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BIG Aussie Stuff
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Guitar - Narrandera, NSW
Kangaroo - Border Village, SA
Redback Spider - Eight Mile Plains, QLD
Fish - Caboolture, QLD
Merino - Blackall, QLD
More Big Aussie things
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Oz World Records
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• longest damper bread
• longest car ownership by one owner
• largest cocktail
• longest road train
• longest freight container
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Famous Australian Ideas and Innovations
You're going to be very surprised at some of the great inventions Australians have been responsible for...
Heck, we're even NOW responsible for turning dishwater and beer into electricity, AND running cars on nothing but water!
This page presents a variety of those for your perusal - please REFRESH to see a different selection of ten Aussie innovations.
To find out more, can I suggest you visit
The Power House Museum and Questacon
- Penicillin was trialled successfully on humans by Howard Florey, and went into production in 1941 to help victims of World War II.
- In 1972 Dynamic Lifter - an organic fertiliser made from chook manure - was invented.
- Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean in 1928.
- Reverend John Flynn founded the world's first Aerial Medical Service, the Flying Doctor Service, in 1928
- The first ever radio lesson was broadcast from the Royal Flying Doctor Base in Alice Springs in 1950 on the School of the Air.
- The Pop Top Can idea of press-buttons on cans (where the button is hinged to the can) so it does not cause a litter problem, was developed by Sir Ian McLennan of BHP in 1973
- John McGarvie Smith donated his secret discovery of an anthrax vaccine to the NSW Government in 1918.
- The first ultrasound scanner was built in 1961 at the ultrasonics institute in the Commonwealth Department of Health by George Kossoff and David Robinson.
- The world's first Plastic Banknotes were invented in Australia in 1988. They last longer and are harder to counterfeit than paper money.
- A lightweight, fully-enclosed hybrid toilet system which needs no water and requires minimal maintenance was released in 1998.
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