Rob Reacts to... 60 Life-changing Australian Inventions!

[@rossmcconchie1316]

The joke going around Defence in the late 1990s, told in relation to Jindalee; was that an American Defence official was boasting about how US Stealth planes were flying over Australia unannounced. The Australians replied, yes we know, we've been tracking them (and provided flight paths).

[@micheledix2616]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🇦🇺

[@kerra3699]

Love it 🤣😂🤣

[@Garmoo5600]

Yes I remember my Dad telling me this story

[@alexanderdickson419]

The Jindalee radar was used to track US stealth aircraft in US airspace from Australia. (this is only possible with the right weather conditions) The Americans were sceptical until shown the flight path data. Telecom Australia used to be the prime contractor for the Jindalee projects. Six months after the tracking of stealth aircraft was revealed, the prime contract for Jindalee was handed to American company Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the F-35 stealth aircraft. The Americans gained free access to Australian technology that cost billions of dollars to developed.

[@micheledix2616]

@@alexanderdickson419 wow, didn't know that, but does sound typical of what some of our previous Governments would definitely do

[@chelsoz5563]

With regards to asking what spray on skin is. From my recollection I believe it works by taking a small sample of the patients skin mixed with cells etc, putting it in a solution and spraying it on the burn, it then stimulates the skin stem cells to create a new layer of skin.. I may have missed some details, but I think that’s the gist of it. It came to a lot of prominence after the Bali bombings in 2002 as Dr Wood used it on victims of the bombings. It’s a game changer with treatment of burns and Dr Wood is an amazing woman

[@SomeRandomPerson]

Hills Hoist: It's a hoist because it has a handle on it to raise/lower the clothes line. You lower it so it's convenient to hang/remove clothes (particularly for short people), then wind it up to keep away from the ground/pets, and to catch more breeze. Dual Flush Toilet: They're basically mandatory in most parts of the country because of water restrictions.

[@eddiel8708]

We use to use them for a merry go round when we were kids

[@IcanBePsycho]

Hills hoist was originally the Toyne’s Hoist.

[@melissabarrett9750]

Dual flush toilets... Because it takes less water to flush away your wee than it does your poo.

[@NathanPReus]

And then you combine the Hill's Hoist and the wine cask to play a round of Goon of Fortune!

[@melissabarrett9750]

@@NathanPReus 😳. Yes, one of the goon bags has been refilled with urine and you have to hope that the one that stops in front of you has wine in it.

[@eclecticapoetica]

Baby Car seats were available before 1984 but the baby capsule is more than a seat. In the 1970s Australian state governments made wearing car seat belts compulsory, and a variety of restraints for children came on the market. The inventors came up with the Baby Safety Capsule, consisting of a bassinette inside a base, which is kept in place by a seat belt. A release mechanism allows the bassinette to rotate in a crash keeping the baby more upright and distributing forces uniformly over its body. At the same time, the bassinette pushes against an impact-absorbing bubble in the base. This is much safer for the baby than a seat and seatbelt arrangement. The bassinette can be removed from the base to carry the baby around. NSW public hospitals won't let parents take a baby home by car without one. They run a hire service to back up this rule.

[@davidhuett3579]

Well explained Joe.

[@Rickxta]

In the late 50’s my parents had a child’s seat that was a plastic covered metal frame that hung over the car’s bench seat. The seat was fabric with leg holes for my little brother. I am aghast at the risk involved in this commercially produced child car seat. Thank goodness for the baby capsule.

[@anserbauer309]

Surf ski is different from a surf board. It is designed to be sat on and paddled like a kayak that won't sink in the surf. It's used by our surf lifesavers to rescue swimmers struggling in the waves (as well as recreationally, of course).

[@professornuke7562]

If you're old enough to remember the Tom Selleck series Magnum PI, you might remember that Magnum was an avid surf ski rider. These things pervaded the world to the point that they even made it to Hawaii, home of the surfboard.

[@Tully_23_32]

And they're usually poms the lifesavers are saving from drowning

[@timp1390]

The CSIRO is one of the best science groups in the world. Unfortunately the government has stripped a bunch of funding of the last few decades but they keep coming up with ingenious solutions

[@melissabarrett9750]

If we're lucky, the new government will restore much of the funding to the CSIRO that's been cut by recent (primarily Liberal Party) budget cuts. Liberal in name only (Australia's Tories).

[@davidhuett3579]

Ahhh NO!! ... NOT government/s ... only LNP governments. LNP govt (conservatives or 'torries') have always bragged about being 'supposedly' made up of 'Business' people/leaders .. yet they seem to have no idea what they are doing when it comes to running the economy. The LNP have severely defunded MANY institutions .. including CSIRO and Universities/TAFE , etc.

[@melissabarrett9750]

@@davidhuett3579 Exactly!

[@georgecurrenti]

We are an inventive bunch down here… often due to necessity. The CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is an Australian Government agency. They often partner with private companies, universities and hospitals. Mate of mine (30 years ago) worked in their metal industries research lab and developed the titanium coating applied to metal - yellow colour coating commonly used on drill bits. He is still there in a more senior capacity doing amazing work.

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

and it annoys me that certain Australian Governments have been doing their darn best to destroy CSIRO

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Another brilliant Aussie invention is the boomerang. If potential aviators had bothered to study the way that it works (with its aerofoil design) they would have discovered heavier-than-air flight years earlier than they actually did. The profile of a boomerang is identical to an aeroplane's wing, only Indigenous Australians had come up with the design tens of thousands of years ago.

[@robo4599]

.....so did the Egyptians

[@LJW55]

@Mark Anthony Hmmmm 🤔 Didn't exist eh? So what was Australia before 1901? Granted Australia became a collective nation of states under the Commonwealth umbrella in 1901 but this vast island certainly "existed"... Sorry, just being pedantic. Oh, and did they buy them or bring them to this island that didn't exist before 1901?

