lazy). Give us a situation where something is too long, too complicated, too unpleasant (ie weather) and we will find a way of making it better… The Hills Hoist clothesline, the lawn mower, the Ute (or as you call it the pick up truck)… all came about because we wanted to spend more time on the things we enjoy doing rather than the stuff we have to do :D
The power board or power strip invented by Kambrook was the biggest corporate stuff up there could be because they were more interested in sales than copyright so their design was never copyrighted and every other company that now makes power boards doesn't have to make royalty payments to Kambrook.
Working Smarter isnt Lazy. Lazy is not putting any thought into a task, doing it poorly and hoping that you don't have to do the task again. Which backfires because the Boss didnt like the results. Working Smarter is efficient.
@@RivynPlays well certainly the bbq tool that is now sold, the one that looks like a concrete trowel with one saw edge was invented by a guy at Roma in the 80’s he showed me the prototype he had made out of an old crosscut saw
An Aussie invented the rotary lawn mower which was an improvement on existing mowers. Cask wine and Eskys, which everyone has, came from Aus too. There are more but it's too hot to think.
There’s a list of 60 Australian inventions if u do a google search, they aren’t on RUclips. Someone, not me lol, should put them all on RUclips. But people still argue, some were previous, but we perfected what we use today - like the wifi we use now
Also the Jaws Of Life for cutting open mangled vehicle wrecks to get to, and give life saving treatment to victims faster, also remove and get them into ambulance fixed equipment faster and ultimately to hospital faster. This is why there are so many horrific looking accidents happening today with people wondering how victims involved managed to survive. Making seatbelts retractable was another invention. I remember as a primary school kid in the 60's, there being a lot of adopted kids due to both parents being killed in car accidents while they were being baby sat by another person. Firstly due to no seatbelts at all, later due to plain non retractable seatbelts not able to automatically pull in and hold the body from slapping and whipping about in the seat with such deadly force. Also fire proof suits worn under racing uniforms is another Oz invention that has people wondering how racing car drivers escape the inferno of a crashed car alive.
How about the skin that is grown in a lab for burn victims! That is a major invention that has and will help many burn victims, or the invention that has helped so many hear!
A couple of years ago, I was asked by a local school to tabulate a list of Australian inventions. What I found, was surprising. This just a part of what I found :- 1838: Prepaid postage 1851: Refrigerator 1856: Secret Ballot voting 1859: Photolithography 1874: Underwater torpedo 1876: Stump-jump plough 1877: Mechanical sheep clippers 1889: Electric drill 1894: Powered (non manned) flight 1902: Paper notepads 1905: Thrust Bearings 1906: First full feature-length movie 1906: Shoe polish 1907: Xerox photocopying 1910: Concrete water pipes 1911: Army tank 1911: Outdoor rotary clothes hoist 1912: Surf ski 1912: Self-propelled rotary hoe 1917: Flying doctor service (air ambulance) 1919: Non-perishable anthrax vaccine 1924: Car radios 1927: Pedal powered two-way radios 1928: Heart pacemaker 1929: Starting blocks for competitive foot racing 1930: Postal letter sorting machine 1930: Movie clapperboard 1934: Braille Printing Press 1937: Portable Cabinet Respirator (iron lung) 1938: Polocrosse 1940: Zinc cream (white sun block) 1943: The Splayd (a combination of a knife, fork and spoon) 1945: Latex gloves 1946: Castor wheels 1952: Two stroke powered lawn mower 1958: Black box flight recorder 1960: Plastic eyeglass lenses 1960: Self constructing tower crane 1961: Ultrasound scanner 1965: Wine cask box 1965: Aircraft Inflatable escape slide 1971: Variable rack and pinion steering 1971: Microwave landing system for aircraft 1972: Electrical power outlet strip 1972: Orbital car engine 1975: Instant boiling water heater 1978: Cochlear implants 1979: Fairlight computer musical instrument digital sampler (MIDI) 1979: In-car Racecam 1980: Dual flush toilet 1981: CPAP breathing mask for sleep apnea sufferers 1984: Automotive Baby Safety Capsule 1984: In vitro fertilisation 1985: Bronchitis vaccine 1988: Polymer (plastic) banknotes 1990: Spray on skin (for burn victims) 1992: Wi-Fi 1992: Multi-focal contact lens 1992: Computer software product activation 2003: Google Maps
we also invented the term Petrichor which describes a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather:
Mind blowing! My nephew just invented the "Kelly clip" for scaffolding, which will 100% prevent cheap/inferior scaffolding being used all round Australia 🇦🇺 I'm not a builder, but apparently it's a big deal re safety!
@@Dallas-Nyberg probably less known but true is the first commercially available GPS guidance system for Agricultural machinery, developed by a Goondiwindi farmer Beeline Technologies “Rev C” was a great success and its “Navigator” was the standard worldwide throughout the 2000’s
Australia has a government funded research centre called the CSIRO. it does research into everything and also helps Australian inventor's to develop their inventions. It does receive extra funding from private donors and proceeds from the inventions it created or helped to create.
They forgot to mention this little lifesaving device: The Humidicrib - late 1930s The Humidicrib is a lightweight, portable and inexpensive alternative to the iron lung made from plywood, and was invented and manufactured by Tasmanian brothers Edward and Don Both in the late 1930s. Also the humble lawnmower: The Victa lawnmower story began in a shed in Sydney, back in 1952, with a peach can, billycart wheels and a few scraps of metal. Victa Mowers is now a multi-million dollar industry exporting to 30 countries around the world. The Victa mower was developed by Mervyn Victor Richardson, in August 1952.
The point about Google Maps is that the Aussie invention was the first electronic map system for general use. It was a big way to use electronic devices. All the others copied what Google developed from the Aussie system. It may seem normal to you but it was a massive change when it happened, as all major inventions are. They change the world from Before - to - After. (I was going to use Before X but now that means Twitter. Lol.)
