# Australian inventions **URL:** \ **Category:** Spy Lounge\ **Tags:** australia\ **Created:** [February 17, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032 "2019-02-17T01:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 1:54am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/1 "2019-02-17T01:54:19Z")
Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise. This country seems to lack creativity, ingenuity and inventiveness. Have Australians ever invented anything? ---
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/2 "2019-02-17T02:00:39Z")
We seem to so lack creativity we name our TV awards after a Scotsman who probably never even set foot in this country. ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/3 "2019-02-17T02:17:25Z")
> [@mars\_argo](#): > > Have Australians ever invented anything? Plenty. Here’s 20 to start: > **[20 Australian inventions that changed the world - Australian Geographic](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2010/06/australian-inventions-that-changed-the-world/)** > > Australians can be an ingenious bunch. Here are some of the best inventions to have come out of the nation. 20 Australian inventions that changed the world 1. Black box flight recorder 2. Spray-on skin 3. Electronic pacemaker 4. Google Maps 5. Medical application of penicillin 6. Polymer bank notes 7. Cochlear implant (bionic ear) 8. Electric drill 9. Winged keel 10. Permaculture 11. Wi-Fi technology 12. Ultrasound scanner 13. Plastic spectacle lenses 14. Inflatable escape slide and raft 15. Permanent-crease clothing 16. Gardasil and Cervarix cancer vaccines 17. Frazier lens 18. Triton Workcentre 19. Racecam 20. Tank-bred tuna system ---
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/4 "2019-02-17T02:20:32Z")
Seems pretty lazy. Where do you want to start? #1? Black box recorder? One of the earliest and proven attempts was made by François Hussenot and Paul Beaudouin in 1939 in France. ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/5 "2019-02-17T02:29:41Z")
Are you just trolling? ---
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/6 "2019-02-17T02:40:42Z")
I think you’ll find none of that 20 were invented by Australians… Sometimes that list is even blatant about it… Take this for example: ’ 4. Google Maps Danish brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen’ ---
**Author:** ![JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jbar/32/151177_2.png) [@JBar](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JBar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/7 "2019-02-17T02:46:29Z")
You do realise Australia is a multicultural country and many of the people that live here were born overseas? They were born in Denmark but libe and work in Australia whete they invented it. Doesn’t make them less Australian. ---
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/8 "2019-02-17T02:50:45Z")
Ummm… Doesn’t make them any less Danish either… When have AUSTRALIANS ever invented anything? Australia seems a country glad to claim credit when it comes to ‘foreigners’ achieving anything… But local born, locally educated people seem to lack that ‘get up and go’ that immigrants do. ‘Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas…’ ---
**Author:** ![Qwerty](https://forums.mediaspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Qwerty](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/Qwerty)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/9 "2019-02-17T02:53:16Z")
> [@mars\_argo](#): > > When have AUSTRALIANS ever invented anything? The bionic ear was invented by AUSTRALIAN Dr Graeme Clark, certainly a significant invention. You’ll probably post a troll reply back saying that he’s not Australian because his great-grandparents were born overseas or something like that… ---
**Author:** ![JasonF](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/jasonf/32/349220_2.png) [@JasonF](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/JasonF)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/10 "2019-02-17T02:54:40Z")
the csiro did invent wi fi ---
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/11 "2019-02-17T02:55:06Z")
The first cochlear implant was invented and developed by Dr. William F. House. ---
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/12 "2019-02-17T02:56:42Z")
In 1971, ALOHAnet connected the Hawaiian Islands with a UHF wireless packet network. ALOHAnet and the ALOHA protocol were early forerunners to Ethernet, and later the IEEE 802.11 protocols, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/mars_argo/32/86145_2.png) [@mars\_argo](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/mars_argo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/13 "2019-02-17T03:05:21Z")
Oh dear… > **[Winged keel not Lexcen's design, Dutch architect claims](https://www.smh.com.au/national/winged-keel-not-lexcens-design-dutch-architect-claims-20091013-gvnr.html)** > > A boat designer has blown the whistle on a ''lie'' that allowed Australia to seize glory in the 1983 America's Cup. ---
**Author:** ![bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bacco007/32/99038_2.png) [@bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/bacco007)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/14 "2019-02-17T04:14:32Z")
This is simply trolling - thread closed ---
**Author:** ![bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/bacco007/32/99038_2.png) [@bacco007](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/bacco007)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/australian-inventions/8032/15 "2019-02-17T04:14:37Z")