Australian Inventions That Changed The World!! (BRITISH REACTION)

[@shaz464]

In my opinion, the cochlear ear implant should be in the top ten.

[@caro.k2958]

That and the pacemaker! 😂

[@Parth-gd9vz]

100% … on both accounts 👍🏼

[@SewHealthy8]

Also the technology to prevent motion sickness in users of virtual reality.

[@renzy5270]

Was waiting for it

[@NorseNyanCat]

Yeah, I figured cochlears would be on this list and went to comments to see if anyone mentioned it when it wasn’t, I don’t actually know how well known even the existence of them is, I’m hard of hearing so obviously i know about it being in the community, but every now and then I’ll even have family members not understand what I’m talking about with this sort of stuff.

[@brianmcdonnell6758]

The Jaws of Life, used to cut cars open following crashes, Pacemaker, a Scotsman discovered Penicillin, but it was an Aussie who perfected purification of Penicillin, the Bionic Ear, the Winged Keel which enabled Australia to win the America's Cup. Just a few Aussie inventions.

[@davidl707]

Yep, would've thought the cochlear implant(bionic ear) wouldve ranked higher than Google maps, or even the electric drill

[@utha2665]

@Michael Rogers Yes, Sir Alexander Fleming discovered it but was unable to manufacture it, the discovery sat for 10 years until Florey assembled a team from Oxford University. Another person who was probably responsible for the manufacturing and purification method was Norman Heatley, an Englishman. It was his suggestion that was used to manufacture penicillin in a pure enough form suitable for consumption. But it was a team effort, for sure and I guess the leader of the group gets the accolades of a huge team effort. I suppose if it weren't for Florey then Penicillin would have sat dormant for another 10 years.

[@karenstrong8887]

Baby capsules, car seats and toddlers seat. Seat belts and I could go on.

[@Rivighi]

Mate you forgot the best on the hills hoist

[@jamescollins8397]

@@Rivighi ... & the Victa lawnmower, the pacemaker, spray on skin, the Triton work bench, the Frazier lens, dual flush toilet, & the list goes on. .

[@ninjajuggalo187]

The Bunnings sausage sizzle has to be one of the best things Australia has invented

[@hedonismunderstands2469]

the chiko roll, can't knock the roll!

[@Food_That_I_Sadly_Hate]

And the Democracy sausage on voting day

[@JailbreakMoments]

Yes

[@Vicky_C87]

​@@hedonismunderstands2469 Can and will knock chicko rolls. Yuck!

[@apoorhorseabusedbycenk]

The fire service did it first

[@necianicholas2878]

The Dual Flush toilet is an Aussie invention, now used around the world.

[@elizabethscott7660]

Before the dual flush we invented the 'brick in the cistern flush'. 😂😂

[@necianicholas2878]

Yes, we were a family of 10 & Dad put a brick in the cistern back in the 60s to save water. 😊

[@MelodyMan69]

Prince Charles, at the time, was impressed but not sure how to use it. Go figure.

[@BC-op7rj]

Actually conceived in Japan, but never mastered or commercialised because they did not have the water shortages, so such a concept was useless to them. Chroma perfected it. Apparently no 1 overseas customer was Israel.

[@chuckmaddison2924]

We created it to help get rid of the Valiant.

[@jemor2143]

Some lesser known ones to add are... the wine cask, full length feature films and the first movie film, plastic spectacle lens, multifocal contact lens, spray on skin (burns patients), anti flu medication and cervical cancer vaccine... so many, too many to name here. Thanks for sharing.

[@lesleyking4059]

Cochlear hearing aids too

[@linesydclb8845]

the cause and treatment of stomach ulcers, rotary clothes hoist, victa mower. The first vapour refrigerator was invented by a Scottish Australian

[@sharronbrennon899]

Wine casks were around before Australia was even settled by the the Europeans. But back then the casks were made out of wood

[@jemor2143]

@@sharronbrennon899 I'm guessing you don't understand what they are. They are about 4lts plastic insert in a cardboard box that you buy for yourself that you can pour wine from. Not the wine barrels they distill wine in, so no they weren't around before settlement.

[@sharronbrennon899]

@@jemor2143 i knew what you meant. My brother would buy goon sacks all the time. But what you said was wine cask and not plastic wine sack which is pretty vague since more than plastic sacks can be a cask. And I wasn’t talking about the massive wooden barrels that they make wine in i was referring to the smaller wooden barrels that they transport wine in. Which is also called a cask. Even the massive barrels are called casks

[@lbd-po7cl]

You had me bristling at the start with the “Scottish invention of penicillin” comment😀! Fleming may have stumbled across the mould and it’s properties, but it was Australian Howard Florey who refined the mould and turned it into a usable medicine. Both Fleming and Florey, as well as German Ernst Chain were awarded the Nobel Prize for it, but people only ever seem to remember Fleming, sadly. So it really should be remembered as a joint Scottish, Australian and German invention - each played distinct but important roles, dependent on one another. Yes, WiFi. Not many people realize that one.

[@cgkennedy]

CSIRO took Microsoft to court for not paying royalties to them for appropriating wifi as their invention. Had to pay CSIRO big bickies in compensation.

[@leglessinoz]

Technically the CSIRO made wifi reliable. They didn't invent wifi.

