Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688–1980: 3 (Australian Experience)

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Blood test to prevent stillbirth – A Melbourne medical research institution, Mercy Health, identified a method of analysing RNA fragments in a mother's blood that indicates oxygen and nutrient deprivation in the foetus. [139] Woollam, C. H. (1976). "The development of apparatus for intermittent negative pressure respiration. (2) 1919-1976, with special reference to the development and uses of cuirass respirators". Anaesthesia. 31 (5): 666–685. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11849.x. PMID 779520. Stobie pole – A power line pole made of two steel joists held apart by a slab of concrete. It was invented by Adelaide Electric Supply Company engineer James Cyril Stobie. [39] This is irrespective of the technical field and the gender of the patent examiner, and despite evidence that female inventor patents are just as good as male inventor patents. Digital sampler – The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) was the first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie in Sydney, Australia. [87]

Sirosmelt lance and the ISASMELT process – The Sirosmelt lance was invented Dr Bill Denholm and Dr John Floyd at the CSIRO and by Mount Isa Mines (a subsidiary of MIM Holdings. The lance was developed to be an energy-efficient smelting process and improve the tin-smelting processes with the final process being called the ISASMELT process. [79] [80] https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/fifteen-aussie-inventions-that-changed-the-world/news-story/f46eecd1dc3b9714dd00a949ffa5d464 Danish brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen developed the platform for Google Maps in Sydney in the early 2000s. Along with Australians Neil Gordon and Stephen Ma, they founded a small start-up company called Where 2 Technologies in 2003. The following year it was bought by internet giant Google, which also hired the four men, and the technology was turned into what we now know as Google Maps. Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856–1937)". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online – Potter, Charles Vincent (1859–1908). Australian National University.Pneumatic broadacre air seeder – lightweight air seeder uses a spinning distributor, blew the seeds through a pipe into the plating tynes. [59] Plastic rod bone repair – The technique of using plastic rods in place of metal pins and screws was developed by Dr Michael Ryan and Dr Stephen Ruff at Sydney's North Shore Hospital. Repairing bones with plastic rods stops interference with MRI and CAT scans. Several types of plastic screws are now used in orthopaedic surgery. Some are absorbed into the body, unlike metal screws, which often have to be surgically removed. The first wine cask was developed and patented by a winemaker, Thomas Angrove, in 1965 in South Australia. Amongst the popular Australian inventions, it was created when Angrove placed one-gallon polyethylene bladders inside corrugated boxes and put them on sale. Slightly different from the present-day wine cask, the box could be cut open and then resealed with a special peg. It was the earliest version which was later modified into the tap-installed wine casks we are familiar with. Frazier Lens Courtesy: On The Job- Careers Market EXELGRAM – The world's most sophisticated optical anti- counterfeiting technology was developed by the CSIRO. [124]

Humespun pipe-making process – The Humespun process was developed by Walter Hume of Humes Ltd for making concrete pipes of high strength and low permeability. The process used centrifugal force to evenly distribute concrete onto wire reinforcing, revolutionising pipe manufacture. [24] Dethridge wheel in 1936 Baby Safety Capsule – In 1984, for the first time babies had a bassinette with an air bubble in the base and a harness that distributed forces across the bassinette protecting the baby. New South Wales public hospitals now refuse to allow parents to take a baby home by car without one. [101]Foot rot vaccine – CSIRO produced the first vaccine against foot rot using genetic engineering techniques.

Wool technology, 1957, Improvements in wool production and processing by CSIRO". Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Photolithography – developed by John Walter Osborne at the Victorian government's Crown Lands Office. During a land boom the Office had trouble producing the many maps and documents required to keep land records updated. Instead of having to copy surveyor's originals, or having to store stone originals, master copies saved were glass slides of around 6 inches (150mm) square. [8] Many of Australia's inventions were realised by individuals who get little credit or who are often overlooked for more famous Americans or Europeans. [1] Clancy, RL (2012). "Towards a vaccine for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease". Intern Med J. 42 (6): 607–13. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02752.x. PMID 22372964. S2CID 10937124. W. Hudson Shaw; O. Ruhen (1977). Lawrence Hargrave: Explorer, Inventor and Aviation Experimenter. Cassell Australia. OCLC 4466434.Hagen Stehr, a German-born South Australian, may have spared the southern bluefin tuna from extinction in 2008. The clean-seas technique deceives tuna in a tank into believing they are swimming out of the Australian Bight and towards their breeding grounds. Surf Ski Anderson, Dave (5 May 1988). "SPORTS OF THE TIMES; Yachting's Crocodile Dundee", Sports, New York Times. Retrieved on 13 March 2008 Dr Victor Chang's artificial heart valve". National Archives of Australia. Accessed 17 August 2009.

The book argues that these images, rather than describing an especially Australian reality, grow out of assumptions about nature, race, class, democracy, sex and empire, and are 'invented' to serve the interests of particular groups. Flame Ionisation Detector, 1957, Scientific instrument for chemical analysis". Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Coulthard-Clark, Christopher D., Australian Dictionary of Biography, online edition, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080298b.htm, retrieved on 26 August 2008 Nicholson, Brendan (7 January 2006). "Australia's Key Role in Missile Shield". The Age Newspaper, Melbourne.Country and cultural differences may also be at play, particularly since more than 90% of patent applications received by IP Australia come from non-Australian inventors (and overwhelmingly from the United States). Jean Gittins, 'Osborne, John Walter (1828–1902)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/osborne-john-walter-4343/text7051, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 26 June 2016. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2010/06/australian-inventions-that-changed-the-world/ JD Walker (1984). Lawrence Hargrave: Australia's Pioneer Aeronautical Scientist. Australian Government Publishing Service. ISBN 0644033010.