[@linmonash1244]

TRUE!

[@tonitrusz4943]

Aboriginal Australians had a very intricate family system. They weren't just hunters and gatherers (but farmed as well). The moiety system was also strictly followed and they didn't have the problems that inbreeding has impacted on other ancient cultures and even the Royal families. Regarding tribes and tribal lands these were taught to all young aboriginal kids growing up. They knew their tribal land and always respected adjoining tribal lands, customary to call for permission to enter neighbouring lands (to hunt ) The Bunya nut gathering ( Festival) was held every 3 years another important event for Aboriginal people. The gathering provided an opportunity for many aboriginal groups to meet for trade, exchange stories and songs, to conduct ceremonies and to observe cultural, social and kinship obligations. Once Europeans settled in the area, such a large gathering of aborigines was seen as a threat. After many years of frontier violence, laws were passed in the late 1890s removing people from their traditional lands and relocating them on reserves. This disruption meant the end of the Bunya gatherings.

[@AussieFossil]

Although traditionally thought of as Australian, boomerangs have been found also in ancient Europe, Egypt, and North America. There is evidence of the use of non-returning boomerangs by the Native Americans of California and Arizona, and inhabitants of South India for killing birds and rabbits.

[@robby1816]

CPAP is pronounced See-Pap. And when you stop breathing for up to 2 minutes at a time, a hundred times a night and wake up more tired than when you went to bed, you get used to sleeping with a mask. I've used them for decades. Absolute god-send.

[@brettbubeck242]

There is a big one missing from the farming section, they have the grain stripper but not the header harvester that is still in use today

[@professornuke7562]

I'm a Nuclear Medicine Technologist in Melbourne Australia. I use a Technegas Generator to do Ventilation/Perfusion lung scans every day for my 30+ working years. You have them in Britain, and all over the world, but the USA has steadfastly refused to allow them in the country. It's not an American invention...... It was not just Bill Burch, but a rather nice chap called Richard Gotch (he actually built the thing) who invented it.

[@madswansfan1]

Why has the US banned them?

[@ifminecrafthadfloods3659]

@@madswansfan1 it's america

[@madswansfan1]

@@ifminecrafthadfloods3659 haha

[@cgkennedy]

​@@madswansfan1 They won't pay for the technology.

[@julzhunt7790]

Necessity is the Mother of Invention. So proud to be Aussie 😊👍🏼🇦🇺

[@lauramartin7675]

Surely you remember seeing the 90's cricketers with white noses and lips? That was zinc cream (usually came in stick form) to stop sunburn. I had coloured ones for kids tennis. The spray on skin was used on victims of the Bali bombings...before the experimental treatment had been approved. But it helped so many people. The hills hoist was NOT invented by Hill. A man named Gilbert Toyne created the clothesline for his mother, then patented and started selling at fairs/shows. Unfortunately he had a very tragic life, which I suggest people read, which led to his patent not being renewed. Hill had bought one of Toynes products, figured out how it worked and applied for his own patent before mass-producing. Many of these products are shown and talked about in depth on the series 'Aussie Inventions that Changed the World', worth checking out if you're interested.

[@adrianmclean9195]

I appreciate the information on the clothes line - giving credit where credit is due ! Zinc cream ( zinc stick ) is still available commonly today: eg pharmacies - surfers commonly use it

[@lauramartin7675]

@@adrianmclean9195 that's true, I just remember seeing more of it and more variations in the 90's. Or I was more observant back then

[@helmuthschultes9243]

Power board is those multi socket power distribution boxes on a plug in cord that now have displaced double adapters for most purposes, with 4, 6, 8 sockets, cutoff circuit breaker and transient absorbers, now lately even with inbuilt USB power sockets, and TV antenna transient protection and band filters in some.

[@blueycarlton]

Another Aussie invention is Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) mandated navigational aid for all airlines and intrumentment flown aircraft world wide since the early 1950's.

[@timp1390]

I think the microwave landing system (MLS) is also but I may be wrong

[@eclecticapoetica]

CSIRO ‘Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’ Established by the Australian government in various forms from 1916-1926, responsible for lots of basic research and inventions, unfortunately suffered many cuts to it’s funding, threatening many long term research projects. Hoping our new government restores support to our primary research institute

[@Mirrorgirl492]

Let's hope the new government returns funding to this incredible organization.

[@melissabarrett9750]

Multifocal spectacle lenses are a modern tilt on bifocals (the ones with the line that separate the magnification part of the lens to enlarge text for reading). They don't have the line, just varying thicknesses and a smoother optical transition between the dual lens types. You were thinking of photoreactive lenses that are clear indoors and go darker to become sunglasses when outdoors.

[@teresapatterson1253]

No they are talking about the bi focal CONTACT LENSES

[@melissabarrett9750]

@@teresapatterson1253 I wasn't aware that was even possible. I will have to ask an opthamologist. I probably need them.

[@r.fairlie7186]

@@melissabarrett9750 I hadn’t heard of bifocal contact lenses either, only the multifocal ones that I’ve used. I was curious so I googled them. The result was for an optical company that explains the difference between the two types of contacts. It was only a few paragraphs so you can save yourself a visit to an opthalmologist. We’ve both learnt something new today!

[@dennis12dec]

The Polymer Banknotes is definitely an Australian invention introduced in 1988 after 20 years of research and development by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation (CSIRO) following the large scale counterfeiting of Australian Dollar banknotes in 1967. Today Central Banks in 50 countries around the world and growing have adopted the polymer banknotes due to its durability, longer lifespan and with intricate security features making it much harder for counterfeiters to replicate than paper banknotes.