[@martinwallace5734]

Yes, (the Scot) Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin but (the Australian) Howard Florey and (Jewish German refugee) Ernst Chain headed up a team of (British) scientists funded by the (American) Rockefeller Foundation isolated it and devised a way of growing it in large quantities suitable for use in humans. It was thus a multi-national collaborative effort. Fleming, Florey and Chain shared the Nobel Prize.

[@neild3074]

@@leglessinoz Then who did?

[@Michael-D.-Williams]

@@leglessinoz You know wifi is short for wireless fidelity? Making it reliable is the fidelity bit. There's no wifi without the fi.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

the Australian invention that has helped the world the most is the thin latex glove that are used by everyone from doctors to mechanics. They were invented by Ansell who wanted to diversify from making condoms.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

There are hundreds of inventions by Australians. This video didn't even mention refrigeration, the bionic ear, motorised lawn mower, IVF, ETC. The Scotsman didn't create the penicillin serum, he only discovered penicillin by accident. Howard Florey was the one who created the serum and was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

@michaelrogers2080 Fleming didn't think penicillin had any practical use. It was Florey who saw the possible medical applications and assembled a team of scientists, including Chain, that he led to develop the serum. The ancient Romans used mouldy bread to apply to soldiers' wounds to fight infection. They should be acknowledged as the discoverers of penicillin.

[@Michael-D.-Williams]

@@kennethdodemaide8678 Florey assembled that team in Britain, after he'd been away from Australia for decades. All the penicillin work was done in Britain, funded by the British Government and later some other investors. Florey was Australian, but its not an Australian invention.

[@ingridclare7411]

@@Michael-D.-Williams The way Australia and Britain were interlocked back then says it was as Australian as it was British. Hell, people still called Britain 'home' in 1945. My grandmother used to.

[@Michael-D.-Williams]

@@ingridclare7411 You reckon the Brits felt that way about Australia? That this was an Australian invention? Not a chance. Would you say every invention made by British emigres to Australia was a British invention as much as it was Australian? I dunno - maybe you're just more generous in giving out credit than I am.

[@chookinathunderstorm3446]

They always mention where they were born with Australian inventions. Look up the many lists of the hundreds of inventions. Like Hargreaves being the Scottish guy who invented box kites and invented the first plane that actually flew. The Wright brothers sailed all the way over and down here, then had to travel overland to his home to look at his plane flying over the sandy dunes and moved their operations in the US to Sandy dunes and Hargreaves kept in touch sending them ideas. Australia had the best weather, the best working hours and the best mix of geography for invention. Also since the early days the best overall basic education provided to healthy adventurous children that had healthy fresh variety in their diets. Also had left behind the debilitating British tradition of "Know your place and stick to your station in life. Who do you think you are trying to rise above?" Many challenges in Australia also with what was known as THE TYRANNY OF DISTANCE. The bushfires, droughts, cyclones, dust. All brought the need for more flights, travel improvements and fast building innovations. So many deaths on long distance country roads brought about, retractable seatbelts, good strong cats eye road side reflectors, the Jaws Of Life to get people out quickly. Earlier pedal radio, ised for communication and emergency calls. Hurrrricane lamps to prevent fires by immediately extinguishing themselves if they fell over. Reduced bushfires getting a start. Also with the racing car industry, fire proof full body suits. There are hundreds of inventions out of Australia no matter where the person was lambed and/or raised. This country inspired them and gave them the needs, ideas, freedom, health, time, will and belief they could at least give it a go. Not many nay sayers around as all input to improvement of lifestyle was welcome. Also Flemming was not a bacteriologist, so he wasn't inept or lazy, it simply was not his field. He discovered it and announced it for whoever might want to work with it.

[@anonymous91877]

Did you know Australian currency is designed to be distinguishable for the blind. Each note is a specific size that can go into special wallets or devices that contain Braille so you can tell the note by which Braille slot it can fit into. And each coin is designed not only using special sizes you can distinguish but there are ridges on the size that have patterns to help the blind tell them apart.

[@Elriuhilu]

A scientist at the CSIRO in the fifties invented atomic absorption spectroscopy (emission spectroscopy had already been a thing for a very long time, but it doesn't have the same applications). The idea led to development of instruments that can accurately identify substances, or that substances are missing where they should be and very quickly became useful in testing for contamination and in medicine to check if a person was deficient in some nutrient.

[@michealbohmer2871]

Other inventions: Cochlear Implant, rotary lawn mower, spray on skin, refrigerator (a Scottish born Australian named James Harrison), electronic pacemaker, winged keel, permaculture, plastic spectacle lenses, permanent crease clothing, cervical cancer vaccine, Frazier Lense, the notepad, splayds, dual flush toilet.

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

You forget the Army tank also. But it was the British who ended up developing the first tank due to costs.

[@David_P132]

I wouldn't mention splayds mate.

[@25emann]

@@David_P132 I have, and use, splayds... they are great.

[@25emann]

@@Nathan-ry3yu not just the tank (but also made Shermans, in WWll useful by upgunning the US tank with a British field gun. It was called Firefly, built by the Brits. The only thing that could blow the top off big German tanks until the US Pershing arrived in 1945), but the torpedo also.

