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Electric Drill
Australian electrical engineer Arthur James Arnot created the world’s first electric drill with coworker - William Brain. Originally created for drilling rock and coal. -
Electronic Pacemaker
Mark Lidwill and physicist Edgar Booth developed the first artificial pacemaker. -
Medical Penecilin
Scientist Howard Florey purified penicillin from a special strain of mould. The team demonstrated penicillin’s ability to fight bacterial infection in mice and, later, humans. -
The Blackbox
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Permanent-crease clothing
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Plastic lenses
Using plastic lenses for spectacles had many benefits including accessibility, safety and durability -
Inflatable escape slide and raft
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Bionic Ear!
Professor Graeme Clark invented the first bionic ear Melbourne University called the cochlear implant. Advancing hearing loss technology. -
Permaculture
Bill Mollison invented a natural approach to designing self-sufficient human and agricultural systems with permaculture. -
Ultrasound scanner
Harnessing and interpreting ultrasound echoes bouncing off soft tissue in the body and converting them to TV images. -
Triton Workcentre
George Lewin created a wonderful invention for the convenient use for power tools -
Racecam
Live television using a little camera so the audience can see the race from the driver's perspective -
Winged keel
Ben Lexcen, marine architect, created a wing on the base of a sailboat -
Polymer Bank notes
Made from paper, cloth fibres or a combination of both. Our bank notes are made from a special polymer which, along with a series of in-built security devices, makes them almost impossible to counterfeit. They also last about 10 times longer than traditional bank notes. -
Wi-Fi
John O’ Sullivan and the CSIRO developed Wireless connection -
Frazier lens
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'Spray-on-skin'
Perth-based plastic surgeon Professor Fiona Wood 'spray-on skin'. The innovation involves taking a small patch of the victim’s healthy skin and using it to grow new skin cells in a laboratory. -
Google Maps
Lars and Jens Rasmussen developed the platform for Google Maps in Sydney -
Cancer vaccines
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Tank-bred tuna system
Hagen Stehr may have saved the southern blue fin tuna from extinction fooling the fish into breeding more