American reacts to Aussie Inventions You Might Not Know About

[@cgkennedy]

That Dish was used in the Australian movie, The Dish. They relayed the signal from the moon landing in July 1969 to Houston and the world.

[@daciousinoz6028]

Although the truth is the vision came from Honeysuckle Creek observatory, Parkes did the audio track.

[@mehere8038]

@@daciousinoz6028 acually the first step & audio of "one small step for man" came from Honeysuckle, the later, much clearer footage of the moonwalk & assosiated audio came from Parkes. First steps were supposed to come from California, but the tech guy there forgot to flip the footage that was coming in upsidedown, so the back up footage from the barely in range Honeysuckle creek was therefore better quality for broadcast. Parkes was still out of range for vision & audio at that point

[@terencemcgeown2358]

And 2 words werre actually lost during transmission & Armstrong has been misquoted this entire time though he set the record straight after several years being back on Earth to several reporters.

[@rjswas]

@@terencemcgeown2358 And he laid a few on a conspiracy nut job lol.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@daciousinoz6028 Honeysuckle Creek was taking the main signal. Eight minutes later the Moon was in the Parkes main detector's field-of-view and NASA switched to Parkes.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

Here's a few. Ultrasound, refrigeration, pickup truck. There are hundreds more.

[@Nyarlathotep63]

.. grain augers, now used globally.

[@nolaj114]

Vegemite is made from yeast extract and is a spread, most commonly eaten on buttered toast or bread - though has other uses. It has a strong savoury (umami) flavour and quite salty so is best used sparingly. People trying it for the first time make the mistake of using too much or just tasting it on its own. It's a taste a lot of Aussies grew up with from childhood. The jingle goes: "We're happy little Vegemites, as bright as bright can be We all enjoy our Vegemite for breakfast, lunch and tea..." And so Aussies will often use the expression "happy little Vegemite" !

[@warrenturner397]

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[@brettbridger362]

For a context, think of spreadable soya sauce. In fact you can use vegemite as a beef stock or soya sauce replacement in cooking.

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Vegemite is the leftover yeast made from Creating Beer 🍺 🎉 Make Toast, Use plenty of Butter, and a small fingernail worth of Vegemite.. A VERY THIN AMOUNT !!!!!! It's to strong for foreigners 😂

[@shaneb4612]

On top of the Vegemite, you put a poached egg yummy as.

[@mehere8038]

just think of it as pure salt & apply accordingly :)

[@6226superhurricane]

the first practical refrigerator was invented in australia. the victa lawnmower was the first engine over rotary blade lawn mower the same as is still used today. before that they were cylinder mowers or engine behind rotary mowers. penicillin wasn't discovered by an australian but it wasn't any use until howard florey figured out how to produce it and use it as a medicine. spray on skin for burns victims electric drill race cam

[@daveofyorkshire301]

_In 1913, American Fred W. Wolf invented the first home electric refrigerator, which featured a refrigeration unit on top of an icebox. Mass production of domestic refrigerators began in 1918 when William C. Durant introduced the first home refrigerator with a self-contained compressor_ _In 1805, an American inventor, Oliver Evans, designed a blueprint for the first refrigeration machine, but he never built a concept. It wasn't until 1834 that the first practical refrigerating machine was built by Jacob Perkins based on Oliver Evans' design to cool temperatures using a vapor compression cycle_

[@6226superhurricane]

@@daveofyorkshire301 The first practical vapor compression refrigeration system was built by James Harrison, a Scottish Australian. His 1856 patent was for a vapor compression system using ether, alcohol or ammonia. He built a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky Point in Geelong, Victoria, and his first commercial ice-making machine followed in 1854. Harrison also introduced commercial vapor-compression refrigeration to breweries and meat packing houses, and by 1861, a dozen of his systems were in operation.

[@6226superhurricane]

@@daveofyorkshire301 Jacob Perkins, built the first working vapor-compression refrigeration system. It was a closed-cycle device that could operate continuously.[7] A similar attempt was made in 1842, by American physician, John Gorrie,[8] who built a working prototype, but it was a commercial failure.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@6226superhurricane You do know 1805 for design and 1834 for implementation is before your claimed 1856? Why are you claiming the first when it obviously wasn't? Are you arguing it wasn't commercial and didn't count as first?

[@6226superhurricane]

@@daveofyorkshire301 i was very clear in my original comment that he invented the first practical refrigerator. refrigeration as a concept was invented long before 1800 by the way. i didn't state that he was first to build a prototype, or that he was first to try to commercialize refrigeration. he was the first to build a practical refrigeration system, meaning he was the first to build working refrigeration that was functional and able to be produced and sold. nobody before him had invented a refrigeration system that worked efficiently, had an application and was worthwhile manufacturing.