[@David_P132]

@@25emann Cut the inside of your cheek!

[@johndavid9418]

The Hills Hoist was developed in Adelaide, South Australia by World War II veteran Lance Hill in 1945. July 20, 1969 An Aussie sheep station picked up transmissions & broadcast mans 1st step on the moon to the world.

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

Actually a few inventions i had no idea from country areas of South Australia. But my main reason for dropping into this comment is the Hills Hoist may not have been the first. There are earlier American advertizings of something very similar.

[@johndavid9418]

@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname And the Nazis & German scientists designed & built the Saturn 5 & ran NASA for decades under the Nazi Werner Von Braun. Americans didn't take us to the Moon, German Nazis took men of European decent to the Moon, they just happened to launch from North America. Americans try to take credit for everything. In fact the clothes line was invented thousands of years ago, it was called " A rope tied between 2 trees". Sorry, I'm feeling a little sarcastic today☮

[@terryt2897]

It was actually picked up by a space dish on a hill near the town of Carnarvon in WA The timing of the moon landing meant the Us and others were facing away from the moon at the crucial moment.

[@cgkennedy]

​@@terryt2897It was Honeysuckle Creek, Mt Stromlo.

[@debwhite7629]

Australians have been great in the medical field- Professor Ian Frazer, a (Scottish born) Australian, was the inventor of a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the infection that causes cervical cancer. Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren, two Australian researchers discovered the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and deciphered its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease meaning treatment is now via antibiotics and not surgery. Dr Fiona Wood (British born) AO is an Australian plastic surgeon who invented “spray-on skin” technology for use in treating burn victims. Professor Graeme Clark AC pioneered one of Australia’s greatest bioengineering achievements, the multi-channel cochlear implant, the first device to allow severely-to-profoundly deaf people to understand speech.

[@debkendall]

Cochlear implant, Time reference scanning - for landing aeroplanes, spray on skin for burn victims, pacemaker, hendra virus vaccine, mechanical sheep sharing clippers, many and varied types of inventions

[@ReHerakhte]

Modern atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) was developed by Australian chemists working for CSIRO in the 1950s.

[@necianicholas2878]

Australia also invented the '8 hour work day', and the word 'Selfie'. 😊

[@touchofgrayphotos]

Don't forget McCafe started in Melbourne, and now has gone worldwide, it took an Aussie to combine a cafe with ya burger!

[@jayweb51]

Although Hills Industries from South Australia were the first to commercially manufacture the rotary clothes hoist, it was in fact invented by Gilbert Toyne and Lambert Downey from Melbourne, Victoria.

[@garrymuir1442]

Whom if memory serves correct, Downey let the Patent lapse and Hills took the opportunity to grab it

[@clivegilbertson6542]

G'day Mate! And Aussies have made enormous contributions to medical health affecting millions! Like the discovery that the "helicobacter" as the cause of most stomach ulcers...The HPV vaccine...Amongst so many others...Cheers!

[@ianmaher4348]

James Harrison invented the world's first commercial refrigeration in Victoria Australia, to make ice. He was born in Scotland so we can share this one.

[@lonnie224]

Yes Australians invented all of these things and a lot more. We didnt get to where we are by sitting around waiting for something. We made it happen, pretty resourceful bunch, us Aussies. 😎🇦🇺

[@jemxs]

I'm Aussie but I haven't invented anything 😝

[@kcharles8857]

@@jemxs Then get out there an invent :)

[@jemxs]

@@kcharles8857 haha 😂

[@bushranger51]

Yes it makes me so proud to be an Aussie, we don't usually beat our own drum like a lot of others, we just get on with it and worry about the bureaucracy later.

[@lunsmann]

Aussies invent things, then have to go overseas to get those inventions developed and to market. Short sighted governments won't fund them, and small minded business owners can't see the long term profits - only immediate profit interests most Aussie business types. Very few Aussie inventions have been developed and marketed here.

[@malcolmrayner3480]

The Crane you see on top of all the high rise buildings is called the Kangaroo crane and invented in Aussie

[@matthewwakefield6321]

Breathable contact lenses (multi day leave in), PERC solar cells (dominant technology used today), vanadium flow batteries (just starting to make commercial impact but will be big is stationary storage), solar hot water, the scramjet, and the cervical cancer vaccine are ones I cant see mentioned elsewhere. Refrigerator still probably the most impactful and life saving of the lot.

[@warchief1015]

didn't invent the scram jet, we were the first to make one work, for 1 million dollars after the yanks had failed with 6 billion dollars and then our govt gave it to the seppos.

[@stanleywiggins5047]

That heavy industrial bearing invented by an Aussie back in the late 1800s, there is one from that time in a hydro power station in the USA that the maintenance engineer said "with proper maintenance it should last 1,000 years,!"

[@littleflick]

You’ll notice that the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) was involved in a couple of these discoveries. It used to be very well funded and a world leading organisation. Unfortunately they have had their budget slashed more recently. So I feel we are less likely to be world leaders in scientific research for much longer. One of my friends works for them quite high up in the meteorological department, and has on and off most of her career. They are working with a fraction of their previous staffing levels.

[@jasveender]

Such a loss for us! The CSIRO should be well supported and funded to do science and research that are not solely for profit / share holder driven ...

