New Zealand Inventions that Changed the World

[@ingramdw1]

I think the most important one missing from this collection is the Hamilton Jet.

[@vickicurline9116]

I agree, my Father worked for Hamilton's for nearly 40 years, he had one arm and was fantastic with the jet boats, did the Hamilton spin perfectly

[@patrickmckoy5491]

Absolutely agree

[@amikawellesley4694]

The jet engine wasn’t invented by Mr Hamilton he took someone else’s design and pattern it under his name

[@patrickmckoy5491]

@amikawellesley4694 check your facts he pioneered it's development in 1949/50 , I was very involved with jetboats I the late 70s hand making different manifolds & exhausts for racing engines on different types of engines for South Island rivers

[@amikawellesley4694]

@@patrickmckoy5491 Fact is he was working with my grandfather in the design of the water propulsion system and patient my grandfathers work under his name giving the actual engineer no credit.

[@TonyWhite-x3c]

The airtight round tin-lid invented by a Dunedin tinsmith to keep food and biscuits airtight and food safe, used internationally.

[@65adventures]

You left out the Hamilton Jet engine which was the first thing I thought of LOL

[@JonnyDredd]

yes I thought of that first too

[@mikejones-go8vz]

Same

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

The Hamilton Jet was not an engine, it was a water jet pump connected to an engine. Brilliant invention, but not an engine.

[@nicholassmith787]

Instant coffee was invented in invercargill by strange coffee and also the Bobby pin was invented in invercargill

[@zenaburgess2855]

It's Strang coffee, and the building is still there, off Esk st, almost opposite the Council offices, behind another newer building.

[@geraldperyman6535]

I think he refined it to the point where it was useable.

[@lanceallen5092]

The rotary (spray) portable sheep dip was invented by Ian Ferguson of Invercargill.

[@libbysevicke-jones3160]

Looking forward to the next video, there are plenty more you can add on. Good video - well done 👍

[@pugtimusprime5074]

BUT WE FORGOT the pavalovaaaaaaaaaa

[@kentl7228]

Pavlova with other names, has existed for about two centuries before NZ or Australia argued over inventing it.

[@NexTime00]

@@kentl7228 Evidence?????? Source??????

[@kentl7228]

@@NexTime00 “To start with, we undertook a forensic examination of both the Kiwi and Australian legends, and new facts [were] quickly revealed that flip the narrative completely,” Utrecht said. “By the 18th Century, large meringue constructions incorporating cream and fruit elements could be found in aristocratic kitchens across German-speaking lands, so the thing we call a pavlova today is actually more than two centuries old.” "Soon, she said, women in middle-class European kitchens began creating meringue cakes topped with whipped cream, nuts and fruit or fruit preserves. Utrecht said Europe was in turmoil with the Napoleonic wars in the 1800s and when people moved and settled in other lands, the pavlova-like desserts went with them. “By 1860 you can find it in Great Britain, Russia and North America,” she said. “I have made a couple of cakes from 1850 that I have served to guests and asked what it was, and they say pavlova. But I tell them it’s not, it’s a schaum torte, which means ‘foam cake’ in German.” Utrecht said recipes for shaum torte arrived in South Australia in the lead-up to World War Two, when there was a large influx of German immigrants."

[@kentl7228]

What we want to believe and what reality is, disappointing can be to some. Like Richard Pearce being first to fly. Bullshit sorry. In fact, every second damn nation has someone that supposedly were first before the Wright Brothers. Even though none of them invented the wind tunnel, custom engines and invited the press... Pearse was a clever dude but there was no aerofoil shape to the wing

[@NexTime00]

@@kentl7228 Source??????

[@kerrywerder]

the Yale lock, the spare wheel and tyre for cars, first franking machine, self sealing lid ( as per paint tins ) first successful replacement of diseased heart valves with artifical valves first succesful pre-natal blood transfusion

[@kiwibonsai2355]

Electric fence. ✌️

[@spacecadet35]

The uninterruptable electric fence.

[@brettjones4553]

My father Lionel Jones invented the drench gun on Paparatu Station. He sold the patent for $35 pounds and purchased a Rolex. I have the Rolex, my brother the patient documents and prototype.