[@bigoz1977]

Also the first electric drill, aeroplane emergency escape slides among other things 👍🏻🇦🇺

[@downeyd88]

We also came up with the black box flight recorder, the pacemaker, spray on skin for burns patients. Some really cool stuff

[@bernadettelanders7306]

There are 60 Australian inventions listed on Google. It’s titled - - 60 Great Australian Inventions.

[@ptd0123]

The women on the toilet is a bit of Aussie humour

[@leandabee]

I believe the lady on the loo (toilet) photo, was trying to say wifi can even be accessed in there, because a few people can't even go to the loo without taking their phones with them, Oz humour 😅

[@Aurochhunter]

4:34 "How do you figure those types of things out?" Well, there are 2 types of people in the world: Those who just accept things the way they are and take everything for granted; and those who actually take an interest in the world they live in and strive to be productive in life.

[@mehere8038]

and ironically a lot of academics are in the former group, while a lot of tradies & "lower educated" & paid are in the latter

[@datwistyman]

Not to sure of the details because its way over my head, but if you've heard of IMAX theatre, my grandad helped the bloke to get the cameras to work properly, so with out grandad's help it may of never worked or at least may not of until year's later. 👍 We are Australian too 🙂🇦🇺

[@davidpalmer1588]

Not mention the elic drill, Aussies were pretty much isolated from Europe and America by sail. And even after the steam ship, anything big had to be built from raw materials to end product. So naturally they had to become resourceful and ingenious. Engineering, science, including medicine have always been a necessity.

[@Sticks31]

One thing you DON'T do with polymer banknotes is leave them in your pants pocket when they go in the clothes dryer. Did that once with a twenty and it shrunk to about half its normal size. I took it to a bank. They just laughed and gave me a replacement for it.

[@mariannebarker795]

That’s hilarious! I never would have thought this would happen. See you do learn something everyday

[@mariannebarker795]

Also I would of loved a pic of the normal size and shrunken size

[@6226superhurricane]

never happened to mine, were you using a gas fired drier of something.

[@mehere8038]

wow, that's a hot drier! You must get a lot of shrunken clothes too! I'd stick to the warm setting, not hot if I was you lol Normally people have to iron or put the notes into the oven to get them to shink like that & note, apparently banks are being a bit picky now as to if they replace them, due to viral videos encouraging people to intentionally shrink them

[@ericnoack1324]

One of my sons is a Chemical Engineer working for a large Australian mining company .he invented a way to wash Coal to extract more product saving his company 5% of it's product.he was sent to a low yield mine in Canada to solve their washing problems , that myfriend converts to a saving of millions of dollars. The Canadian Coal was like gold it was shipped to Japan for their high quality surgical steel manufacturing .

[@ericnoack1324]

That dish is at Parkes in NSW .Tidbinbilla in Canberra has larger dish , 4 in all ,they started the dish at the same size as Parkes at 64 metres, they then increased it to 70 metres which makes it the largest dish in the Southern hemisphere and is a joint NASA facility for deep space exploration.

[@Jordy120]

Yep, we invented Chix taking a dump.

[@lealand423]

Lol

[@davejensen7922]

The big radio receiver near the end is what the movie The Dish was based on

[@Notric]

Is that on a building? NO, the building is the base for the telescope. It is not a dish placed on a building but an entire structure designed to support the dish. lol

[@utha2665]

I think that's the Parkes Observatory that was used to transmit the pictures of the moon landing.

[@Tidus0p]

That satellite is how the world saw the first man on the moon. The signal was sent to Australia which then was able to be sent back to NASA and shown across the globe.

[@Danger_Mouse_00]

Other things invented here in Australia are, mechanical sheer shears, the tank and the torpedo. Spay on artificial skin, and anti flu medication. Refrigerator, surf ski, car radio, starting block in athletics, sunscreen and zinc cream. Solar hot water, stainless steel braces for your teeth, LaTeX gloves, Variable rack and pinion steering in vehicles. Power board and electric drill. Racecam for motor sports and anti-hacking software. These are more but that generally the well known things we all know.

[@mehere8038]

you mention anti-hacking software but leave out goggle maps?

[@BigGen222]

Don't forget the wine cask!

