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Eighty-eight things we couldn't do without
Australians invented and made essential contributions to the 3D prototyping, agricultural machinery, aircraft landing systems, aircraft radar distance measuring equipment, anti submarine torpedo missile systems, artificial rain, atomic absorption spectroscopy, automatic beamed radar, cochlear implants, black box flight recorders, box kites, bromocyanide process for extracting gold, car radio, chaff cutter, combine harvesters, contour farming, differential gears, drill cultivator, exploding bullets, Favco cranes, frozen embryo implantation, furniture castors, green bean slicers, guided anti-aircraft weapons, harvesters, heart pacemaker, the Hills hoist, in vitro fertilisation, inflatable escape slides, infra aircraft weapons, infra red chicken brooders, interactive computer systems, laser lighthouse, lid for jugs, Lister's zinc/lead process, mechanised brick production, Michell thrust bearing (for screw propeller), microsurgery, Mills cross radio-telescope, modern milking machine, night football, optically variable plastic bank notes, orbital engine, pacemaker, penicillin/antibiotics, periscope rifle, permanent press fabric, photocopier (liquid xerographics), police car radios, powered flight, processes for extracting precious metals, rare earth supermagnet motors, ready mix concrete, refrigeration, rotary hoes, rubber gloves, self mix concrete, self twist yarn spinning, shearing machines, sheet metal, snail killer, snake bite antivenene, sound proof windows, sound twist yarn spinning, speed packer garbage collector, the splade, sports ergometer, spun concrete pipe, stripper harvester, stump jump ploughs, stump proof windows, sugar cane harvester, sunshine harvester, super efficient solar cell, super lightweight composite machine parts, super lightweight fabrics, surf reels, teratogenic effects of thalidomide & rubella, torpedo, totalisator betting system (TAB), tubular photocopier (liquid xerographics), tubular sheet metal, utility truck, water meter (direct measurement), wave jump plough, wave piercing catamaran, wine casks, x-ray crystallography.


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