[@newzealandstories5621]

That's pretty cool. I wonder if he could've got a bigger offer if he shopped around?

[@Cobra427Veight]

That's cool , but what a bummer, sure think the royalties over the years would have been $$ more ! .

[@mockbattles]

The Hamilton Aqua Jet. Aerial Top Dressing. The Ski Plane.

[@mikekilkelly2138]

spotting knives

[@Jabbatan]

My grandfather invented the solid state electric fence in levin he founded speedrite that was later acquired by Gallaghers

[@thecommissi0ner252]

We've been inventing things before we even existed

[@Willyz6]

Egg beater is impressive, but what about the bucket bong lol😂

[@IcchiNutz]

Or indeed, the OG

[@obee1kanobee]

John Brittens race bike ! Beautiful piece of history

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

Brilliant, but not an invention, just a very advanced design of an existing product.

[@MajesticDemonLord]

New Zealands best invention: 'Yeah, Nah, Yeah' - Did you agree with it or disagree with it - perfection.

[@grahamhutton1633]

I remember when Peter Snell was training between olympics by distance running in the bay of islands. My cousin and I were able to run with him, something pretty cool for a bunch of under 10 year olds.

[@oldcodger4672]

The HOLEP prostate surgery procedure was invented in New Zealand in the 1990s. It has many advantages over the traditional TURP prostate rebore. Its disadvantages include a steep learning curve, and the cost of the robotic lasers. I’m up for the chop soon. My surgeon has a plaque, congratulations on his 2000 HOLEP operations. Very reassuring.

[@kiwiingrid]

Hokey pokey ice cream.

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

Oh, yeah, Hokey Pokey! Yum.

[@TonyWhite-x3c]

Hamilton Jet boat by Bill Hamilton. Gave the world jet boats used internationally.

[@billhudson2722]

The fortified pa with trench/bunkers for defence, spring hair-pin, wire strainer for farm fences, thermette for boiling water over an open fire, steam pasteurising for butter, continuous fermentation for beer-brewing, electric fence for pastoral farming, farm bike for pastoral mobility, base isolators for seismic safety, Tullen snips for general cutting, hand pump for freezer bags...

[@kishidabu]

pineapple lumps!

[@David-zh9qr]

I’ve seen an ad on the box that says we are also responsible for the pineapple lump.

[@spacecadet35]

New Zealand also invented the high speed dental drill.

[@peterwhite7252]

I just remember the low speed one. and the sadistic dental nurse. Hastings NZ

[@spacecadet35]

@@peterwhite7252 - That's why the Wellington Dental College was tasked with making a better dental drill. A I remember the dental nurses. There is a reason we called it the torture house.

[@mikejones-go8vz]

@@peterwhite7252I’m sure she travelled the country, but she let me play with the mercury on my hand 😳

[@lloydbeattie9370]

Yeah the murder house . Where I got a gum infection and didn't know until my teeth started falling . Thanks to all dental nurses from the sixties .

[@charzemc]

AJ Hackett didn't create bungee jumping, he modified a tribal tradition for men from PNG, I believe. They used vines & AJ introduced the use of elastic.

[@idenhlm]

Pentecost island actually, a strong custom tradition in Northern Vanuatu. I do wonder if proper recourse has eventuated in regards to the profiteering of the custom.

[@bjammin187]

My dad helped invent the device that could be strapped on a bull to ‘mark’ the back each cow that he set, serviced, as part of selective breeding programs. Whatawhata research station. Love you and miss you, dad.

[@nooneisrightallthetime-zv7hs]

Damn not the back shot marker

[@mikejones-go8vz]

@@nooneisrightallthetime-zv7hs😂

[@reuben3868]

Trench warfare

[@MrKeyy-lt7gf]

Romans did that

[@harrycurrie9664]

So where's the #8 wire ? and the Taranaki gate ?

[@frednutz1604]

Probably still in Taranaki 😂

[@timwoodhams217]

Whole bunch of dairy industry inventions, start with extraction of milk protein fueling the protein supplement industry.

[@bensdad123]

HOW COULD YOU LEAVE OUT INSTANT COFFEE

[@johnforde7735]

The Hamilton Jet Boat.