[@arconeagain]

Another classic Aussie invention is the periscope rifle. On military stuff, the first underwater torpedo.

[@kerra3699]

Baby car seat :- Babies were in bassinets on the seat, then held by mum or dad on the back seat. NSW was the first in Oz to make seatbelts mandatory in 1971. Car seats invented not long after. A safe and sound baby seat saved my daughter in 1981, she was uninjured in a car crash, I was not so lucky.

[@toddavis8151]

The dual flush toilet is huge in Australia because they save water. Australia is often in drought so water saving devices are important

[@floppyrabbit6687]

Before baby capsules, if the child was old enough to sit upright they just sat in the back. Unrestrained of course as there were no seatbelts in many cases. Young babies were in their mothers arms, usually in the front seat. When I was a few months old, in my mothers arms in the front passenger seat, my older brother was bouncing about in the back seat of the car when he accidentally pulled on the exposed door handle (not reseced like they are now). The door flew open (no child safety locks then either) and he tumbled out onto the road. As my father quickly brought the car to a halt my mother flew out of the car to run back to my brother laying unconscious on the road and in the process dropping me onto said road. Fortunately I was fine and my brother had a night in hospital with concussion. It just shows that child car safety has come a long, long way.

[@thelibraryismyhappyplace1618]

Guessing he's the favourite child😉

[@johnwhear9600]

The rescue line would be attached to a belt worn by a lfe saver so they could be reeled back to beach (IIRC). Babies would just sit on someone's lap in a car or if really small, lie in a bassinet in the foot well of the back seat. No seat belts back then either. Hills is a brand name, the 'hoist' is because you can raise and lower the rotary part of the clothes line. When lowered it locks into place and won't spin (good on windy days and an easier height to hang the washing), raise it up to spin freely in the wind.

[@Greg....]

I was born in the 80s, yeah, pretty much you sat in your mum or dads lap. My olds had a baby capsule, the rear seatbelt held the capsule in, the infant was only held in that by a velcro strap. For short trips up the shop or whatever as a kid with just my mum or dad id sit on their lap whilst they drove. These days things are much different. You cannot even take a newborn home from the hospital without a certificate to say the baby capsual was fitted by a proffesional.

[@Lolliegoth]

Too many times as the youngest I got a pillow in the footwell behind Dad and went to sleep.

[@Othraerir]

If you remember Dean Jones, the legendary Aussie cricketer, RIP, he used to wear zinc cream all the time, in fact I think he was one of the pioneers to start using it.

[@Dr_KAP]

Also Shane Warne RIP

[@Mirrorgirl492]

And also Andrew Simmons (R.I.P.)

[@stevewiles7132]

We are a clever mob mate. We invented being Australian.

[@alyciasmith1964]

Although it was a case of "this is a problem let's fix it" it was sometimes a case of "I'm sick of this $#*! there's got to be an easier way" (hence why Australia has also invented or improved a lot of camp equipment).

[@wyattfamily8997]

And added to the colourful language no doubt.

[@alyciasmith1964]

@@wyattfamily8997 I believe there's some Australian insect repellent that runs down a similar vein ;) (something like "buzz off")

[@peterdubois65]

Gotta love the fact that the US spent so much on stealth aircraft and some guy at the CSIRO went "yeah, nah" 🤣

[@andrewstewart01]

We also spent years and many many dollars perfecting over thr horizon radar to go along with it. We can now monitor ships and aircraft most of the way to China from the north of Australia. Part of the Northern defence strategy. We also have a bunch of really advanced underwater stations monitoring underwater like radar for subs. We honestly have the most advanced early warning radar system in the world.

[@leglessinoz]

The US military refused to believe that their stealth aircraft could be seen until the CSIRO showed them the flight paths they'd tracked using JORN.

[@Scottyo74]

Simon Baker (actor from The Mentalist) was on 'Who do you think you are?' his ancestor started the hospital where the earing device was invented. It is currently on sbs. it was quite a good esipode.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

I thoroughly enjoyed that episode of Simon Baker’s ancestor. A wonderful history of his family

[@micheledix2616]

Great that you brought this up👍👍👍

[@kathleenmayhorne3183]

The baby capsule is a 2-piece object, the baby is put in with a wide velcro band to hold itself in place, the carrier part goes in and is buckled down and comes out at the destination, so bub can stay asleep. Before it was invented, mums had to sit in the back and hold baby or put a bassinette on the seat and buckle it in. A child's car seat, is a completely different thing, babies cannot sit up until a few months older, not being strong enough in the neck to sit up for long, is not at all safe. A power board 8s around 1metre of electrical cord on a box which has 4 or more electrical plug sockets. A huge step up from the old double adapter. That flotation froth, floats a lot more precious metal out of the previously unusable ore for mining. E.g. a much higher percentage available for extraction in gold ore. Old tailings/junk heaps are being re-processed.

[@stanroach2842]

You'd probably have a few "power boards" around your house. It's the thing that plugs into a single wall socket & allows you to then plug several power cords from different appliances into, multiple appliances running off 1 wall power socket.

[@mrd4785]

I really liked this video as much as the reactions to other videos. It kind of brings new information to the format that is potentially not already out there, which builds some originality and shows a little more thought has gone into the process. Don't be afraid to do more of these videos because they are quite informative and unique.

[@jackamo3108]

Spray on skin was cultivated from the patients skin, spray on avoided grafts and reduced scarring. I was in a burns unit at the time they were awarded a Nobel Prize.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

It still disappoints me that the disposable latex glove gets omitted from these lists. there must be millions of them used every day either in medical or cooking.

