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  1. 8th August 2011, 08:27 PM #1
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    Australian Inventors

    My 11 years old son Declan needs to do a homework piece on an Aust invention,who designed it and what was it.Has anyone got one that is not well known or different/interesting?.Thanks Pat
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    Black box recorder for aircraft.

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    coolgardie safe is a bit of a classic but I would do an invention from David Unaipon, link here for an overview. David Unaipon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The guy gets no credit!
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    why does it not suprise me that the first fridge had something to do with beer.....
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    Lots of great medical research/inventions by Australians
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    polymer money was invented by the CSIRO and is used in dozens of countries internationally.

    Edward Both invented a few things. Kia Silverbrook is another - pretty long list of achievements there

    There is a bundle of inventors listed here
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...lian_inventors
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