I was watching the broadcast of the car race when the first "race-cam" was used. It was very glitchy and kept cutting out but still, gave us a viewpoint that we'd never seen before and was therefore amazing.
And don’t forget StumpCam, a camera & recorder attached to the wicket stump in cricket. Once the mind accepts the possibilities, inventions take their own trajectories into all aspects of life.
I was watching it too when it came out. He was tailgating coming into the esses when the brake lights on the car in front came on. I grabbed the arms of the chair and pushed back with my legs bracing in case of impact.
My father was one of the very first to have this done. We lived in Melbourne. He had severe nausea for a long time and often described it as the worst experience (as a long-term thing) he had ever experienced... and he was felling trees I the bush to provide for his 12 siblings and widowed mum when he was 12. Living completely off the land and driving log trucks and dozers at 14 with his 18-year-old brother before he left for the war and never saw again. Strong man. I saw him huddled in the corner as he went through constant "the room is spinning" moments 😢. In the end it was good, but it is much better nowadays. Breakthrough invention 😊
@@logic.and.reasoning Back in the 1970's my mum knew and elderly couple where the 87 year old lady and her 91 year old boyfriend would go to Parramatta in NSW. He was deaf and couldn't stand the sounds of the traffic so he'd switch his hearing aids off. If she wanted to go somewhere in Parramatta she'd switch on one hearing aid and say to him "We're going to David Jones" and then switch it off again.
You need to watch the music video of the Australian group called The Seekers singing I AM AUSTRALIAN It will blow your mind As an Aussie we adore this song 🇦🇺
There are these 8 special clocks designed and built for the Atlanta Olympics invented by my mate Ian, an insanely intelligent inventor. He helped me with my mining company when I first started it. A lot of his patents are incredible. The stud finder. Transition lenses he actually designed for welders. Our Kiwi mate Jimmy has the only pair of welder raybands. It was an unsafe safe design so only made as a concept. Jimmy's step dad has them as a gift
I'm Australian and had an Irish friend. She used to say that Australians are quite resourceful with technological ideas. My theory is that we have this culture of invention because in the early days of settlement by the English, the people were being sent to what is equivalent to going to Mars in our day and age. The consequence of this is that the people had to be inventors in order to survive. Actually the first colony did struggle to survive on arriving here. So the thought goes that it push the culture to be inventive. Also for many years Australia has remained much more remote compared to the rest of the world, this also may have accelerated this culture over the years. We may only now have been able to resourceful connect with the world like other countries, however the mode of survival perhaps still remains.
As you are finding out about Australia, you need to look at our culture; the best way to understand a country, is by checking out their developing music scene. I would like to recommend you react to 150 Great Australian Bands and Singers.
As a proud 8th gen Australian 🇦🇺 I’d love to say yes we’re awesome but us Australians (most) are from a long line of many great countries and great people. But it’s nice to hear.
DavId Warren (Black Box flight recorder) was born on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, my home state. He was also the first European child born on the island.
Don’t allow a common confusion to reign. WiFi is NOT the internet. WiFi is NOT the World Wide Web. WiFi is the technology that allows for the short range radio connection between two or more electronic devices. Our WiFi speeds are as fast as anywhere. The speed of a WiFi connection is dependent on distance between devices, interference to the signal, the type of WiFi technology being used and that technology’s maximum throughput, e.g. WiFi-6 vs WiFi-5 (both devices need to be using the highest throughput technology in order to communicate at the highest speed). Here in Oz, our internet speeds tend to be relatively inferior for many people due to a combination of many factors. These include: poor National Broadband Network infrastructure in many places due to previous political decisions; large distances between Australia and many of our common data sources; speed and capacity limitations imposed by having to use undersea cables or satellite communications; limited satellite capacity; large distances between major cities within Australia; sparse rural population making speed/infrastructure improvements very expensive per person.
@@jimmymcmonaldo480 Huh? Who’s American? Certainly not me. Please don’t insult me! ;-) To restate my case as simply and as clearly as I can for anyone still confused, an internet connection is much more than WiFi. In fact, the connection route from end to end might not involve any WiFi at all. It could be all copper wire or all optical fibre or more likely these days, a combination of these, but possibly even without any WiFi (radio connection) at all. WiFi is only a local means of connecting or sharing an internet connection within an end-user’s premises or within a small area surrounding a public access point. The quality of any WiFi connection and the speed naturally will vary in any comparison between any one end-user site and another end-user site but often those speeds are quite good. Speed within any local WiFi setup is dependent on the type of equipment in use, its configuration, the number of simultaneous users and their total bandwidth requirements within that WiFi setup at any particular point in time. That is not usually the bottleneck in any internet connection, unless users of that WiFi setup are pushing the WiFi (i.e. local) setup’s capacity limits. What **is** poor in many Australian internet connections is the speed of the connection (usually NBN, 4G, 5G or slow satellite) in the part of the connection route running from those end-user premises to their Internet Service Providers (i.e. outside of the WiFi portion). This is compounded by the infrastructure limitations in the links from those ISPs to the distant nations overseas that we Australians want to connect to. By geographical necessity, submarine cable and satellite transmission capacity limitations and speed limitations affect the quality and speed of the internet connection in a similar way that the limitations of the user’s local WiFi connection can do, but usually more noticeably so than the WiFi portion of the connection. So it’s not WiFi that’s the bottleneck, it’s usually parts of the whole internet connection outside of the WiFi part. That’s my point. Get it? Whew!
@@DeepThought9999 Try telling people that it's the internet infrastructure that makes the internet here slow compared to other parts of the world and not WiFi but so many people have got it stuck in their heads that it's the WiFi that is slow but it isn't. The WiFi in South Korea is the same as the WiFi here yet South Korea has super fast internet and we don't because their infrastructure is light years ahead of ours.
@@RandomStuff-he7lu It can vary wildly. I'm also Australian and in a state capital city with NBN internet connection, but with Steam I'll be lucky if my download speed reaches 6-7 MBs. I could whine, but at least it's far better than when I was relying on a cable model connection where we barely broke 1 MBs, or the dreaded days of a 56k dialup when it took all night to download a 2 mb patch for Starcraft.