[@aheat3036]

A lot of these were not Aussie inventions and what you referred to above was invented by American William Stewart Halsted!

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@aheat3036Aussie here. Yes everything I looked up said an American William Stewart Halstead in 1889. You have to type in Australia to find one mention of Ansell improving on the idea. “In 1964 the company developed disposable latex gloves”. But American was already using them - Google does my head in lol But I love so many of our Aussie inventions. There’s a page on oh, google lol. But it’s true. *60 Great Australian Inventions. Some things I had no idea, one involving paper lol, love it 😊

[@philliplynch5943]

Hi Rob. When we lived in Swanage. we took the Condor to Jersy in three hours, Normal ship took 8 , which it and eleven other were sold to the UK and sailed from Tasmania. one of them holds the world record for crossing the Atlantic. They do 80 KPH( 50MPH) Carry 165 cars and 400 people and weigh 5000 tons. Driven by 4 jet Diesels

[@Rottnwoman]

And yet you never learned to spell JERSEY - how sad.

[@philliplynch5943]

@@Rottnwoman Oops Typo LOL

[@Seagullias12]

I think you may find this interesting: Former HMAS Jervis Bay is one of the regular ferries in the UK nowadays. www.navy.gov.au/hmas-jervis-bay-ii

[@albion2304]

Splayds we’re a standard wedding present all through the 60s and 70s for your fancy dinner parties, I think they were commonly used for the entree course, prawn cocktail, fish dishes. The Hills Hoist for generations were a standard feature in everyone’s backyards. Australians were used to large yards/gardens with room for kids to play outside, because we have such a forgiving climate Aussie kids grow up outside in these backyards. The nostalgia of playing cricket and birthday parties in their shadow is half of the charm. They’re also superior to parallel clothes lines because they spin and catch the wind to dry faster.

[@melissabarrett9750]

Splayds are awesome as use instead of cake forks. I hope we are all civilised enough to eat cake with a fork instead of our fingers.

[@kathydurow6814]

Swinging around until your mother caught you too! Especially if an older sibling was willing to lift you up to hold on, then push.

[@SH-qs7ee]

You could also wind them up and down to catch the breeze better, or so they got more sun.

[@micheledix2616]

@@SH-qs7ee I still have my original metal ( wire clothesline) Hills Hoist ( large size) . Winds up and down perfectly and is in perfect condition since April 1970. Not one spot of rust considering it has been in the backyard for over 52 yrs in rain, cyclones and all SEQld weather🤣👍🇦🇺

[@cgkennedy]

I still have the original metal Hills Hoist.

[@zybch]

I'm having trouble thinking of any other country that punches so far above its weight than Australia. So much of it come from (as Rob said) necessity. A land so isolated and different to europe and the New World needed new ways to solve so many new problems.

[@debeeriz]

that little country next door to australia with 1/5th of australias population and 1 /1000th of its size does pretty well too, ln fact australia claims a lot of their inventions/ and famous people as being australians

[@micheledix2616]

@@debeeriz too right. There is are alot of smart inventive people in the Australian/New Zealand nick of the world

[@Garmoo5600]

Us Australians love New Zealand there like the brothers and Sister you always wanted

[@koalastralia]

Scotland, Mikey, Scotland.

[@sharyndoyle6362]

Hi Miky C. I remember watching something about the Scottish inventions a long time ago. They did pretty well also. Check it out.

[@allanmowz]

The thing with the electric drill is that that's what made things like Ford's car assembly lines possible. Aircraft construction also. And lots of other stuff around that same time period, being the very early 1900s.

[@TitanSummers]

I use a C-Pap machine and you can have one just under the nose, over the whole nose or over the nose and mouth. They are not to bad to where you get used to it. It changed my life as I stop breathing without it at night. I guess it depends on how bad you need it.

[@sunisbest1234]

I use one also. Didn't know I had sleep apnea until it was suggested to me. Did the o/n study. Found out I stopped breathing 28 times an hour!!! I use the full mask as the nose one is not suitable if you are a mouth breather, which I am. Took some getting used to. Few nights, at the beginning, I would wake up and find I had flung the mask to the end of the bed, in my sleep.

[@man.i.literally.failed6772]

@@sunisbest1234 I also stopped 28 times an hour, lost 28 kilios, and now i stop breathing 5 times an hour which is normal. couldn't use the CPAP and I dont snore

[@sunisbest1234]

@@man.i.literally.failed6772 That's great! Well done! . Weight, I'm sure, does have something to do with it, sometimes. Not always though. I have a friend who is under 50 y.o. skinny as, and on the cpap.

[@man.i.literally.failed6772]

70% of the time its weight related, your friend would have a skinny tall face which in some cases requires jaw reconstruction, sometimes it's large tonsils or small airway which surgery can fix

[@kaypotter2867]

Dublin Swift was built in Fremantle, Western Australia. Travelled on the Dublin Swift Cat from Holyhead to Dublin and back in 2005. No ups and downs, just the occasional surge feeling now and then. Loved it, as I'm prone to seasickness.

[@kimnovak8985]

How very dare you knock our clothes line😂 It’s more than that stilly picture of that fragile plastic thing you saw. These things were made cast iron , you pegged the washing on them and raised them high in the sky to dry your clothes. Nothing smells better than clothes dried out in the sun and a breeze. But that’s not all they did, they became the playground as kids. One kid on each arm and swing it around while hanging on like your flying - you can’t do it on those flimsy ones they make today. It was also used as makeshift shelter on a sunny day during a family barbecue- a bit of tarpolin draped over the clothes line did the trick and let’s not forget goon of fortune , you can’t plat it unless you have a rotary clothes hoist. FYI the old cast iron ones are now worth a small fortune because they aren’t made like that anymore - I’m talking thousands of dollars because they are so solid and pretty indestructible.

