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BIG Aussie Stuff
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Wool Bales - Hamilton, VIC
Cassowary - Mission Beach, QLD
Camera - Meckering, WA
Mobile Phone - Hurstville, NSW
Scotsman - Adelaide, SA
More Big Aussie things
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Oz World Records
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• highest waterspout
• longest railroad straight
• largest BBQ
• most successful bionic ear
• fastest car ferry
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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 -- Find out more on Water Powered Cars here.
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
- George Nicholas and Henry Woolf Smith produced a high-grade aspirin product in Melbourne called Aspro in 1915. It later took over the international market.
- Bruce Macdonald at the Australian Institute of Marine Science developed the world's first underwater computer in 1993
- The world's first Plastic Banknotes were invented in Australia in 1988. They last longer and are harder to counterfeit than paper money.
- The world's first pregnancy using In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) technology was reported from Monash Medical Centre in 1973. The first frozen embryo baby was born in Melbourne in 1984.
- In 1906, the story about the Kelly Gang was the world's first feature length film.
- In Victoria, the first prototype of a solar water heating system was developed by the CSIRO in 1953
- Racecam - the lightweight, fixed camera first used in car racing - was developed by Geoff Healey in 179 and has changed sports broadcasting worldwide.
- The world's first plastic spectacle lenses, 60% lighter than glass lenses, were designed in 1960 by Scientific Optical Laboratories.
- 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 first Black Box Flight Recorder recorded the pilot's voice and some instrument readings was invented in 1958 by Dr David Warren from Melbourne. It is now used in aircraft worldwide.
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