There is now 28 million in Australia and our largest city (population) is now Melbourne not Sydney. Also in my city of Geelong in Victoria Australia, in 1854 James Harrison invented the first refrigerator system using a compressor and gas - the word's first mechanical refrigeration system. The same technology and system used in every modern fridge, freezer and airconditioner today.
@@marcuspitts2482 hahaha you can't help where you were born or raised. I live in a nice place, I have a good job, so yeah, I'm happy here in the city I live in. I've always found California is OK depending on where you go 😀
Oh Yes, don't forget Melbourne (we are still here, anyone ?), Melbournians can't help themself but to write stupid things like Hey, Hey everyone, don't forget we are the largest city, we are bigger than Sydney, anyone listening ?, Melbourne people are always so butt hurt for always coming second, the only thing you have now it Coffee and larger population in the city, nothing else, BTW Sydney Coffee is on par if not better than Melbourne nowadays, you also have crazy weather, freezing winters, Nazi gov't, massive debt, don't forget Melbourne claim to fame World longest locked down city 😂😂🤣🤣
my father when he was an electrical apprentice at AWA seen demonstrated sound on film (optical) not record (vitaphone) in 1924 by a person named Ray Allsop who later manufactured optical sound heads for C&W 35mm FILM Projectors, was he also responsible for the clapperboard?
We invented refrigerated cargo containers so food could be shipped overseas, the Cochlear implant that allows deaf people to hear, the HPLC (High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph) and the MS (Mass Spectrometer) which allows scientists to determine the exact components of drug, foods, detect drugs in blood and a whole lot of other research things, the notebook with glued pages, the rotary engine, the rotary clothes hoist, motorised lawn mowers, the stump jump plough and the list goes on....
Cochlear implant [bionic ear as some call it] , the pacemaker - 1st successful one used in 1929 in Sydney to save an infant. Invented by Dr. Lidwell. The first full length feature film was "the Kelly Gang" about our outlaw Ned Kelly and was screened in 1906. The wine cask [box wine] 1965. The Surf Ski 1912. Plastic lenses for glasses 1960's. Multi-focal contact lenses 1992. Spray on skin for burns victims who don't enough to graft Dr. Fiona Wood 1993. The CSIRO [ Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation- our National science agency] developed Relenza [for the flu] 1996. Dr. Ian Frazer developed the first cancer vaccine - for cervical cancer - in 2006. 1855 James Harrison was granted a patent for his ether vapour-compression system that could successfully keep meat frozen for months - the fridge/freezer. There are sooo many more from the stump jump plough to today's inventions.
I don't know about the first full length movie being the Kelly gang, in 1900 the salvation army made a 2hr movie, soldiers of the Cross, I do believe that was the first movie made in Australia, and the first colourised movie as well.
TV was invented in 1880 but Henry Sutton died before finishing in 1903, but was picked up by Scottish inventor John logie baird and finished in the 1920s (aus have a logie award for tv shows) he accredited Australian inventor for the framework and science technology.... Henry Sutton invented portable radio receiver, rechargeable batteries and fax machine (fax machine was in collaboration with Tesla as they were also developing tv from the backbone of fax machine technology and science).... then same time of 1880 Lance we Mole invented and patented armoured tank for military in South aus..... and this aussie James Harrison in 1854 invented fridge as we know it now as the motorized independent ice box creating it's own cool tempreture without relying to actual ice before technology....
Wifi came about during a time where there were around a dozen companies trying to make it work, but they all kept hitting a wall where the devices were getting confused by all the RF Interference and signal echo. CSIRO were heavily invested in Deep Space Radio telescopes and used special algorithms to separate RF Interference, so they applied the same tech to Wifi, and scored the patent.
However Microsoft stepped in and said that they had made WiFi usable for all and not John and that John had stolen their idea. But John had all the patents for it yet that didn't stop Microsoft from suing John. Naturally Microsoft drew the court case out for as long as possible to bankrupt John which happened so he would give in and they'd win. But John wouldn't give on for he knew he was in the right as did his solicitor who didn't charge John for his services. In the end the US court ruled in John's favour and Microsoft lost and John was awarded 400M in damages by the court although it cost Microsoft a lot more for their team of lawyers would have been on about 10K per hour. It shows that sometimes David can win against Goliath and don't f**k with a determined Aussie who knows he's in the right.
John O Sullivan and his team at CSIRO, developed the ability for multi channel wireless communication. Radio comms of course existed before even he was born, but trying to use them for IT networking was a nightmare, a lot of cross band interference - their work enabled the further development of what would become the 802.11 standard, without it wifi wouldn't exist.
Australian: *put cameras on racecars* Gjobozz: OMGWTF?!?! That's crazy.. what? Australians: *makes enormous strides in the development of penicillin* Gjobozz: ...
I was wondering when WIFI would come up and add the fridge to the list. The funny thing is we have radar stations that have been tracking the B2 bombers for at least 30 years. The Americans were informed of this by saying, "Hey bro do you have stealth bombers landing in Guam?" paraphrasing.
I'm assuming because of the relatively small population? It hints @ it @ the start of the video how big Australia is in a geographic sense but with a small population.
@@westnblu Distance and requirement necessitated innovation, mate. Doing things differently was the only way to adapt down here. Small population does not mean uneducated, stupid or unable.
WiFi not true! Australia invented WLAN protocols IN THE 1990'S to enable stabilised mini networking. WiFi was made by a actress Hedy Lamarr in the 1940's Vic Hayes chaired the committee to develop the 802.11 protocols
Actually WiFi was invented in America not Australia. But for the majority of us it was unusable because as the signal travelled from the modem to computer it picked up noise so the computer couldn't detect the original signal buried within all that noise. What John O Sullivan did was to invent a way for the signal to travel from the modem to a computer or the mobile phone tower to mobile phones without picking up noise along the way so the original signal remained pure and uncluttered. You could do a reaction video to the timeline of Australian inventions which shows a lot more then here. Naturally there's a lot of mining and farming inventions but also everyday items too.