[@damiangordon8893]

the csiro needs to be funded to keep up the the great work they have been doing

[@jaykeinnes6793]

Science isnt liked much these days, we seem to have forgotten biology

[@pauldobson2529]

The previous LNP government directed them to steer away from stuff like climate science because it didn’t fit with their ideology. It also seemed that they wanted the CSIRO to sell inventions, presumably to their supporters, when the royalties would have kept the CSIRO very profitable.

[@1337flite]

DSTO (or whatever it is called now) however is super well funded and getting more funding. Research in Universities is pretty underfunded these days, although I expect thgat we'll see a lot of funding over the next decade or two as we commission these nuclear subs and as "sovereign" Defence is currently the big deal.

[@Wok86]

Everyone here is noting down the more impressive Aussie inventions but something that's a bit more mundane (but still used quite a lot), is the glue-bound notepad/writing-pad. It believe it was developed by a stationery maker in Tasmania in the early 1900's. (Or something like that.) Something way more important and quite a bit more recent (1993) was the 'spray-on skin' treatment/technique for burn victims. Also from memory, there were some shenanigans about it's early use but it eventually got cleared for use in a few places. I remember in school - I can't remember what subject it was, but this quote was hammered in all the time: "Necessity is the mother of all invention". Living in a place like early Australia, I believe that was definitely the case.

[@BillSaltbush]

Another Aussie, a bloke also called Sullivan, invented the 'continuous positive air pressure' (CPAP) machine. Since 1980, it has turned around and saved the lives of millions who suffer/ed with sleep apnoea.

[@theghost6412]

Thomas Angove, a winemaker from Renmark, South Australia was the one to create Casked Wine. Instead of using barrels or bottles, he created the Cask Bags for wine.

[@c8Lorraine1]

Polymer casks.

[@alanmacpherson3225]

Ah the mighty goon bag.

[@victoriagill1588]

Australia also created a lot of technology that is now used worldwide with vat controlled fermentation for wine and the screw top wine bottle (because the french were keeping the good cork for themselves)

[@julieeverett7442]

and QANTAS , the first commercial airline, the name itself stands for Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service, and it has recently had its 100th Anniversary

[@majorlaff8682]

'Aerial' not 'Air'. Sadly, it's crash landing at the moment.

[@julieeverett7442]

@@majorlaff8682 I stand corrected

[@majorlaff8682]

@@julieeverett7442 Nah, no need. Sit down, chuck a sickie, have a day off to recover.

[@adrianlemke9965]

The first airline was DELAG, founded in Germany in 1909. They operated zeppelins. The first fixed wing Airline was St Petersberg-Tampa Airboat line in 1914, Florida. The earliest in Europe was was Aircraft Transport and Travel in 1916. This airline was the forerunner of what would later be known as British Airways. The oldest continuously operating airline in the world is the Dutch carrier KLM.

[@jimlofts5433]

the victa rotary lawn mower and the Hills rotary clothes dryer, the plastic baskets for growing oysters, the thompson coupler, the Mchitch towing coupler

[@TheGonnagle]

Except that Hill didn't invent the rotary hoist

[@jimlofts5433]

@@TheGonnagle yeh but just saying rotary clothes hoist dryer I didn't think people would know what it was - but who did invent the hoist. I should and did know - might come in handy at a quiz night

[@c8Lorraine1]

It was invented in S.A

[@069diesel069]

Also Aussie inventions, frefridgerated beef in ships and THE BLACK BOX RECORDER🇦🇺👍🏽

[@tomwareham7944]

The invention of thr non returnable Boomerang commonly known as a stick was invented by an Australian indigenous person 45,000 yrs ago he also invented the bagless bagpipe known locally as a Digeridoo . More recent inventions include the left handed screwdrivers, Sriped paint, Knacker Lacquer(which adds luster to your cluster) and the footlong Condom , which was only a hit in Australia , we also invented more mundane things like the motor mower the rotary cloths line , the 40 hr working week the Neoprene stubby holder , casked wine and the selfie ,I could go on but I'm too busy invented shit , my current projects are the self peeling prawn and the non drippable meatpie .

[@jimlofts5433]

the footlong Condom has been discontinued in western australia as it is too small

[@alexradojkovic9671]

😆

[@c8Lorraine1]

👍👍👍👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@ianbell735]

Knacker laquer🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍

[@kenphillips7594]

And our clever indigenous folks refused to invent the wheel, or how to create fire or agriculture and cities. Sometimes, when I look at our current problems, I think that they were onto something.

[@johnnicholls5344]

Here's something not many people know about... "Most prominently, Adelaide became the starting point for William Bragg and his son Lawrence to share the 1915 Nobel Prize physics prize for their work in X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction and crystal structure." By the 1950s, X-ray cystallography was used in the UK to determine the structure of DNA. Lawrence Bragg was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. He and his father worked together in Adelaide on X ray diffraction before moving to the UK to continue their research work.

[@redwarpy]

My Mum worked for Ausonics she put together the components and was used to test out the machines.

[@petemedium2185]

While Alexander Fleming is often credited with discovering penicillin in 1928, Howard Walter Florey oversaw initial clinical trials and led the team that first produced large quantities of this antibiotic, which played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II.

