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Electric Drill
The modern electric drill was created by two Australians, originally made to drill rock instead. -
Medical Penicillin
It was discovered that penicillin could be used to cure disease in many animals, including humans. This was used to heal soldiers in World War II. -
Black Box Flight Recorder
Invention that records the events of a plane flight, and the moment the plane is crashed. This helps prevent future accidents on planes. -
Permanent-crease clothing
This was created by CSIRO. This technology allowed for fashion innovations such as permanently pleated skirts. -
Electronic Pacemaker
A machine that keeps a patient's heart beating by sending electrical pulses to keep it beating. -
Plastic Spectacle Lenses
They were used as they were safer, lighter, more durable and cheaper than glass lenses. -
Inflatable escape slide and raft
This innovation was created by Jack Grant and make the slides used as a flotation device if the aircraft lands on water. -
Cochlear implant (bionic car)
Cochlear implants were invented to electronically stimulate the auditory nerve by professor Graeme Clark. -
Permaculture
This innovation was created to use natural approach to designing self sufficient human settlements and agricultural systems. -
Ultrasound Scanner
It is used to see an unborn foetus without exposing it to harmful gamma radiation through an x-ray. -
Triton Workcentre
a 27-year-old television journalist named George Lewin appeared on ABC TV’s The Inventors program with his new invention, the Triton Workforce. -
Racecam
Channel 7 introduced live television broadcasting from racing cars, allowing viewers to watch the race from the driver’s perspective -
Polymer bank notes
This innovation was created to combine effort by Reserve bank of Australia and CSIRO. -
Winged Keel
This is placed on the back of the sailboat to increase the performance. -
WI-Fi technology
It was created by John O’ Sullivan. The core parts of the technology came out of research in the mid-1970s in the field of radio astronomy. -
Frazier Lens
This camera lens allows the camera to focus on the subject and background simultaneously. -
Spray-on skin
This innovation involves a small patch of healthy skin and using the skin to grow skin cells in laboratory. -
Google Maps
Google Maps was created in Sydney, which was bought by Google to create the Google Maps we know today. -
Gardasil and Cervarix cancer vaccines
This is the world's first anti-cancer vaccine. It protects women against four types of a cancer. -
Tank-bred tuna system
This is a fish tank that tricks the salmons into thinking it was in a natural habitat, while saving it from extinction.