Should have included a few more like pacemakers, the orbital engine, refrigerators, cervical cancer vaccine, artificial heart valves, spray on skin, frozen embryo babies and the tank ( yep the British govt paid a Aussie for the concept after World War One)
There have been a few incorrect comments. But we did invent the rotary mower. , the fridge and the hills hoist. If you believe the science we had a hand I. The nuclear bomb, the world's fastest 4 door car ( xy gt)
Yes the nuclear bomb was invented by Robert Oppenheimer and his team at Los Alamos in the USA. However I understand that Sir Mark Oliphant ( Physicist) had a hand in it, collaborating with Oppenheimer. I shared a lift with him one particular day, when he went to hospital to see his ailing wife.
they always seem to miss the invention that I consider to be the most used and contributes more to humanity -it is the latex disposable glove. Every surgeon and most mechanics use them every day as well as numerous other applications. They were developed by a condom manufacturer who wanted to diversify.
This didn't mention one of Australia's greatest inventions, the michell bearing, i don't know the full details of it, bit without it hydro electricity and tirbines could not exist
The method where people vote in a booth on their own was an Australian invention. Pollsters can ask people who they're going to vote for but people may lie but once in the booth on their own they can vote the way they want to with out any interference and for years it was known as the Australian Vote. America has stealth military aircraft that normal radar can't detect so we invented a radar that can detect stealth aircraft by focusing on the air disturbance behind the plane. The American military was overjoyed for if they ever lost one they'd want to know where it crashed and thanks to us now they can.
The inflatable escape slide and the black box recorders seem peculiar inventions to be made by an Aussie as the last fatal crash by Qantas, the national airline occurred in 1951 before jet aviation began.
I used to know Dr. Dave Warren. He was a founder member of the Morris Minor club. I joined and went on a early morning "Icicle Run" with my new girlfriend. Dr. Dave kind of hit on her. My Dad was on the run in his Morrie too. Susan to my Dad that Dave had hit on her. Dad said "Aaaah yes, Dr. Dave tends to do that whenever a new female shows up!"
4:10 it makes sense australia made the black box we are blocked off from every other country we need a good plane industry to connect our people to the rest of the world we have or had the biggest plane company in the world not sure since 2020 when most planes were grounded then retired
like most good inventions the emergency escape slide was simple and we should have thought of it much earlier but nobody thought that way. Penecillin helped the allies win the war as well as the Germans didn't have it.
the more amazing aspect of this is your unbelievable response as if the USA invented everything and you are realising that they didn't - as if only the USA had a serious impact in this technological world - aussies invented much more than you realise that is now standard and normal around the world
YOU NEED to check out a video called "Secrets of the Australian Dollar" it goes into Australia's innovative idea of making money out of plastic (polymer) over 36 years ago and now its done all around thew world.
The Power Board (Power Strip in the US) is another Aussie invention. Most of our biggest “Home consumption” inventions has come from an almost universally genetic trait… The Australian idea of working smarter not harder (sometimes also called being lazy). Give us a situation where something is too long, too complicated, too unpleasant (ie weather) and we will find a way of making it better… The Hills Hoist clothesline, the lawn mower, the Ute (or as you call it the pick up truck)… all came about because we wanted to spend more time on the things we enjoy doing rather than the stuff we have to do :D
The power board or power strip invented by Kambrook was the biggest corporate stuff up there could be because they were more interested in sales than copyright so their design was never copyrighted and every other company that now makes power boards doesn't have to make royalty payments to Kambrook.
pretty sure we invented the BBQ as well
Working Smarter isnt Lazy. Lazy is not putting any thought into a task, doing it poorly and hoping that you don't have to do the task again. Which backfires because the Boss didnt like the results. Working Smarter is efficient.
@@RivynPlays well certainly the bbq tool that is now sold, the one that looks like a concrete trowel with one saw edge was invented by a guy at Roma in the 80’s he showed me the prototype he had made out of an old crosscut saw
An Aussie invented the rotary lawn mower which was an improvement on existing mowers.
Cask wine and Eskys, which everyone has, came from Aus too.
There are more but it's too hot to think.
We also invented the refrigerator and the word selfie.
@@sallybraid1063 that’s niccce
@@giobozzreacts Yeah.. but it didnt mean "take a photo of yourself" it had a NSFW (NSFYT) Meaning.
Actually, in the case of tRump, it is going to be renamed CELLFIE.
There are a lot more that wasnt mentioned on there eg the push mower, the first refrigerator plus others.
There’s a list of 60 Australian inventions if u do a google search, they aren’t on RUclips. Someone, not me lol, should put them all on RUclips. But people still argue, some were previous, but we perfected what we use today - like the wifi we use now
GPS Guidance of Agricultural machinery
Also the Jaws Of Life for cutting open mangled vehicle wrecks to get to, and give life saving treatment to victims faster, also remove and get them into ambulance fixed equipment faster and ultimately to hospital faster. This is why there are so many horrific looking accidents happening today with people wondering how victims involved managed to survive. Making seatbelts retractable was another invention. I remember as a primary school kid in the 60's, there being a lot of adopted kids due to both parents being killed in car accidents while they were being baby sat by another person. Firstly due to no seatbelts at all, later due to plain non retractable seatbelts not able to automatically pull in and hold the body from slapping and whipping about in the seat with such deadly force. Also fire proof suits worn under racing uniforms is another Oz invention that has people wondering how racing car drivers escape the inferno of a crashed car alive.
How about the skin that is grown in a lab for burn victims! That is a major invention that has and will help many burn victims, or the invention that has helped so many hear!
A couple of years ago, I was asked by a local school to tabulate a list of Australian inventions. What I found, was surprising.