[@petesmitt]

Florey was of English heritage.

[@petemedium2185]

@@petesmitt Australia was British until 1988, so technically, you're right.

[@jimlofts5433]

Australia invented and patented the worlds first electric Iron - from tasmania

[@ianyoung9539]

Birchalls the stationery store invented note pads with gummed spines, in Launceston.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@ianyoung9539 That’s one of my favourites lol it’s just so brilliantly simple that’s used by so many. Love and admire our other inventions as well of course 😊

[@franmal1724]

Howard Florey, as has already been pointed out actually refined the penicillin. He used the Aussie soldiers in the Middle East during the war to test out the dosages. My father had shrapnel wounds and he was one of his test subjects.

[@RodneyMcMinge]

The aviation and wifi relate to the vastness of the land and how much we have to travel. We fly a lot. In relation to the proximity of the rest of the world, we have to. We're pretty used to long distances.

[@slipoch6635]

Some more information: When the black box was first mass-produced the American government said they would not allow any plane with a black box to fly over any part of the USA unless the tech was given away for free. We also had the first city in the southern hemisphere with electric street lighting (Tamworth) About 2 - 10 years after the world's first hydroelectric dam was built we had 2 operating in Gara Gorge near Armidale and another bunch being built, some of which powered towns and large mining operations (late 1800's, early 1900's). The first solar panels were also developed in Armidale, but the government owned the tech (through a university) and blew all the money they had allocated on commercialising it on 'admin' costs, the inventor then offered to buy the patent from the government which refused to sell it, so he went back to china (where patents are pointless) and took his 2 colleagues with him and he is now worth ~$30 billion. We have just developed a solar panel that does not require silver in Australia, instead using copper. it is also the most efficient panel built in the world so far (yet to be in commercial production). Consistant street signing (give way, stop signs etc.) is also an Australian invention. Re: Penecillian - I believe he was australian born and living in scotland? maybe 2 different inventions like you said. Re: wifi - A few years ago Apple decided it didn't want to pay the patent fee for wifi (which amounts to like 5c per chip), so they contacted Qualcomm and both of them just stopped paying, Apple did try to get others on board saying the costs were onerous, which amounts to conspiracy to defraud, but they lost that case and nothing more came of it. In Tamworth the first multi-cd selector/player was invented for radio stations, but the company didn't see any value in it so didn't bother to patent it. This predated the first Japanese units by ~5 years. The periscope was first invented in WW1 by Australians to look over the top of trenches. Also the goon bag (cask wine) was invented here :) Hills hoist clothesline Electric Refrigeration My family may have the first example of a shearing shed with animal pens underneath it (it's going to get flooded out by the dam expansion in the next 10 years)

[@suelynch]

Yes to the absolute horror to Americans, an Aussie invented the electric drill. There are a lot of "Merican's" who believe Aussies are backward barbarians the beat each other over the head with clubs. There is a bearing which was invented back in the early 1900's which are still used today. They are used in super heavy duty machinery. Some of the first bearings made are still in operation today. I think we also came up with the flying fox camera system used in the game of cricket. The one I find the best is the Hill Hoist Clothes Line.

[@6226superhurricane]

mitchell thrust block bearing.

[@suelynch]

@@6226superhurricane Thank you. I couldn't remember the name.

[@holdenboy02]

backyard cricket , lol.

[@1337flite]

@@jen9996 My Nan worked at Hills packing either ironing boards or clothes lines and won an award for inventing a more efficient way of packing products - this was like in the 60s or there 'bouts.

[@paulgerrard9227]

Black and Decker Australia. It was an aussie but a us company that built the electric hand drill

[@TheAussieLeo]

A lot of Aussies have (and are proud to have) Scottish heritage. It is not rare to go to an Australian wedding and have Groom and Men in kilts. [EDIT:] In australia we take care of the bairns, til 16 all medical care can be bulk billed and medication is subsidised (much like the NHS but faster)

[@Twopennysau]

To add a couple more - we invented 3D radar (Interscan) that is used in every airport in the world - and also the first 3D sonar system (Mulloka).

[@Twopennysau]

PS it’s NOT true we invented wifi - what we did was work out how to filter it so it could be used in practical applications - just to be clear 😊

[@c8Lorraine1]

We did pat

[@kcrot2566]

Australians are great inventors hardship creates great people 💕

[@toni4729]

And some nongs

[@ingridclare7411]

@@toni4729 Hahaha. There are always nongs, wherever in the world you go.

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

Racecam is freaking epic, during the race the commentators will have conversations with the drivers while you are watching from inside the car like say a crash happens then they discuss who was at fault with the drivers lol

[@janemcdonald5372]

Back in the early days, Channel 7 hoped nothing major happened in Sydney during the weekend of the Bathurst race because pretty much all of their cameras were set up around the Mt Panorama track.

[@djollosaustralia7971]

The first military tank was invented by an Aussie, but because our military came under the British umbrella, they took credit for it. Also, the first modern submarine vessel was an Australian concept.

[@garrymuir1442]

I had thought the sub belong to Dutch/German origins?