[@TheChirozachtor]

NEW ZEALAND MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!! (A lesser known random invention would be the SWER (Single wire earth return) power lines

[@walkerhjk]

Ernest Rutherford lived in Havelock on the Marlborough Sounds

[@DrLeavingsoon]

The Thermette - if you don't know what that is, you're missing out on the real NZ road trip.

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

Oh, I remember the Thermette all right. My Dad had one! Miss you, Dad.

[@greggiles7309]

just shared i didnt know about the egg beater,

[@morganlefey]

The Taranaki Gate, but I’m not sure that it’s been widely adopted outside New Zealand.

[@alanh9159]

I’ve seen many in Queensland whilst trail riding.

[@nzlotrfan]

Wow this is cool, didn't know half of this!

[@morganlefey]

‘Ratchet fence wire strainer’ - used on wire fences to tighten the wires.

[@karlrensburg3472]

I am pretty sure kiwis have added a few more inventions since this was edited.

[@wheelbarrow01]

Don't forget the Swanndri (or bush shirt), invented by William Broome.

[@craigmooney3744]

played a part in the oiling of driza-bone coats

[@bk2544]

Yeah like others said I can’t believe you missed the jet boat

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Wonderful

[@TheLolism]

Instant coffee powder too, made by David Strang in Invercargill in 1889!

[@avgeek021]

I am from nz 😊 this makes me feel 😢well a thing

[@marsspacex6065]

We also invented a way to make our whole country invisible on maps 😂. You can’t hit what you can’t see.

[@mximm]

Man I love my country

[@a10n37]

learnt recently about the "superflite". its a trampolining tool used to record time of flight used world wide

[@wantsumbread9586]

Instant coffee was invented in Invercargill

[@leeroy77]

Yep, I heard about that one just after I finished making the video.

[@mirandahotspring4019]

The electric fence was a Kiwi invention.

[@battleheights]

my grand father invented the Campion calf crush a device for holding live stock also you forgot the Zorb

[@shyd00d]

where is the swing lift for moving 40 ft containers or the dremel?

[@Battleneter]

So mostly the South Island doing the heavy lifting, nothing ever changes :P

[@katetailby6334]

1st life jacket designed in 1863 after the sinking of the Orpheus?

[@bloomsaddis8928]

I know the New Zealand Anthem -" I still call Australia Home"

[@JamesKeuPita]

The main one missing is when a John Hamilton created the first water engine for cars

[@jbrassic5434]

We also invented refrigerated shipping

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

No

[@Kiwionwing]

Yes anchor and sheep meat industry ​@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

[@Tony_7791]

Instant coffee was invented in NZ in the late 1800s

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

Ethiopia had it for hundreds of years.

[@karlmorgenstern2316]

@@Nathan-ry3yuLOL.

[@cadifan]

@@Nathan-ry3yu They still had to crush the coffee. So not instant.

[@notalizard-f3l]

thank god you included the bob semple tank

[@philnorman9425]

First man to fly was a German aviator Gustave Whitehead in 1901. Also, two Tinsmiths from Dunedin invented the triple rim can sealing lid, still in use today as used on paint tins, food cans etc.

[@kentl7228]

It was the Wright Brothers. Every second nation seems to have someone that was first, but they all never thought to prove what they did, just claim it after the Wright Brothers did it.

[@TonyWhite-x3c]

Harold Gillies and his cousin Archibald McIndoe both ENT surgeons invented plastic surgery as we know it today. The Gillies forceps are used world wide in modern surgery.

[@Al-vb6js]

And aren’t there McIndoe scissors?

[@paulcosbrook1952]

I forgot my wife's uncle Jack Bruce invented the electric coffin hoist. He was a grave digger at Mangere Lawn Cemetry. Jack achieved this by welding together car axles.

[@paulthomson2288]

Hamilton Jet, Britten Motorcycle...gumboots as fashion wear...

[@stephengibbs4372]

Saw a kiwi guy really well dressed at a resort in Fiji in may, wearing a pair of red bands 😂 had to say lookin good.

[@paulthomson2288]

@@stephengibbs4372 awesome!

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

The Britten motorcycle is brilliant, but not an invention, just a very advanced design of an existing product.