This just a part of what I found :-
1838: Prepaid postage
1851: Refrigerator
1856: Secret Ballot voting
1859: Photolithography
1874: Underwater torpedo
1876: Stump-jump plough
1877: Mechanical sheep clippers
1889: Electric drill
1894: Powered (non manned) flight
1902: Paper notepads
1905: Thrust Bearings
1906: First full feature-length movie
1906: Shoe polish
1907: Xerox photocopying
1910: Concrete water pipes
1911: Army tank
1911: Outdoor rotary clothes hoist
1912: Surf ski
1912: Self-propelled rotary hoe
1917: Flying doctor service (air ambulance)
1919: Non-perishable anthrax vaccine
1924: Car radios
1927: Pedal powered two-way radios
1928: Heart pacemaker
1929: Starting blocks for competitive foot racing
1930: Postal letter sorting machine
1930: Movie clapperboard
1934: Braille Printing Press
1937: Portable Cabinet Respirator (iron lung)
1938: Polocrosse
1940: Zinc cream (white sun block)
1943: The Splayd (a combination of a knife, fork and spoon)
1945: Latex gloves
1946: Castor wheels
1952: Two stroke powered lawn mower
1958: Black box flight recorder
1960: Plastic eyeglass lenses
1960: Self constructing tower crane
1961: Ultrasound scanner
1965: Wine cask box
1965: Aircraft Inflatable escape slide
1971: Variable rack and pinion steering
1971: Microwave landing system for aircraft
1972: Electrical power outlet strip
1972: Orbital car engine
1975: Instant boiling water heater
1978: Cochlear implants
1979: Fairlight computer musical instrument digital sampler (MIDI)
1979: In-car Racecam
1980: Dual flush toilet
1981: CPAP breathing mask for sleep apnea sufferers
1984: Automotive Baby Safety Capsule
1984: In vitro fertilisation
1985: Bronchitis vaccine
1988: Polymer (plastic) banknotes
1990: Spray on skin (for burn victims)
1992: Wi-Fi
1992: Multi-focal contact lens
1992: Computer software product activation
2003: Google Maps
we also invented the term Petrichor which describes a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather:
Mind blowing! My nephew just invented the "Kelly clip" for scaffolding, which will 100% prevent cheap/inferior scaffolding being used all round Australia 🇦🇺
I'm not a builder, but apparently it's a big deal re safety!
Thanks for the list. I'm also a proud Aussie.
Thanks for the list. Great job 😎👍
@@Dallas-Nyberg probably less known but true is the first commercially available GPS guidance system for Agricultural machinery, developed by a Goondiwindi farmer Beeline Technologies “Rev C” was a great success and its “Navigator” was the standard worldwide throughout the 2000’s
Have a look at the Australian Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Don’t forget the all important Esky 😅
Australia has a government funded research centre called the CSIRO. it does research into everything and also helps Australian inventor's to develop their inventions.
It does receive extra funding from private donors and proceeds from the inventions it created or helped to create.
America has an office where money gets poured in with nobody knowing where it goes.
It's called the Oval Office.
Missed the bionic ear, and a huge contribution to early IVF, and the hills hoist of course.
They forgot to mention this little lifesaving device:
The Humidicrib - late 1930s
The Humidicrib is a lightweight, portable and inexpensive alternative to the iron lung made from plywood, and was invented and manufactured by Tasmanian brothers Edward and Don Both in the late 1930s.
Also the humble lawnmower:
The Victa lawnmower story began in a shed in Sydney, back in 1952, with a peach can, billycart wheels and a few scraps of metal. Victa Mowers is now a multi-million dollar industry exporting to 30 countries around the world. The Victa mower was developed by Mervyn Victor Richardson, in August 1952.
The point about Google Maps is that the Aussie invention was the first electronic map system for general use. It was a big way to use electronic devices.
All the others copied what Google developed from the Aussie system.
It may seem normal to you but it was a massive change when it happened, as all major inventions are.
They change the world from Before - to - After. (I was going to use Before X but now that means Twitter. Lol.)
I was watching the broadcast of the car race when the first "race-cam" was used. It was very glitchy and kept cutting out but still, gave us a viewpoint that we'd never seen before and was therefore amazing.
Yeah, they were transmitting the signal up to the helicopter..which couldn't keep up with the car.
And don’t forget StumpCam, a camera & recorder attached to the wicket stump in cricket.
Once the mind accepts the possibilities, inventions take their own trajectories into all aspects of life.
I was watching it too when it came out. He was tailgating coming into the esses when the brake lights on the car in front came on. I grabbed the arms of the chair and pushed back with my legs bracing in case of impact.
Oh no....the US is not the center of the universe.
Americans don't think they are the centre of the Universe, they think they are the Universe.
Surprised cochlear implant wasn't in that list :(
My father was one of the very first to have this done. We lived in Melbourne. He had severe nausea for a long time and often described it as the worst experience (as a long-term thing) he had ever experienced... and he was felling trees I the bush to provide for his 12 siblings and widowed mum when he was 12. Living completely off the land and driving log trucks and dozers at 14 with his 18-year-old brother before he left for the war and never saw again. Strong man. I saw him huddled in the corner as he went through constant "the room is spinning" moments 😢.
In the end it was good, but it is much better nowadays. Breakthrough invention 😊
It was. Look at year 1978.
@@logic.and.reasoning Back in the 1970's my mum knew and elderly couple where the 87 year old lady and her 91 year old boyfriend would go to Parramatta in NSW. He was deaf and couldn't stand the sounds of the traffic so he'd switch his hearing aids off. If she wanted to go somewhere in Parramatta she'd switch on one hearing aid and say to him "We're going to David Jones" and then switch it off again.