[@artistjoh]

I would have thought one of the most significant Australian inventions was kicking off the electric tool revolution with the invention of the first electric drill way back in 1889 by Arthur Arnot and William Brain in Melbourne. Bill Brain has to have the best name of any inventor in history.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

i think one is hands ahead of the rest - the latex disposable glove invented by Ansell as a diversification product for their condom business.

[@mehere8038]

@@ianmontgomery7534 I didn't know that, interesting. Would also explain "finger stalls" that used to be available in locations you'll now find full gloves

[@ianmontgomery7534]

@@mehere8038 Finger stalls are also called finger cots and I have used them in the electronics industry in the past and are still available.

[@mehere8038]

@@ianmontgomery7534 hmm interesting :) What's their place in electronics? I got one in a pack of suppositories many, many years ago, when I was having a medical procedure & required to have that for it. I used gloves instead, but apparently it was the norm for stuff like that in years gone by. To me that's yuck, gloves are bad enough for what I needed it for! For electronics though, if it's just one or 2 fingers that need it, that would make a lot of sense as useful. Out of interest, do you know if they were invented before gloves? I'm thinking likely, since the design is more similar to the original product than gloves are

[@ianmontgomery7534]

@@mehere8038 I used them where we were handling pcbs and wanted static protection without having to use a static strap. We just used conductive cots and handled the fibreglass edges of the pcb. They are also handy when only one or two fingers need protection. I usually now just use latex gloves when using any chemicals (like conformal coating on repairs)

[@kramdoogs]

G'day, just a tip if at some stage you have the opportunity to try Vegemite in my extensive experience try it on fresh buttered bread or fresh toast and DO NOT smother either but have a light dusting as if appealing you can always put more, rule of thumb Less Is Best...... enjoy.

[@kennethdodemaide8678]

I forgot an important one. Penicillin.

[@michaelvonblucherafaltona1994]

Parks Radiotelescope is way cool. Been there and walked on the main dish during my uni days

[@debradollisson9551]

Just an example of Aussie humour 😂

[@xymonau2468]

An Australian - Howard Florey - refined and made penicillin workable when it had existed but not been useable before. The telescope is located in Parkes, in New South Wales. I went there a few years ago. Fascinating place.

[@Rhythmattica]

See! A Beer always is a winner.

[@FaradaysRider]

Watch "The Dish" - classic Aussie comedy about the moon landing, involving that radio telescope. Very funny. Peace

[@BigAl53750]

That picture at the end is just a typically Aussie thing to do. They left out the fact that the escape chutes from aeroplanes are an Aussie invention too.

[@pythonprojectsforwindows6795]

WiFI was so cheap because they didn't license the IP. After WiFi was widely adopted, they were sued and had to pay. The patent expired 20 years ago.

[@ronaldhammer5186]

Australia invented the combine harvester.

[@mehere8038]

Did we? I know we invented a few farm machines, didn't know that one though

[@marccaillotdechadbannes6249]

Child bearing 😂

[@kenchristie9214]

C.S.I.R.O has always been called by its initials. It has never been called SIRO.

[@cottawalla]

People who work at CSIRO pronounce it SIRO when speaking it, as though it was an acronym, rather than spell out the letters as the initialism that it is.

[@kenchristie9214]

@@cottawalla That is only in recent years.

[@janmeyer3129]

I was about to say that every CSIRO scientist I’ve met has said “Siro”

[@kenchristie9214]

@@frankmcfrank7358 Up until 2015 I used to go to CSIRO regularly and it has always been the initials.

[@cottawalla]

@@kenchristie9214 I've lived and worked in Canberra all my life. My father worked at SIRO.

[@rjswas]

A little weird the ending, yeah that was Aussie humour, also remember the WiFi thing is not the internet (Americans call the internet WIFI), it's just the device you use in your home to get the internet (modem/router/wifi transmitter)

[@daveofyorkshire301]

The fluid bearing may have been invented by French civil engineer L. D. Girard, who in 1852 proposed a system of railway propulsion incorporating water-fed hydraulic bearings

[@6226superhurricane]

except it wasn't

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@6226superhurricane Are you denying the facts or it's contextual value?

[@6226superhurricane]

@@daveofyorkshire301 george michell invented the michell thrust bearing. the name is kind of a giveaway. you seem to have no understanding how invention works.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@6226superhurricane There you go answering a question I didn't ask... I didn't deny who invested what... You just asserted it again. When did he invent this item? From what I see it was patented in 1905, a little after 1852. _The hydrostatic bearings have been known since 1851 when the first hydraulic bearing was introduced with the invention of L. D. Girard - a pressurized water-fed bearing. By 1918, the equations for load, flow, and friction had been compiled by Lord Rayleigh_

[@owenroberts1168]

The problem is mate that the useless government here doesn’t back theses people up and take on the projects. So the investors go overseas to get the recognition

[@ronaldmasters1225]

CSIRO invented the first digital computer and thought well thats interesting shoved it aside and never took out a patent. So though we invented it we get no royalties.

