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] Equine Henda Virus Vaccine Launched in Australia". The Horse. 1 November 2012 . Retrieved 7 November 2012. An Australian scientist, Howard Florey extracted purified penicillin from a strain of mold and used it to conduct the first clinical trials of penicillin. The purification and extraction of penicillin allowed its production in large amounts to produce medicine for the treatment of various bacterial diseases. The created antibiotic has been useful in combating infections in patients of bacterial diseases all around the world. Spray-on Skin Electronic Pacemaker – Developed by Edgar H Booth and Mark C Liddell, the heart pacemaker had a portable apparatus which 'plugged into a lighting point. One pole was applied to a skin pad soaked in strong salt solution' while the other pole 'consisted of a needle insulated except at its point, and was plunged into the appropriate cardiac chamber'. 'The pacemaker rate was not good from about 80 to 120 pulses per minute, and likewise the voltage variable from 1.5 to 120 volts.' The apparatus was used to revive a potentially stillborn infant at Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney whose heart continued 'to beat on its own accord', 'at the end of 10 minutes' of stimulation. [42] Inventing Australia is one of those books that appears in many, many bibliographies but I hadn’t read it until now. The grammar of the title is important- Invent ing Australia- because his argument is that the search for a distinctively Australian identity is an ongoing and never-ending one. It’s not like Benedict Anderson’s Imagin ed Communities where the tense of the title suggests that the concept of community identity has been developed and reified.

Studies of data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office unfortunately reveal inventors with a female-sounding first name are less successful at having their patent granted than those with a male-sounding first name. Saunders, Anthony (2000). Dominating the Enemy: War in the Trenches 1914–1918. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton. p.101. ISBN 0-7509-2444-6. R. W. Linn, 'Stobie, James Cyril (1895–1953)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 314–315.Michell, Anthony George Maldon (1870–1959)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Wool technology, 1957, Improvements in wool production and processing by CSIRO". Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856–1937)". Australian Dictionary of Biography Online – Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856–1937). Australian National University. In 2014 Dr Fiona Wood received an Australian Academy of Technology Sciences and Engineering Award for her invention of spray-on-skin. She is a plastic surgeon from Perth that patented her product in 1999. This product was used in the 2002 Bali bombings to treat the burn victims and ultimately saved 28 people’s lives. Her innovation takes healthy skin from a burn victim and grows new skin cells. It has a significant impact on scarring and recovery. 4. Google Maps

The implications of women falling out of the patent system are significant for a number of reasons. For one, patents with female inventors are more likely to focus on female diseases. Australian Academy of Science. "Interviews with Australian scientists: Professor Bill Compston". Archived from the original on 9 August 2010 . Retrieved 10 November 2010.The book finishes with the 1970s youth culture, dissatisfaction over Vietnam, New Left intellectuals, the women’s movement and multiculturalism. Reading the book thirty years on, the ending seemed rather abrupt and many other later developments flood to mind – tourism, changes in multiculturalism and immigration patterns, new media, the History Wars- the list goes on and on. How would these events challenge or alter his hypothesis? I wonder. Pneumatic broadacre air seeder – lightweight air seeder uses a spinning distributor, blew the seeds through a pipe into the plating tynes. [59] Crankless engine– Engines that eliminated the need for a crankshaft found in most automotive and stationary engines was invented by Anthony Michell. The engines did not require connecting rod and bearings found in most engines and as such could be lighter and more compact. [34] [35]

Orbital engine – The orbital internal combustion process engine was invented by engineer Ralph Sarich of Perth, Western Australia. The system uses a single piston to directly inject fuel into 5 orbiting chambers. It has never challenged the dominance of four-stroke combustion engines but has replaced many two-stroke engines with a more efficient, powerful and cleaner system. Orbital engines now appear in boats, motorcycles and small cars. [77]

St Vincents heart valve – An artificial heart valve designed by Dr Victor Chang for the replacement of dysfunctional ventricle heart valves in people with chronic heart diseases at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. [112]

Photograph - Crankless Engines (Australia) Pty Ltd, Uniflow Condensing Steam Engine, Fitzroy, Victoria, 1921" . Retrieved 24 May 2019. Australia is behind the indispensable ultrasound machine in 1961. The inventors are David Robinson and George Kossof who were in the employ of the Department of Health. 15. Bionic Ear Ireland, T.R.; Clement, S.; Compston, W.; Foster, J. J.; Holden, P.; Jenkins, B.; Lanc, P.; Schram, N.; Williams, I. S. (2008), "Development of SHRIMP", Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55 (6): 937–954, Bibcode: 2008AuJES..55..937I, doi: 10.1080/08120090802097427, S2CID 55839574 Car radio – The first car radio was fitted to an Australian car built by Kellys Motors in New South Wales. [36] [37] [38] Gene shears – The discovery of gene shears was made by CSIRO scientists, Wayne Gerlach and Jim Haseloff. So-called hammerhead ribozymes are bits of genetic material that interrupt a DNA code at a particular point, and can be used to cut out genes that cause disease or harmful proteins. [107]

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