You need to watch the music video of the Australian group called The Seekers singing
I AM AUSTRALIAN
It will blow your mind
As an Aussie we adore this song 🇦🇺
There are these 8 special clocks designed and built for the Atlanta Olympics invented by my mate Ian, an insanely intelligent inventor. He helped me with my mining company when I first started it. A lot of his patents are incredible. The stud finder. Transition lenses he actually designed for welders. Our Kiwi mate Jimmy has the only pair of welder raybands. It was an unsafe safe design so only made as a concept. Jimmy's step dad has them as a gift
I'm Australian and had an Irish friend. She used to say that Australians are quite resourceful with technological ideas. My theory is that we have this culture of invention because in the early days of settlement by the English, the people were being sent to what is equivalent to going to Mars in our day and age. The consequence of this is that the people had to be inventors in order to survive. Actually the first colony did struggle to survive on arriving here. So the thought goes that it push the culture to be inventive. Also for many years Australia has remained much more remote compared to the rest of the world, this also may have accelerated this culture over the years. We may only now have been able to resourceful connect with the world like other countries, however the mode of survival perhaps still remains.
As you are finding out about Australia, you need to look at our culture; the best way to understand a country, is by checking out their developing music scene. I would like to recommend you react to 150 Great Australian Bands and Singers.
yep we invented wifi just to now how one of the worst connections worldwide haha
Real bruz I feel that
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Nah mate we invented WiFi to leach off another blokes Internet 😂😂😂
As a proud 8th gen Australian 🇦🇺 I’d love to say yes we’re awesome but us Australians (most) are from a long line of many great countries and great people. But it’s nice to hear.
The tyranny of isolation breeds inventiveness you can’t just go to the shop and buy it so you have to make it yourself
Aussies find a way
Isolation??? never felt isolated living in Australia in all my life
DavId Warren (Black Box flight recorder) was born on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory, my home state. He was also the first European child born on the island.
Don’t allow a common confusion to reign. WiFi is NOT the internet. WiFi is NOT the World Wide Web. WiFi is the technology that allows for the short range radio connection between two or more electronic devices. Our WiFi speeds are as fast as anywhere. The speed of a WiFi connection is dependent on distance between devices, interference to the signal, the type of WiFi technology being used and that technology’s maximum throughput, e.g. WiFi-6 vs WiFi-5 (both devices need to be using the highest throughput technology in order to communicate at the highest speed). Here in Oz, our internet speeds tend to be relatively inferior for many people due to a combination of many factors. These include: poor National Broadband Network infrastructure in many places due to previous political decisions; large distances between Australia and many of our common data sources; speed and capacity limitations imposed by having to use undersea cables or satellite communications; limited satellite capacity; large distances between major cities within Australia; sparse rural population making speed/infrastructure improvements very expensive per person.
American who got annoyed
@@jimmymcmonaldo480 Huh? Who’s American? Certainly not me. Please don’t insult me! ;-)
To restate my case as simply and as clearly as I can for anyone still confused, an internet connection is much more than WiFi. In fact, the connection route from end to end might not involve any WiFi at all. It could be all copper wire or all optical fibre or more likely these days, a combination of these, but possibly even without any WiFi (radio connection) at all.
WiFi is only a local means of connecting or sharing an internet connection within an end-user’s premises or within a small area surrounding a public access point. The quality of any WiFi connection and the speed naturally will vary in any comparison between any one end-user site and another end-user site but often those speeds are quite good.
Speed within any local WiFi setup is dependent on the type of equipment in use, its configuration, the number of simultaneous users and their total bandwidth requirements within that WiFi setup at any particular point in time. That is not usually the bottleneck in any internet connection, unless users of that WiFi setup are pushing the WiFi (i.e. local) setup’s capacity limits.
What **is** poor in many Australian internet connections is the speed of the connection (usually NBN, 4G, 5G or slow satellite) in the part of the connection route running from those end-user premises to their Internet Service Providers (i.e. outside of the WiFi portion). This is compounded by the infrastructure limitations in the links from those ISPs to the distant nations overseas that we Australians want to connect to. By geographical necessity, submarine cable and satellite transmission capacity limitations and speed limitations affect the quality and speed of the internet connection in a similar way that the limitations of the user’s local WiFi connection can do, but usually more noticeably so than the WiFi portion of the connection.
So it’s not WiFi that’s the bottleneck, it’s usually parts of the whole internet connection outside of the WiFi part. That’s my point. Get it? Whew!
@@DeepThought9999 Try telling people that it's the internet infrastructure that makes the internet here slow compared to other parts of the world and not WiFi but so many people have got it stuck in their heads that it's the WiFi that is slow but it isn't. The WiFi in South Korea is the same as the WiFi here yet South Korea has super fast internet and we don't because their infrastructure is light years ahead of ours.
@@AussiePom I'm in Australia and I downloaded a game off Steam today at about 120MBs.
@@RandomStuff-he7lu It can vary wildly. I'm also Australian and in a state capital city with NBN internet connection, but with Steam I'll be lucky if my download speed reaches 6-7 MBs. I could whine, but at least it's far better than when I was relying on a cable model connection where we barely broke 1 MBs, or the dreaded days of a 56k dialup when it took all night to download a 2 mb patch for Starcraft.
There is now 28 million in Australia and our largest city (population) is now Melbourne not Sydney. Also in my city of Geelong in Victoria Australia, in 1854 James Harrison invented the first refrigerator system using a compressor and gas - the word's first mechanical refrigeration system. The same technology and system used in every modern fridge, freezer and airconditioner today.
It isn’t 28 mill it’s around 26 mill
@@Dogegeneral-m5s We're both wrong! The Australian bureau of statistics website says Australia's population on March 31st 2024 was 27,122,411 :) Craig
And you are happy to live in Australia's answer to California?
@@marcuspitts2482 hahaha you can't help where you were born or raised. I live in a nice place, I have a good job, so yeah, I'm happy here in the city I live in. I've always found California is OK depending on where you go 😀
Oh Yes, don't forget Melbourne (we are still here, anyone ?), Melbournians can't help themself but to write stupid things like Hey, Hey everyone, don't forget we are the largest city, we are bigger than Sydney, anyone listening ?, Melbourne people are always so butt hurt for always coming second, the only thing you have now it Coffee and larger population in the city, nothing else, BTW Sydney Coffee is on par if not better than Melbourne nowadays, you also have crazy weather, freezing winters, Nazi gov't, massive debt, don't forget Melbourne claim to fame World longest locked down city 😂😂🤣🤣
Plus the lawn mower and rotary line
We also invented the clapperboard, used in motion pictures, to sync audio and video takes.
my father when he was an electrical apprentice at AWA seen demonstrated sound on film (optical) not record (vitaphone) in 1924 by a person named Ray Allsop who later manufactured optical sound heads for C&W 35mm FILM Projectors, was he also responsible for the clapperboard?