[@amygone2pot]

Love my Splayds, I use them all the time. Before car seats, babies sat on Mums lap in the front seat 😳. Young babies were put on the back seat in their bassinet, with no anchoring straps 😳😳. There wasn’t another option.

[@salgwiz]

Angela Y I used a foam square on the floor of the back seat and tucked the baby younger than three months in as tight as I could. Then sat in the back with the baby tucked in behind the front seat.

[@AussieFossil]

The modern multi-channel cochlear implant was independently developed and commercialized by two separate teams-one led by Graeme Clark in Australia and another by Ingeborg Hochmair and her future husband, Erwin Hochmair in Austria, with the Hochmairs' device first implanted in a person in December 1977 and Clark's in August 1978. Although traditionally thought of as Australian, boomerangs have been found also in ancient Europe, Egypt, and North America. There is evidence of the use of non-returning boomerangs by the Native Americans of California and Arizona, and inhabitants of South India for killing birds and rabbits. 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. James Harrison invented the process whereby Australian lamb could be exported to Britain in the 1850's.

[@ironside210]

Spray on skin is specifically used on burns victims. 1. Harvest patient's own healthy skin cells. 2. Culture them up ASAP. 3. mix with water (?). 4. Spray on the (prepared) burn site. Has been used on victims with 80%+ burns. Has something like doubled the survival rate of severe burns victims and increased rate of recovery.

[@kathydurow6814]

The ability to culture skin cells originated in the USA but Dr Fiona Wood figured out the spray on method & probably the whole delivery system.

[@fransmith3255]

The Surf Lifesaving Line makes sense because Australia also invented Surf Lifesaving, which wasn't listed in this list. We wouldn't have invented the most things globally, of course, but we certainly might have invented the most things per capita in the last 2 hundred years, globally...

[@davidhuett3579]

Surf Lifesaving was definitely an American invention!! I saw it many years ago on a real life TV program called 'Bay Watch'. Almost every single invention ever invented was invented in America. You ask ANY American!🙄

[@fransmith3255]

@@davidhuett3579 LOL!! I don't usually say this, but I can tell you categorically that you are actually very wrong. A simple Google search will tell you that. Check Wikipedia for a start. You say my statement is wrong because you saw it on television on American Bay Watch, lol?? Are you serious?? (Australia also have a show called "Bay Watch"). Australia has had surf lifesaving for nearly 120 years - long before television was even invented. As for your second, even more ridiculous statement...well, words fail me other than to say you're gonna get a massive shock if you ever venture out of that exceptionally narrow mental bubble you live in.

[@davidhuett3579]

@@fransmith3255 I just love being facetious Fran 🙂 Of course Lifesaving was invented in Oz ... and Americans love to believe that they have invented pretty much everything. It has to do with their false belief in 'American Exceptional-ism'

[@fransmith3255]

@@davidhuett3579 LOL!! I bit well, didn't I? I must have been tired! I looked for sarcasm and didn't see it, lol!! My bad. 🤣🤣

[@PiersDJackson]

If you're wondering about Zinc Cream, watch Australian Cricket, it's the stuff (no longer only white) that's put on the nose, cheeks, and lips.... to stop them burning. It's also popular in the snow for similar reasons.

[@Lolliegoth]

It was never just white - pink and bronze also in the 70s

[@RARDingo]

It is also the best treatment for cold sores

[@kathydurow6814]

Think it may have been used for nappy rash as well? Could be wrong, though.

[@micheledix2616]

@@kathydurow6814 quite right👍

[@iriscollins7583]

@@kathydurow6814 l can remember using Zinc and Castor Oil cream, when my sun was a baby, 63 years ago, in the UK.😊.

[@murbella7]

The Hills (notice the 's') Hoist is all about the mechanism inside the box where the handle is. It raises and lowers the column upon which the frame of the line was mounted. The line section was 'freewheeling' and could rotate without restriction. When the lines fully retracted it would 'lock' to prevent casual rotation.

[@muzzaball]

Hey Rob, pronounced 'Cee-Pap' and an acronym for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, it uses a SMALL mask which straps around the head and seals over the nose and mouth, and maintains a level of air into the lungs, above atmo, for people with Sleep Apnea. Oh, Necessity is the mother of all Invention!!

[@victishus5722]

I wonder what the average BMI is of c-pap users is

[@muzzaball]

@@victishus5722 'While there are several treatments available for obstructive sleep apnoea, Dr' s don’t truly understand how the muscles of the upper airway cause the condition.'

[@colinbroadfoot969]

Congratulations on getting solar panels, now all you need is some sunshine!😅😂

[@Kayenne54]

Solar panels still generate power under cloudy or even rainy conditions, as long as there's a sun in the sky somewhere. Solar power electrician just told me yesterday that solar panels actually work more efficiently on cold, cloudy days than they do on hot sunny days. The heat (not the direct sunlight) causes current editions of solar panels to work less efficiently; also any light will produce some activity in the panels; apparently they can convert energy from the infrared spectrum as well; hence they will still work during overcast days.

[@4kays160]

@@Kayenne54 im 2 hours inland from sydney, it snows at my house, i have converted my house to solar and batteries and dusconected from the grid entirely.. you are correct i make much more power in winter than i do in summer, cloudy days though really do dampen the power i make, i have several arrays but say one of my 300watt arrays is under clouds i make between 25w to 75w.. clouds really do drop that charge immensely, but i can store 4 days power in one day so it takes 4 stormy flooded days in a row to really bother me which is rare..

[@jayweb51]

The lifesaving reel is used by two Lifesavers, one wears a harness attached to a line; during a surf rescue the Lifesavers attached to the reel, swims out to rescue the swimmer. The second Lifesavers then reels both the lifesaver and rescue swimmer back to the beach.