[@tinyengineshed34]

We also invented the 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive wheel arrangement. Technically.

[@AWSgraphics]

how could you have forgotten the jetboat?

[@paulcosbrook1952]

A Pahiatua farmer named Norman Daysh invented mechanical milking machine. In 1917 it was fine tuned dy De Lauval and sold.

[@dannyfrisken2393]

My dad invented the chassis straightner, David Frisken CHCH legend panelbeater

[@pumpkinlife6209]

That's cool

[@georgemulligan]

What about the Hamilton jet for boats

[@ray.shoesmith]

If the Bob Semple Tank doesnt make this list, you dont get a sub.

[@splidude]

You missed nekminit

[@lindsayjanes7203]

The paper clip and the machine for dispensing things eg stamps.

[@kiwiadventures3773]

Britten Motorcycle, Deer net gun, Refrigerated meat for ships 1876, Voting for Women. Gibbs quad ski, Wobble yoke MCHP Stirling engine. Milking Machine and pineapple lumps. Most things Australia has claimed

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

Refrigeration of meat for transport originated in Australia

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

Pineapple lumps! My favourite. Yum.

[@ianwebb3496]

The Hills Hoist washing line. (Yeah, I know it's actually an Aussie invention, but turn about's fair play, right?)

[@65adventures]

Nah we don't need to cheat to compete mate, we're good enough on our own 👍

[@girlsblouse7866]

@@65adventures What about the second man to scale Mt Everest?

[@kri-m19]

Chur, I didn't know about half of these

[@say123154]

The pavlova!

[@phaestor]

Bruce McLaren. G.O.A.T

[@bchantz3056]

The spare tyre

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

What happened to number 5?

[@alanh9159]

Also missed farm bikes (motorcycles).

[@deanedeane4318]

Awsum video Bro !!! 😉🙃😎

[@newzealandstories5621]

Thanks mate.

[@davidhayes8670]

How about refrigerated shipping.

[@williamtoohey9714]

Yes, didn't you Kiwis invent the Pavlova?

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

YES WE DID! Sod off, Australia, you stole it from us!

[@MrModeldad]

The postage stamp vending machine. I can just remember them. A South Island invention. We didn't invent the bobby pin. We improved it by putting in the crimps which grip the hair better. Another Mainland contribution.

[@bb21again.67]

Poms say that bungee jumping was first done by the Oxford Uni' dangerous sports club.

[@craigD712dec]

Pearce was the first to ever fly but as usual the USA has to be the best and first at everything. Yes the Hamilton jet was a phenomenal invention in the industry

[@carrier411]

there are more inventions for a second video - Bill Hamilton - jet boat engine, Bill Gallagher - electric fence units...

[@JamesSmith-ui2hv]

Jet boating was used by the American Army well before some kiwi try to claim this invention as theirs , if it wasn't for NZ the world will still be flat / ''an example to the world'' as you constantly repeat that

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

FFS, The Hamilton Jet is NOT an engine, it is a water jet pump fitted to and engine. Brilliant invention, but NOT an engine.

[@debeeriz]

continous fermentation for beer

[@scriblegamer]

This raised my self confidence as a kiwi

[@Sharon-yk7xm]

My father invented gold plating but it got stolen by his boss

[@Alphoric]

Yes

[@Jasheen0]

Cant forget the bob semple tank

[@thiccontro]

Guys guys we also invented lying in peace treaty's

[@Andrew-jx1ly]

the hamilton jet engine for boats

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

The Hamilton Jet is not an engine, it's a water jet pump fitted to an engine. Totally brilliant invention, but not an engine.

[@wheelbarrow01]

My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

[@roombaaaaaaaaa]

DUDE WE EXSisT

[@peterdykzeul3074]

The electric fence by Gallagers The wire strainers by Hayes The Hamilton jet Aerial topdressing

[@dipayanchakraborty4751]

Hello Sir, thanks for uploading this video, it was very informative. I am Dipayan from India.

[@bb21again.67]

Jet Boat,by Hamilton a Canterbury farmer,Marching as a sport Dunedin after WW2 ?.

[@thegamingbean953]

The wellerman shanty

[@sirn3cr045]

What about the jet boat tech, my uncle and his bros were the ones who invented it man.