We invented refrigerated cargo containers so food could be shipped overseas, the Cochlear implant that allows deaf people to hear, the HPLC (High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph) and the MS (Mass Spectrometer) which allows scientists to determine the exact components of drug, foods, detect drugs in blood and a whole lot of other research things, the notebook with glued pages, the rotary engine, the rotary clothes hoist, motorised lawn mowers, the stump jump plough and the list goes on....
Cochlear implant [bionic ear as some call it] , the pacemaker - 1st successful one used in 1929 in Sydney to save an infant. Invented by Dr. Lidwell. The first full length feature film was "the Kelly Gang" about our outlaw Ned Kelly and was screened in 1906. The wine cask [box wine] 1965. The Surf Ski 1912. Plastic lenses for glasses 1960's. Multi-focal contact lenses 1992. Spray on skin for burns victims who don't enough to graft Dr. Fiona Wood 1993. The CSIRO [ Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation- our National science agency] developed Relenza [for the flu] 1996. Dr. Ian Frazer developed the first cancer vaccine - for cervical cancer - in 2006. 1855 James Harrison was granted a patent for his ether vapour-compression system that could successfully keep meat frozen for months - the fridge/freezer. There are sooo many more from the stump jump plough to today's inventions.
I don't know about the first full length movie being the Kelly gang, in 1900 the salvation army made a 2hr movie, soldiers of the Cross, I do believe that was the first movie made in Australia, and the first colourised movie as well.
Check out the Michel Bearing. developed early 1900's used on all large ships etc.. it'll blow your mind.
TV was invented in 1880 but Henry Sutton died before finishing in 1903, but was picked up by Scottish inventor John logie baird and finished in the 1920s (aus have a logie award for tv shows) he accredited Australian inventor for the framework and science technology.... Henry Sutton invented portable radio receiver, rechargeable batteries and fax machine (fax machine was in collaboration with Tesla as they were also developing tv from the backbone of fax machine technology and science).... then same time of 1880 Lance we Mole invented and patented armoured tank for military in South aus..... and this aussie James Harrison in 1854 invented fridge as we know it now as the motorized independent ice box creating it's own cool tempreture without relying to actual ice before technology....
Hills Hoist clothes line. The lawn mower. My dad invented the first motorised lawn edger. And ... correct me.... THE HEART IMPLANT... PACEMAKER
Wifi came about during a time where there were around a dozen companies trying to make it work, but they all kept hitting a wall where the devices were getting confused by all the RF Interference and signal echo.
CSIRO were heavily invested in Deep Space Radio telescopes and used special algorithms to separate RF Interference, so they applied the same tech to Wifi, and scored the patent.
However Microsoft stepped in and said that they had made WiFi usable for all and not John and that John had stolen their idea. But John had all the patents for it yet that didn't stop Microsoft from suing John. Naturally Microsoft drew the court case out for as long as possible to bankrupt John which happened so he would give in and they'd win. But John wouldn't give on for he knew he was in the right as did his solicitor who didn't charge John for his services. In the end the US court ruled in John's favour and Microsoft lost and John was awarded 400M in damages by the court although it cost Microsoft a lot more for their team of lawyers would have been on about 10K per hour. It shows that sometimes David can win against Goliath and don't f**k with a determined Aussie who knows he's in the right.
There's a lot more than just these inventions :)
don't forget we also invented the selfie stick
Sadly only one of the two variants gets most of the attention. The Pollie Stick comes close second ;)
There are many more great inventions like, Refrigeration, Radar, Differential Gears, Heart Pace Maker, and the list goes on. 🤩
🇦🇺My nephew just invented the "KELLY CLIP" for use re safety on scaffolding. Will prevent cheap, unsafe scaffolding being used👍
John O Sullivan and his team at CSIRO, developed the ability for multi channel wireless communication. Radio comms of course existed before even he was born, but trying to use them for IT networking was a nightmare, a lot of cross band interference - their work enabled the further development of what would become the 802.11 standard, without it wifi wouldn't exist.
Even though WiFi was invented in Australia, we probably have the crappiest connection to the internet
Racecam 3:16 this was for the 1979 bathurst 1000 & would be a good video to check out.
Also the Dethridge Wheel which measures water use in irrigation channels.
Australian: *put cameras on racecars*
Gjobozz: OMGWTF?!?! That's crazy.. what?
Australians: *makes enormous strides in the development of penicillin*
Gjobozz: ...
😂 i thought they were going to put the double flush toilet as number 1
I was wondering when WIFI would come up and add the fridge to the list. The funny thing is we have radar stations that have been tracking the B2 bombers for at least 30 years. The Americans were informed of this by saying, "Hey bro do you have stealth bombers landing in Guam?" paraphrasing.
Wait, I wasn't on the list?!? I'm an amazing Aussie invention!
Why is it so surprising we can invent things Down Under?
I'm assuming because of the relatively small population? It hints @ it @ the start of the video how big Australia is in a geographic sense but with a small population.
@@westnblu Distance and requirement necessitated innovation, mate. Doing things differently was the only way to adapt down here. Small population does not mean uneducated, stupid or unable.
Necessity being the mother/father of invention.