[@TerryT304]

Originally Racecam required a Helicopter to be hovering overhead of the cars at the Bathurst 1000

[@brissiemum2]

I think Australian scientists pioneered IVF, too. Could be wrong but I’m old enough to vaguely remember hearing that somewhere.

[@cyberwaste]

The CSIRO is seriously impressive and important. Unfortunately they have to deal with politicians and politics interfering with funding and research focus.

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

Like the guy who invented the computer run solar dome, who Johnny Howard shortsightedly sent overseas.

[@davidcronk64]

This list is just from my State (South Australia) alone some might be in collaboration with others. 1. Rotary Clothes Line 2. Stobie Pole 3. Sunburn Cream 4. Torrens Land Title System 5. Plastic Toilet Cistern 6. Electoral Secret Ballots 7. Plastic Spectacle Lenses 8. Plastic Air Conditioners 9. Electro Convulsive Therapy 10. Stump Jump Plough 11. Ridley Stripper Harvester 12. Tank Bred Tuna System 13. The Big E Harvester 14. The Plastic Wine Cask 15. Chicken Salt Also from SA are Howard Florey and Sir Mark Oliphant who worked on the project to develop radar and worked on electromagnetic isotope separation which makes atomic bombs work.

[@johnnicholls5344]

Dont forget the Braggs... "Most prominently, Adelaide became the starting point for William Bragg and his son Lawrence to share the 1915 Nobel Prize physics prize for their work in X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction and crystal structure."

[@simbob26]

There are too many to mention. You are right to split the discovery and implementation of penicillin to both Scotland and Australia, but you should probably also add Germany/England to the list. Fleming was the original discoverer, but was unable to produce it in anything like a useful quantity. Florey (Australian) and Chain (German born English) were the two most responsible for making penicillin useful. That is why the Nobel Prize was shared between them.

[@Darryl_Frost]

Cochlea ear implants, stump jump plow, lawn mover, there are a few.

[@ACDZ123]

🇦🇺 invented dim sims and chiko rolls 😋

[@TheMadSparrow]

7:02 Penicillin was first discovered accidentally by Alexander Fleming (who is Scottish), then during WWII was made into a usable medicine by Aussies

[@lukemurphy5434]

It has bits and pieces , but the mechanical grain harvester developed for broad acre farming in Australia.

[@ianwhite1858]

The Scott's invented heaps of stuff but the one that has saved more lives than any single other invention is the Saline Drip

[@toni4729]

Is it my imagination or it just a plastic bag of salt water?

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

​@@toni4729a sterile bag or bottle that has saved countless human and animal lives. The invention as a good use of his time, like the wheel, if he didn't invent it, somebody would have, kudos for getting to be first, because it was sorely needed. And how many things have been invented after, to make it easier to use? A lot of brilliant inventions, rely on things that came before.

[@debbiejefford5187]

@@toni4729 lol saline helps people in so many ways, balancing, hydrating...and overall helping the circulatory and lymphatic systems that we definitely need operating at their best...I love the humour tho.

[@JohnPittaway]

I reckon the rotary clothes line & the rotary lawn mower should have got a mention, then there's the stump jump plough, the Phillips screw head, the portable threshing machine, the lathe cutting tool which allowed unskilled workers to use lathes in manufacturing, the metal alloy that melts at 100 deg. C, used to fill thin wall tubing so it could be bent without distortion, also used on Diesel tank caps to prevent the tanks exploding in a fire, the star picket fence post and I'm sure a few more will come to me later!

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

The sugar cane harvester too.

[@elizabethanderton-rg2gd]

Lets not forget the Hills hoist, lawnmower, refrigeration and the bionic ear. They are currently working on a bionic eye.

[@0Zolrender0]

We might be a small country... but in everything we do we punch above our weight. BTW.. your accent is bloody awesome.

[@toondeath5450]

Im Aussie and loving these videos man, keep goin with your channel you're good at it. Just extra info the Aussie money is waterproof, very hard to tear or rip, and very very difficult to counterfeit i think that is the biggest benefit of the polymer note. The new ones have see through sections and holograms that are impossible to reproduce on a printer. I definitely didnt know a lot of these

[@TheMadSparrow]

8:34 “I had no idea Wifi was invented” 😂

[@6226superhurricane]

a lot of aussie inventions were by scottish australians like james harrison that invented the first vapor compression refrigerator and built the first commercial ice makers. penicillin was discovered by alexander flemming but he had no way of producing it in usable quantities howard florey figured out how to grow it and refine it in usable quantities and was the first to treat people with it.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Mat did you know how the world saw Man first walk on the moon? Beamed via our Aus huge telescope dishes. Interesting doco why - in PARKES NSW and um was It Honeysuckle Creek? Theres are more inventions but not on KZbin. I found a list of 60 Aussie inventions in google. One reviewer did it, he just scrolled down the google page. - There is one some disagree on, wifi, there were types of it but not what we all use today. Great doco on KZbin Re CSIRO WIFI with the Engineers & scientists talking about how they achieved what we all use now. Oh there were court cases over who did what for years I think, Aus won the case. (Sydney born, Australian engineer by the name of John O'Sullivan, led to the invention of wireless Internet) it had something to do with space, some thing to do with Black holes in the universe. I need a refresher lol

[@scraverX]

Yes, Honeysuckle Creek is just outside Canberra, not much left there now. Was a NASA facility.