[@suelynch]

A surf ski is a canoe without the sides or a surf board that you use a paddle. Oh yes, the yanks were super pissed that they were beaten at their own game. To say the yanks were upset about Australia for winning the Cup would have to be the greatest understatements of all time.

[@PiersDJackson]

The tale of the Jindalee radar array is interesting, it was originally cobbled together out of recycled and repurposed materials, the inventors were former Telecom (GPO) engineers, who were funded by the CSIRO..... their invention really pissed off the US Air Force (and CIA)... the invention coincided with the acknowledgement of the existence of the F-117 Nighthawk and B-2 Spirit, as well as being able to track the SR-71 Blackbird. Explanation - they are the Stealth Fighter, Stealth Bomber... and the infamous fastest aircraft, and Spy Plane..

[@blueycarlton]

Apparently it can pick up ships moving in Singapore harbour.

[@PiersDJackson]

@@blueycarlton apparently they could pick every time the B-2, F-117 or SR-71 took off or landed out of Hawaii or California... from Australia.

[@kathydurow6814]

Is this the "over-the-horizon" radar?

[@PiersDJackson]

@@kathydurow6814 Yes, it's the Australian one, which originally looked like it'd been Heath Robinson-ed together, the US version (at the time) was Billions of dollars 💸 ... and the Australians' actually worked with 99% accuracy, compared to theirs at 51%.... the British were better, but range was still ony just over the vertical horizon. Ie. The south of France from the Kent Coast.

[@Bicketybam68]

In all fairness and although I don't know for sure, but many inventions may be improvements on a previous item but different enough to be considered as a new invention. I'm sure there are plenty of things we Australians have originally invented but then also have been improved on by others as well. Being first to invent something and being first to patent it as well are also a different story.

[@looking8030]

You seriously need to do one on the CSIRO they are unbelievable the things they have they were the first to teleport light heaps of medicines even genetics in foods to grow in harsh terrains they just invented a carbon fibre 3d printer be a good video

[@adrianmclean9195]

I agree - one of the world's best organisations - very important to agriculture and helping farmers with problems: eg trying to find a way to eradicate mice plaques

[@Neojhun]

It's realy creating the invention making it into Reality that seems to be what Aussies do best. The ideas are kind of less important if they are based on existing concepts. But to make a real world device that has never been done before that seems to be what happens alot here out of Necessity. My favourite is Fairlight CMI the first Digital Audio Workstation. The modern Computer Audio Editing & Mixing system.

[@oscillatewildly6553]

I remember family outings in Summer at the outdoor pool when I was a kid in the 80's, while us kids would swim and play, the adults would chill out on the lawn sunbathing (using sun tanning coconut oil to roast themselves) and drinking "cask wine", wine in a box! I remember once my dad handing me the empty "goon bag" the bladder inside, which was blown up like a balloon, and I used it as an inflatable pillow in the pool, the good old days!

[@murbella7]

Race-cam was nothing like a GoPro. It was a full-sized analogue (not digital) TV camera on a radio-controlled gimbal mounted inside the racing car. It was radical because it added a mass of extra weight to a car and changed the vehicle's gravity dynamics. Modern cameras are still big but much smaller and lighter.

[@robertclothier3597]

For a bunch of Colonials down at the arse end of the world we've done alright for ourselves wouldn't you agree mate? Not forgetting our NZ cousins over ditch. Think it comes from our pioneering past of making the best of what you have

[@ianmontgomery7534]

well when you are so far from other countries it doesn't surprise me as you couldn't get replacements easily which led to people being inventive and it spread.

[@Lolliegoth]

@@ianmontgomery7534 Smarter than the average Possum love

[@citybeatdisco19]

England made a big mistake by sending so many smart people downunder couple centuries ago :P. The smarts has been passed down through the generations

[@thefirstvoidwalker1613]

We had to

[@aheat3036]

Not really!… Australian is an underachieving nation!… If you Google these “inventions” listed (some are so insignificant), you will find that many, if not most, were not Australian inventions!

[@ianyoung9539]

The Hill Hoist in more than a clothesline, it hand a handle you turned & it raised the line up in the air to catch breezes & also allow kids to still use yard without pulling down clothes. They later came out where the 3 arm folded upwards & who lot sli down the centre post *a bit like an umbrella in reverse) then could be lifted out of a sunken "sleeve" in ground & put away when moving or entertaining so yard was free of obstacle. with the hanging line going around between 4 arms, it made size smaller but also had more hanging space overall. The bound pad, of AW Birchall was called Silver City Writing Tablets. Most of the listed inventions are on Wikipedia if you want to find out more about them.

[@leandabee]

I love my splades and use them for everything. Can't remember the last time I used a fork apart from going out for tea. Splayds are the best 👌 🥰

[@tarsha8816]

My mum said that I was in the bassinet on the seat or the footwell- prior to the baby capsules.. but even then the baby capsules have changed a lot since they first came out..

[@AUmarcus]

Surf lifesaving and Speedo swimwear also started at Bondi NSW.

[@dudeybagz]

The Ute was marketed as a vehicle to take the family to church on Sunday and the pigs to market on Monday.

[@Flirkann]

The catamaran was great when it was eventually added as a trial ferry service to Tasmania, but suffered from the lack of cabins (it was quick enough to do multiple day sailings) so those who still got seasick couldn't hide away, and the cats were eventually replaced by a pair of larger traditional styled vehicle ferries doing a day and night sailing each

[@dylanshadowstar9779]

Maybe other places have a different name for it. The power board is basically the thing you plug into the wall that has four plugs. So you can turn one electric socket into four.