I’m an Aussie btw. It’s a long way between towns sometimes, not to mention the rest of the 🌎
@@blacksorrento4719 Yeah, mate. The distance between our towns would take you across a couple of states in the US or Countries in Europe :D
Yes 😊 us Ausies are good 👍
WiFi not true! Australia invented WLAN protocols IN THE 1990'S to enable stabilised mini networking. WiFi was made by a actress Hedy Lamarr in the 1940's Vic Hayes chaired the committee to develop the 802.11 protocols
An Australian also invested the blocks runners use to launch themselves into a race
Actually WiFi was invented in America not Australia. But for the majority of us it was unusable because as the signal travelled from the modem to computer it picked up noise so the computer couldn't detect the original signal buried within all that noise. What John O Sullivan did was to invent a way for the signal to travel from the modem to a computer or the mobile phone tower to mobile phones without picking up noise along the way so the original signal remained pure and uncluttered.
You could do a reaction video to the timeline of Australian inventions which shows a lot more then here. Naturally there's a lot of mining and farming inventions but also everyday items too.
Hearing aid
Should have included a few more like pacemakers, the orbital engine, refrigerators, cervical cancer vaccine, artificial heart valves, spray on skin, frozen embryo babies and the tank ( yep the British govt paid a Aussie for the concept after World War One)
Another Australian invention is the rotary clothes line or the Hills Hoist
There have been a few incorrect comments. But we did invent the rotary mower. , the fridge and the hills hoist. If you believe the science we had a hand I. The nuclear bomb, the world's fastest 4 door car ( xy gt)
Yes the nuclear bomb was invented by Robert Oppenheimer and his team at Los Alamos in the USA. However I understand that Sir Mark Oliphant ( Physicist) had a hand in it, collaborating with Oppenheimer. I shared a lift with him one particular day, when he went to hospital to see his ailing wife.
I would recommend you react to The Secrets of the Australian Dollar, which talks about the development of money made from plastic.
Not to mention ‘chateaux cardboard’ aka wine casks.
in Australia we have a saying. THE QUIET ACHIEVER
I personally know one of the inventors of Wi Fi, a real nice guy.
Australia invents a lot of stuff. I think we always think outside the box.
Dual flush toilet
Surprised the heart pace maker wasn’t on the list.
dude - "there was apple maps and stuff ... " the first iPhone was 2007. These guys had built google maps in 2003. Way ahead of its time.
Why bro shocked he think we can’t make good stuff 😭
Yes they did
they always seem to miss the invention that I consider to be the most used and contributes more to humanity -it is the latex disposable glove. Every surgeon and most mechanics use them every day as well as numerous other applications. They were developed by a condom manufacturer who wanted to diversify.
Also invented the black box for aircrafts
Sorry I hadn’t finished watching.
don't forget the Wheely Bin
The Cochlear ear implant as well.
we invented the tank and the torpedo.
This didn't mention one of Australia's greatest inventions, the michell bearing, i don't know the full details of it, bit without it hydro electricity and tirbines could not exist
The method where people vote in a booth on their own was an Australian invention. Pollsters can ask people who they're going to vote for but people may lie but once in the booth on their own they can vote the way they want to with out any interference and for years it was known as the Australian Vote.
America has stealth military aircraft that normal radar can't detect so we invented a radar that can detect stealth aircraft by focusing on the air disturbance behind the plane. The American military was overjoyed for if they ever lost one they'd want to know where it crashed and thanks to us now they can.
The US invented the internet, the danish invented the world wide web and Australia invented wifi
The inflatable escape slide and the black box recorders seem peculiar inventions to be made by an Aussie as the last fatal crash by Qantas, the national airline occurred in 1951 before jet aviation began.
Let's make Australia great again 😊
My biggest surprise was you didn't acknowledge penicillin
I used to know Dr. Dave Warren. He was a founder member of the Morris Minor club. I joined and went on a early morning "Icicle Run" with my new girlfriend. Dr. Dave kind of hit on her. My Dad was on the run in his Morrie too. Susan to my Dad that Dave had hit on her. Dad said "Aaaah yes, Dr. Dave tends to do that whenever a new female shows up!"
4:10 it makes sense australia made the black box we are blocked off from every other country we need a good plane industry to connect our people to the rest of the world we have or had the biggest plane company in the world not sure since 2020 when most planes were grounded then retired
like most good inventions the emergency escape slide was simple and we should have thought of it much earlier but nobody thought that way. Penecillin helped the allies win the war as well as the Germans didn't have it.
You need to look at the 100 world inventions you'll be surprised many more times
Stuff you use everyday
Between New Zealand and Australia mate .... check em out.
We also invented the cloth line
the scram jet engine. the high speed 5 barrel gattling gun fitted to US airforce air craft. and anti missile ships
Um , hear me, Can you hear me ?.
No .
Cochlear implant ❤ best Aussie creation after after Australians . All Australians
the more amazing aspect of this is your unbelievable response as if the USA invented everything and you are realising that they didn't - as if only the USA had a serious impact in this technological world - aussies invented much more than you realise that is now standard and normal around the world
also invented heart pace maker, and contact lenses
Also the sheering clippers for sheep which then led the way for the hair clippers which was also invented by an indigenous man.
All good bro....enjoy
Love watching Americans when they realise, they didn't invent everything ...
Just to jump in, Aus has the most patents per population.
Google Maps were the world first. Not Apple's, plus Apple used Google Maps before starting their own.
If you watch the 1979 bathurst 1000, you see it used for the first time.
I’ll try to find that 👀
@@giobozzreacts ruclips.net/video/txdpL2PwlbY/видео.htmlsi=Df-_sB8Dh_P3UPsr
Pay wave or is that still wifi?
hey man they missed 1 the fridge
Apple Maps came after Google maps. The technology was not invented by Apple.
we made wifi, we own the worst internet. funny that.
Just passed 27 million in late 2024.
There's now over 26 million people here
Yeah Wi-Fi funds some of CSIRO
YOU NEED to check out a video called "Secrets of the Australian Dollar" it goes into Australia's innovative idea of making money out of plastic (polymer) over 36 years ago and now its done all around thew world.
You could do a whole vidya on Australian currency alone.
All these came from Australia especially the wifi
………QANTAS engineer designed the roll-out steps to aircraft doors’, so pax could disembark, before aerobridges’ became the norm…………
the artificial womb