[@LindyKeddie]

Honeysuckle Creek reception was bad and the transmission was transferred to parks where the reception was better

[@elizabethscott7660]

We're a resourceful bunch. If we need something we invent it.

[@toni4729]

Another expert: What? Who?

[@Lolliegoth]

@@toni4729 Be nice

[@69GT5]

Heya mate. Just some more kewl aussie inventions. #1 is the Refridgerator???? Torpedo, Tank (yes boom boom tank), Periscope rifle, Pace maker (heart), Aspro, car radio, UTE (tray on back of car), Latex gloves, just to name a few good ones😁👍🤣

[@kcrot2566]

I’m happy to share our inventions Irish Scottish Welsh ancestors 💕

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Ah, yes Scotland invented TV. John Logie Baird. In Australia our TV awards are called LOGIE awards 😊

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

Don't worry about us in comparison to Scotland, we have a lot of scots immigrants in the family trees, including 3 of my grandparents. It just takes a good reason and a mechanical, engineer, or scientific brain, or a mixture of those talents. A lot of people invent things in their back-yard sheds, nowadays called the man-cave.. though nowadays a lot of them are bars with big sports tellies and no tools, or car sheds, full of rusty parts and tools.

[@utha2665]

Yes, the big one being the steam engine, James Watt. The pneumatic tyre, pedal bicycle, overhead valve engine, to name a few. Here's one that will upset a few of us Aussies, AFL with many innovations in the early evolution of the game and Scots were founders of the Essendon Football Club. The list is far too long to list them all, here's the wiki link. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries

[@tropicaussie4572]

The population is approximately 26 MILLION now . The reason the population is relatively small in comparison to its geographic size is that two thirds of Australia is hot arid dry busted ass desert . Australia is definitely a world leader in medical research !

[@meghanvidler9147]

The penicillin one - we didn’t discover penicillin but improved it and the delivery method. One of the more important ones not mentioned here is the jaws of life for cutting people out of cars. Oh we also invented the rotary clothesline and corrugated fencing - less important but still used worldwide.

[@who-gives-a-toss_Bear]

Arthur James Arnot (26 August 1865 - 15 October 1946) was a Scottish electrical engineer and inventor, best known for patenting the world's first electric drill when he was in Australia.

[@gamortie]

2:37 I was working in the central cash office of a major bank in Melbourne when the original polymer $10 note came out in 1988

[@colinturnbull9619]

The ute was invented here by Ford Australia

[@georgemoore7186]

One they missed was the rotary clothes hoist, it made hanging clothes much easier for women from the late 40's forward, that was long before clothes dryers, for those that do not know what a "Hills Hoist" was/is, instead of having to keep picking up a heavy basket full of wet clothes and moving it several times, women could just swing the empty part of the line to them, they could wind it down low while hanging the clothes and then when the washing was on the line, wind it back up in the air

[@MrBroady02]

Not only did Australia invent polymer bank notes, they manufacture them for other countries.

[@Picolinni]

We also invented a bunch of agricultural equipment that the entire world relies on these days. The rotary and stripper headers were both invented here.

[@jettstream2886]

The rock rake as well

[@freelanceopportunist559]

Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why Australia led the way in areas like aviation, communications,, refrigeration, and diy- electric drills, lawnmowers ect, because we've had to find ways to do things for ourselves simply because there's no other way

[@SewHealthy8]

The cochlear implant for assisting people to hear. You could probably do a whole episode on Australian Medical innovations. We are a clever mob. I did know about all but the electric drill. & I don’t know if it an urban legend or not, but my Dad tells me every time one is mentioned.....the black boxes are actually orange....you know for hi-vis

[@FionaEm]

Australia's population is a bit higher now, at 26 million. I knew about most of these inventions, but had forgotten about the electric drill. Without it, we'd still be living in basic wattle & daub huts! Purifying penicillin for widespread use was obviously huge, too, given how many lives it has saved over the years.

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

26.6 million to be exactly. Just have to type in Australian population live clock on the internet it will tell you birth for the day. Migration for the day. Deaths for the day and current population

[@the-flatulator]

Penicillin was discovered in Scotland, however, it was an Australian who purified it the useful product it is today. Both the Scottish (Fleming) and the aussie (Florey) shared a Nobel Prize for it. For country with only a handful of people we certainly hold our own in the world of inventions.

[@akitas8165]

Actually we did not invent the flight recorder. The first such instruments were used by the French in 1939. It was in 1953 that the Australian guy commercialised the idea and incorporated a voice recorder. (Up to that time they only recorded instrument readings.) Also, Florey did not "discover" penicillin, he simply developed a better way to use it.

[@cgkennedy]

Those polymer notes for all the other countries are made at the Australian Mint.

[@DrNoClu]

News to me

[@joyelmes7814]

They are hideous things, you cannot fold them without making them unusable.

[@cgkennedy]

​@@joyelmes7814 You can fold them, but they are designed to fit in wallets and purses.

[@c8Lorraine1]

ALL polymer bank notes across the world are made at the Australian Mint

[@yonkers01]

The bank notes are made in Craigieburn Victoria by a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. The bank does the notes and the mint does the coins.