[@adrianmclean9195]

Kambrook's had individual switches for each socket and built in overload?

[@jayweb51]

Multimodal lenses are for people who need different glass for reading and for general wear. By looking at different areas of the lenses, you get the best of both worlds; general wear is in the upper(top) lenses area, while reading is in the lower(bottom) lenses area.

[@skullandcrossbones65]

G'day. The baby capsule is not a seat. It is more like a basket that the baby gets put in then the basket goes into a special holder with the infant facing backwards. in a collision the foot end of the basket will drop and the impact force holds the baby in the capsule as well as velcro straps.

[@jayweb51]

It's called a Hills Hoist because it was manufactured by Hills Industries.

[@larissahorne9991]

The Sleep Apnea mask definitely takes getting used to and not just for the patient. I once had to share a double bed with my Mum and her machine. She sounded like Darth Vader, it's a wonder I didn't have nightmares about Star Wars. When a Guy I'm friends with got together with his wife, she didn't just have to get used sleeping with him but his machine as well. He developed Sleep Apnea in his 20's. I didn't really know what a Stump Jump Plough looked like but Mum used to tell a story about a Boy she went to High School with in the 40's. He had such bad Acne, that his Classmates used to joke that he'd need a Stump Jump Razor. Of course Mum would explain about that Plough every time she told that story. He went on to be a successful local businessman with a Pharmacy. I wonder if he got the idea looking for something for his skin. Mum was in there one day, he recognised her and they had a nice conversation. Of course Mum told us that story about her High School days again.

[@kathydurow6814]

Sleep apnoea machines have come a long way. I remember sharing a room in the early 2000s with someone and it was quite loud. Fast forward 10 - 15 years when I needed one myself and you can hardly hear it. They have become even smaller since then.

[@peterhoz]

Hills Hoist. Hills is the company, still exists today. The "hoist" is cos, once you've hung the washing, you can hoist it up via the winding mechanism at waist height (see the pic), this giving it more height and ensuring that sheets etc don't drag on the ground.

[@rowanbrecknell4021]

5:47 Mum would just hold the baby in her arms or be held by one of the kids in the back seat. Our old DB6 Dodge Pheonix had no seatbelts. When we got a car with seatbelts it was a novelty.

[@jayweb51]

The Surf Ski is not a surfboard, as you would know; these are used now a days for surf rescue by Lifesavers, you either sit or lay on it. In surf competitions, they are used in two ways; laying down and paddling with your arms, and sitting using double paddles for surf racing.

[@vickispong1371]

Thanks Rob, I new about most but not all. Very interesting.

[@bradp8355]

The rotary clothesline was actually invented by Gilbert Toyne and the hills hoist was just a brand name that followed

[@kathydurow6814]

Evidently Hills used wire reclaimed from military uses after WW2 for quite some time (presumably very cheaply).

[@IceWolfLoki]

Out of the 60 yeah it has to be the refrigerator as it was the most game changing in that you no longer needed to source ice to keep things cold.

[@WMH-MUSIC]

Surf ski - seated position using a double ended paddle (surfboard with indent for bum and harness for feet) Wes WMH

[@cbjones2212]

Prior to car seats and capsules, bassinet baskets were literally just plonked on the back seat of the car. If your car was flash and had seatbelts in the back, someone might have thought about strapping the bassinet in before driving off. No bassinet? No worries. Mum would usually just cradle the bub in her arms in the front seat - maybe seat-belting both her and the bub in the one seat belt. I shit you not.

[@roslynjonsson2383]

It's actually a "Catamaran", no "g" on the end m8. Enjoyed your reaction and comments. For a country with a small population, I think Australia has given it's fair share to the development and progression of society. I'm 57, so went to school in the 70s and 80s - encouraging us as young kids to use as much imagination and creativity during story writing, art classes, producing projects on other countries etc as possible, I guess has made us quite resilient and resourceful. If we're faced with problems, our brains go into "how do I fix this" mode. I'm also disabled with MS, so growing up with those traits, has made dealing with this disease so much easier - I've had to find other ways to do things, to achieve the same or desired result, and have "invented" a couple of tools to help myself in daily living

[@NeilBlanco]

We like to invent things that become the world standard like the blackbox recorder, emergency slide, bionic ear etc. which is pretty amazing really...

[@neilcampbell60]

40000 years to invent a returning stick

[@scomti7057]

Thank you for sharing this interesting video! I love the Hills Hoist... to dry our clothes.

[@Lolliegoth]

,..great fun to swing on- until they bend and then you get the strap...

[@sunisbest1234]

@@Lolliegoth or u dislocated your shoulders, as I did when I was 2 or 3. ( the dad's would lift us up there and swing us around as a bit of fun.)

[@rowanbrecknell4021]

16:08 The orbital engine is a piston that dives direct on a gear without a conrod. In his design the engine is 2 stroke and can just add as many pistons and cylinders as there is available gears to land on. Not much power but the torque is like 2 x 429 cubic inch Ford motors. Was designed for use as a stationary engine for generators, water pumps and air compressors.

[@claire221287]

The baby capsule and baby car seat are different things in Australia the capsule is the one that only rear faces and you can remove with baby in it and carry it around or attach to a pram. The car seat is the one that either rear and forward face or just forward face and you can't remove with baby in.

[@helmuthschultes9243]

Do you not remember all the images of Aussies and cricketers with white stuff smeared over the nose, ear lobes and lips mainly, and even various coloured versions. It was almostva standard image of Aussie beach and surfer culture to run around with that gunk smeared on. It is fully capable of remaining on as absolute sun protection with swimming and strong perspiration, also fouling on clothes towels and anything rubbing on the smeared areas.