[@WMH-MUSIC]

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[@jeffkeeley4594]

And the CSIRO that is mentioned is pronounced as see-ess-eye-are-oh.

[@Danger_Mouse_00]

Yeah that invention video didn't tell you much. There's a lot more we invented.

[@Fiona-zp2qt]

'coz some of us go to the toilet watching videos. Like I am right now. SORRY. Too much information 🤭

[@shaneb4612]

We all do it... hehe. TMI never.

[@ChrishReacts]

Never too much information 😅😅

[@----.__]

There's never too much information. What colour were your undies? (jokes)

[@shaneb4612]

@@----.__ Lucky red ones today. I'm also wearing a matching red cape. Nothing else just the undies & cape.

[@AussiePom]

America has stealth aircraft in it's military designed to be hard to detect and intercept with missiles. However the Americans couldn't detect them either so if one crashed they wouldn't know where to look for it. So Australians invented a radar that can track stealth aircraft by tracking the air turbulence behind them in flight. The Americans were overjoyed. We also invented the baby safe and sound capsule for transport in cars. If a woman has a baby in an Australian hospital she's not allowed to take the baby home unless there's a safe and sound baby capsule fitted in the car. Microsoft claimed to have invented making WiFi usable for all. But John O'Sullivan of CSRIO had patented his invention to make WiFi usable for all. Microsoft took him to court in the US and lost and had to pay John over 400M in damages (morning coffee money for them) and the stealing of patent rights.

[@----.__]

Seems Microsoft have been stealing since their original DOS. Bill Gates hasn't really created anything himself.

[@wallycover7552]

There are dozens of more Aussie inventions

[@downeyd88]

We have come up with a crazy amount of inventions somehow.

[@louisestevenson5102]

Vegimite is full of vitamin B

[@julesmarwell8023]

the MQ--28 IS OUR LATEST DEVELOPMENT.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Marmite predates Vegimite by a long way...

[@mehere8038]

so?

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@mehere8038 Is it the statement or the fact you don't like?

[@mehere8038]

@@daveofyorkshire301 it's the totally off topic & irrelevent comment I don't like having my time wasted on reading. You probably should check what video you are on before commenting, don't you think? Since your comment had no place on this video. I like to read comments that are related to & relevant to the video I am watching when reading comments, rather than an insecure pom trying to get attention for nothing

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@mehere8038 I've opened the topic for you to dismiss it in my topic, get it? The video reference Vegimite. How is my statement off topic? Vegimite is Marmite from Australia...

[@mehere8038]

​@@daveofyorkshire301 well maybe it is, I wouldn't know, since I don't know what "vegimite" is. Vegemite however has as much in common with marmite as stock cubes or haggis, that were both invented before it, yes, I mean why don't you go the whole hog & compare Vegemite's invention date to yorkshire pudding? Would be as relevant as what you have said to date, wouldn't it (which means completely & utterly irrelevent) You should try Vegemite sometime & see the vastly superior taste to anything you have invented in your country

[@karenstrong8887]

We didn’t invent WiFi we just made it work. We did invent car baby capsules and baby car seats. Booster seats for older children. The list is really long and there are things most wouldn’t expect. There are other videos on our inventions. My Grandfather was an inventor but he passed away at 43. My Granddaughter is a research Scientist who has already been published in the Science Journals last year. She will not finish her Masters Degree or Doctorate until April. For 3 years she has taught 3rd year University in Chemistry and Biology while doing her degree plus two others. That is why it annoys me when someone makes a stupid video saying we have low IQ’s or Literacy rates. That isn’t why other Countries send their children here for High School and University. You cannot get into Uni here playing sport, they don’t have sports teams. They are there to learn.

[@daciousinoz6028]

QPSX was invented in Telstra labs. It's used in every 802.1 device (laptop, mobile, tablet, 3,4,5g device) in the world. Without it, the unwired internet would not work. Telstra receives royalty payments on the patent from every manufacturer around the world.