[@cathryncavaney5070]

Cochlear implant, 8 hour work day, "goon bag", stump jump plough, water saving dual flush toilet. FYI Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS FRCP (24 September 1898 - 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.

[@jemxs]

We also invented the fridge! As for WiFi, I think we made it usable rather than invented it!

[@slipoch6635]

No it was invented by a bunch of guys working at the astronomic telescopes, they were looking at something (quasars I think) that they initially thought might be some kind of communication. They tested the concept and then patented it with CSIRO, Stanford or MIT then took the patent and added some of the standards to it.

[@ydenneki]

7:10 Scottish physician Alexander Fleming showed that the penicillium mould had antibacterial properties in 1928 (and published his findings in 1929) but he never took things any further. It was Florey, 10 years later (after witnessing the German arms buildup in violation of the treaty and knowing that war was looming) that, with a gathered group of other research doctors at University of Oxford's School of Pathology, started to look at ways to isolate and concentrate the slow growing mould. (It wasn't until a few years later that somebody in the U.S.A discovered bubbling oxygen through the growth fluid sped up growth rates enormously.) As for SHARING ... They DID, as theNobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 was shared between Fleming (discovery), Florey (Team leader) and Howard Chain (lead researcher).

[@doubledee9675]

The bank notes were designed to be very easy to distinguish one from another. They are different sizes and the colours are especially bright, with different colours for the different values.

[@rongt859]

The Australian mint makes bank notes for countries and I think Malaysian bank notes are printed in Australia

[@yonkers01]

The bank notes are made in Craigieburn Victoria by a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. The bank does the notes and the mint does the coins.

[@peterlinsley4287]

The rotary cloths line and the rotary lawnmower.

[@Bellas1717]

Many of the polymer bank notes used around the world have been manufactured and supplied by Australia.

[@leglessinoz]

All of the other countries use tech licensed by an Australian company to make their polymer notes.

[@Bellas1717]

@@leglessinoz Yes, they do now. My comment was referencing the seventeen countries that started with Australia manufacturing and supplying through NPA, prior to licensing to manufacture their notes for themselves being handed over.

[@cgkennedy]

The USA scientists wanted the technology for the polymer notes free of charge. Reserve Bank and CSIRO said no. That's why they went for water hungry technology for cotton notes.

[@debbiejefford5187]

@@cgkennedy that is the second time I have read that...the USA wanting technology for free....why? Would they ever hand anything over for "free"? They are a capitalist nation that routinely overcharges their citizens especially in medicine.

[@dennisheape971]

An Aussie, David Warren was the one who invented the "Flight Data" recorder and the " Flight Voice recorder." (Black Boxes)

[@majorlaff8682]

The long weekend for any excuse, a public holiday for a third-rate horse race, another public holiday for the monarch's birthday which is not held on his/her birthday, and yet another public holiday to celebrate the country's name: Australia Day, sickies to go watch the cricket, four weeks annual leave, long-service leave, holiday leave loading (more pay for being off than for being at work). There's probably more.

[@lindalee-brown5539]

In Victoria Dan Andrews declared the day BEFORE the AFL grand final a public holiday. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@johncoyle777]

Rotary lawn movers were invented in Australia as was the rotary cloths hoist. Also ship refrigeration.

[@kenlyneham4105]

Scotsman, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin and its properties but wasn't able to produce usable amounts. Howard Florey led a team that was able to do just that, although, they didn't have the funds to continue it until America came on the scene with the needed funds. There are many other inventions attributed to Australians, like the cochlear implants, the rotary lawn mower, the rotary clothes-line, spray on skin, artificial pacemaker, the first full length movie (Ned Kelly), wine casks and many more.

[@leglessinoz]

Paracetamol was first put in pill form by a Melbourne pharmacist. Before that it was a powder. The stump jump plough was invented in 1876 by Smith and Smith.

[@bluesonthehill]

Also the car radio, the first T.V. was invented in Au at the now Ballarat school of mines but patented in the U.S. after a close race.

[@c8Lorraine1]

The Selfie

[@PiersDJackson]

As a scot, important inventions are: Cochlear Implant (aka Bionic Ear), wine cask / boxed wine (aka Goon Bag), Rotary Lawnmower, Rotary Clothesline, Stump-jump Plow, the over-horizon radar, spray on skin, plastic lens glasses, multifocal glasses, Winged Keel in sailing.

[@trueaussie9230]

Before the USA had fully tested its 'invisible to radar' Stealth Bomber, Aus had perfected the Over The Horizon RADAR that can 'see' it.

[@jennyreilly1151]

Being isolated we have to be pro active in many things to move forward.... Can't wait on the rest of the 🌏 We are an awesome bunch when you get to know us ✋😉 As other comments advise there are many more inventions we are proud of 🇦🇺🇦🇺 💙

[@AUmarcus]

David Warren invented the FDR and CVR....Cockpit Voice Recorder. Qantas actually named one of their a380's after him.

[@basilpunton5702]

SRS Airbag. The yank airbag is dangerous for people wearing seatbelts. So in Australia the Seat-Belt Restrain System was designed. All Australians wear seatbelts while travelling in cars. At the same time the designers developed the first seamless airbag. More lives are saved by this than most things mentioned in the video.