[@JustSomeAussieGamer]

That Catamaran did actually get used for Devonport - Melbourne - Devonport. It failed miserably because it was useless with the big waves & wave direction randomness, got the nickname the "VomitComet"

[@markway8208]

Rob, those are but just a few of the inventions that Aussies over the years have invented, some others are Spray-on Skin, Electronic Pacemaker, Medical Application of Penicillin, Permaculture, Permanent Crease Clothing, Mechanical Ice Maker, Stainless Steel Braces to Straighten Teeth and thousands more all as important. Loved the video

[@rowanbrecknell4021]

17:12 My Father used to go on about the cool safe. Everyday they would go and buy an ice block, bring it home. Just like keeping an esky. This was in the 1940's. Refrigeration is new to the public. Toilet waste was picked up by the night cartman until the early 1960's.

[@letsseeif]

Refrigeration was invented specifically to enable Australian beef sheep and other livestock carcasses shipped to Britain ( Aussie was an essential part of the British Empire).

[@christophernicola9293]

As someone who is geographically challenged, Google maps has changed my life.. as I pull a cask of wine out of my refrigerator before I mow the lawn..lol

[@michellemoebus5736]

John Ridley who is a distant relative of mine (My mums maiden name is Ridley) was actually born in England but came to South Australia in 1839. I believe he came up with the idea when walking through his crop with his wife her hair comb fell, and when they picked it up the comb stripped the grain from the stalks. He eventually went back to England where he died. If you go to Adelaide you will see his name mentioned quiet a bit like Ridley gates at the Adelaide showgrounds and a suburb Ridleyton.

[@zwieseler]

The surf ski is a paddle board with handles. Life savers kneel on them to paddle out to the Pins struggling in the surf. The life saving reel had a sash belt on it which a life saver put round themselves to swim the line out to the Drowning Pins. They would then grab the Pin and get hauled back to the beach together. Before baby capsules, people would put a bassinet with the baby lying in it, on the back seat . The Orbital engine was a dud. The entry there about it is incorrect. Orbital Engine Co. developed a highly efficient fuel injection system for it but it was later applied to existing 2 stroke engines which ran cleaner as a result.

[@melissabarrett9750]

Please show some respect. They're not pins, they're Brits.

[@jennifergawne3002]

Splayds are great, esp in party situations where one doesn't have enough hands

[@A_nony_mous]

Before the baby capsule babies were in bassinettes wedged between the front seat and the back seat. Nothing held the baby in the bassinette in the event of a crash, indeed the bassinette was not attached to the car in any way, unless the parents made a contraption of their own. Note the baby capsule (4 belts, attaches rear facing to a mounting point) is for infants that cannot yet sit up on their own i.e. under 12 months old, different from a child car seat (4 belts, attaches front facing to a mounting point) which is for a toddler and different from a booster seat (no belts, positioned under the lap section of an ordinary seatbelt) which is for an older child. Coolgardie safe: refrigerator before electricity. Power board: 3 or more electrical outlets attached to a single power plug via an electric cord. Allows multiple appliances to be plugged in to a single power outlet on a wall, safer than multiple double adaptors.

[@rossmcconchie1316]

Kangaroo cranes were used to build the World Trade Centres. This was their first use outside Australia. The cranes are able to "build themselves" to get higher and higher, and can then reverse the process when the building is complete. Therefore not requiring a 2nd crane to build/take down the first.

[@happieyak]

They had a catamaran from the main land to Tassie. Nick named the Spew Cat. Bass Strait is one of the roughest seas in the world and it wasn't suited.

[@c8Lorraine1]

I would recommend you check out a KZbin video of the winged K. After Australia won the America’s Cup the boat was brought ashore and then gently to reveal its keel. Good visual experience and emotional connection

[@barney992]

An English born Australian ,Lawrence Hargrave used box kite designed flying to leave the ground in 1890's . The wrights used his design in their bi plane type aircraft to fly further .

[@PiersDJackson]

The Hills Hoist... it's in the name... Hills invention, and it mechanically hoisted the line up to dry, whilst down to allow the vertically challenged to add or remove washing, also some had a locking ring between the shaft and the rotating gantry, which prevented the rotation at the lowest position.... so "Goon of Fortune" needs to be a little higher to prevent this.

[@charliew4823]

Yes Piers Rob entirely missed the handle for the winding mechanism.

[@victishus5722]

@@charliew4823 not to mention the Removable Hills Hoist... 3rd best invention ever!

[@shenysys]

The refrigerator system was used to keep food fresh while in transport from Australia to England.

[@joandsarah77]

I believe before the capsule babies would be placed into a flat bassinet that sat along the back seat that was then strapped in with a harness. I have this vague recollection of something like that and it taking up far too much room. Car seats for children who could sit up had been out for some years although the early ones were themselves probably worse than nothing. The baby capsule was dedicated to birth-6 months.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

Yes I remember my daughter in an early car seat for children who could sit up. I took a pic when she was little. Looking at it recently it really doesn’t look safe at all, no straps on it, you had to hook it over the seat, not having a station wagon, she’s legally sat in the front seat. lol. Dam dangerous when you think about it now.

[@joandsarah77]

@@bernadettelanders7306 That's right, they hooked over those early car seats. Honestly kids were probably safer sitting down on the floor if there was room.

[@bernadettelanders7306]

@@joandsarah77 I know, I’m shocked looking at old photo how unsafe it was. You are right, they would have safer on the floor in the back, somehow bolstered up.

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

I know all about Logic Gates because I do IT. A Logic Gate is basically a filter that gets an input (1/0), or multiple inputs, and then decides whether the output is 1 or 0. Different Gates have different types of determining the output based on the input/s, making them useful for different scenarios.