[@mehere8038]

you should keep an eye on the wiki inventions page & update it as needed. It annoys me that other countries appear to have a lot more, just because their people are more interested in promoting themselves than actually inventing

[@daveofyorkshire301]

1830: The first lawn mower was invented and patented in 1830 by Edwin Budding outside Gloucestershire, England. In 1902, Ransomes of Ipswich, another English company, produced the first commercially purchasable lawn mower powered by an internal combustion gas engine. Webb introduced a proto-type re-mote controlled battery mower at the 1959 Chelsea Flower show, a year later they introduced the first walk behind battery mower.

[@mehere8038]

Same as Henry Ford didn't invent the motorcar, but he invented one that was practical for the masses to buy. The victor lawnmower was the lawnmower version of that car. Never claimed to be the "first", or even the first electric, just the first mass produced at mega scale & actually affordable to the average person. Instead of using state of the art, super expensive & super heavy builds, Victor built his prototype with billycart wheels & a peach tin as a fuel can & production line basically kept the same parts, revolutionising lawn mowing in the same way Ford did with driving

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@mehere8038 Henry Ford did NOT invent anything. He took a production line that had been used in textiles for decades (textiles incidentally also created the technology for automation and computerisation long before anything else) and applied it to car manufacture. He took cars being built elsewhere and applied a production line process to its fabrication. None of this was new, only putting two different things together was...

[@6226superhurricane]

victa lawnmower was the first engine over rotary blade pushmower. the first of the modern style lawnmowers we still use today.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@6226superhurricane When was that? _James Sumner of Lancashire patented the first steam-powered lawn mower in 1893. His machine burned petrol and/or paraffin (kerosene) as fuel_ _Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies introduced a petrol engined mower in 1902, and led the market until the First World War_

[@6226superhurricane]

@@daveofyorkshire301 you need to work on your comprehension skills

[@julesmarwell8023]

GHOST BAT

[@fredfred6644]

Drop bears.

[@suemontague3151]

Apparently you have to pay to subscribe lol, I'm certainly not, no other reactors charge 😂

[@ChrishReacts]

😅 no charge to subscribe. Only if you want the perks mate. 🙂

[@suemontague3151]

@ChrishReacts no worries mate, cheers

[@ChrishReacts]

Cheers! 🍻 I've had a few 😅

[@suemontague3151]

@@ChrishReacts lol cheers means thanks in Australia 🇦🇺

[@ChrishReacts]

🤣 cheers!

[@garryfrater7536]

Just watch the video for longer before you make silly statements and you might just learn something but you being Americian I doubt it although the lawn mower was invented in the UK it is called a roller mower the mower that us AUSSIES invented is a rotory mower its lighter than a roller mower and eaiser to push the building your looking at is a radio telescope and the radio telescope in the new south wales town of Parks is the reason we on earth could see the moon landing the signal was beamed to Parks and from there to the rest of the world the reason the last shot was of a woman on her phone on the toilet is that most people use their phones there. your welcome. Oh i almost forgot the STUMP JUMP PLOW lifts the blade of the plow over stumps meaning the plowman doesn't have to un hitch the horse lift the plow hitch the hores back up and they can just keep on going saving time saving the plow blade as well as meaniing the farmer doesn't have to dig the stump out and makes use of more soil to grow food on before you could go around the stump but that doesn't make for straight forrows and again less crops. We also invented the aircraft saftey slide.

[@Stargaze314]

Harsh.

[@nswinoz3302]

You managed covered the point on the plow well enough for me to not criticise the harshness of your response. Just spell the township of Parkes correct please! NSW in Oz

[@shaneb4612]

Very harsh bro. I thought Parkes was only famous for the Elvis impersonation contest, hehe.

[@fredfred6644]

@@shaneb4612 And the big Telescope.

[@shaneb4612]

@@fredfred6644 Yer I've seen the movie the Dish.

[@RobertHoward-k8r]

Most people are smarter than you

[@shaneb4612]

Harsh dude...

[@utha2665]

Damn, I hope you feel better about yourself now.

[@vegasvisitor-o3e]

@user-jr1bl6tc3k You're a bit of a prick. Did YOU feel smart saying that? Cause it sure didn't come across as too intelligent.

[@RobertHoward-k8r]

Always start at the lowest common denominator

[@mehere8038]

@@RobertHoward-k8r there's 2 types of people in this world, those that see that others are smarter than them & so educate themselves & raise themselves to that level & those that see that others are smarter than them & so attack those smarter people & call them "dumb" so as to convince themselves they are not as dumb as they really are. Which group do you think you fit into?

[@The_Resistance_1961]

I always add a heaped tea spoon of it in a bolognaise sauce or goulash.

[@RickyisSwan]

I read that the CSIRO are in the process of perfecting a bionic eye. Imagine what that would do for blind people? 🇦🇺🦘