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Australian electrical engineer Arthur James Arnot created the world’s first electric drill with coworker - William Brain. Originally created for drilling rock and coal.
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Mark Lidwill and physicist Edgar Booth developed the first artificial pacemaker.
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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.
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Invented by David Warren
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Using plastic lenses for spectacles had many benefits including accessibility, safety and durability
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Professor Graeme Clark invented the first bionic ear Melbourne University called the cochlear implant. Advancing hearing loss technology.
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Bill Mollison invented a natural approach to designing self-sufficient human and agricultural systems with permaculture.
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Harnessing and interpreting ultrasound echoes bouncing off soft tissue in the body and converting them to TV images.
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George Lewin created a wonderful invention for the convenient use for power tools
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Live television using a little camera so the audience can see the race from the driver's perspective
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Ben Lexcen, marine architect, created a wing on the base of a sailboat
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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.
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John O’ Sullivan and the CSIRO developed Wireless connection
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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.
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Lars and Jens Rasmussen developed the platform for Google Maps in Sydney
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Hagen Stehr may have saved the southern blue fin tuna from extinction fooling the fish into breeding more