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Book Synopsis Australia's Greatest Inventions by : Lynda De Lacey
Download or read book Australia's Greatest Inventions written by Lynda De Lacey and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Greatest Inventions; From boomerangs to the Hills Hoist by Lynda de Lacey Australia has a reputation for innovation and inventiveness - that famous 'tie it up with fence-wire' attitude towards getting things done is one of our best-known national characteristics. Popular opinion tells us that a knack for adaptation - for jerry rigging and so-called 'bush improvisation' - is one of the qualities that marks us out as Australian. If you had to play 'spot the Australian' among other nationalities, you'd choose the ones with the duct tape and pliers in their hands. But ask your average Aussie to reel off a list of uniquely Australian inventions at a pub trivia night, and most won't get much further than the stump-jump plough, the Hills Hoist, Speedos and the pavlova. Suddenly you may find yourself wondering if we're all that inventive as a culture after all? These examples certainly don't seem to build a terribly convincing case. This book proves that for a 200-year-old culture with a relatively small population, Australians have a much richer inventive history than we give ourselves credit for. Once we've seen that this reputation for inventiveness is justified, the next question becomes; is there something in our cultural wiring, something about being Australian, that makes us more inventive than other people?
Book Synopsis Australia's Greatest Inventions and Innovations by : Christopher Cheng
Download or read book Australia's Greatest Inventions and Innovations written by Christopher Cheng and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Australia's Greatest Inventions and Innovations, you will find out about our nation's most ingenious inventions, their makers, and how to turn a bright idea into a useful creation."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis 101 Great Australian Inventions by : Paul Holper
Download or read book 101 Great Australian Inventions written by Paul Holper and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read all about the madcap Australian inventors who have influenced the world - from their invention of the world's first feature-length film to ultra-sound technology, from the detection of quasars and supernova to much, much more! Learn about indigenous and enduring Australian inventions, high-tech inventions such as Sarich orbital engine and gene technology and inventions that were snapped up by other countries, such as penicillin and Hargraves' flight designs. Read about spectacular failures such as Clement Wragge's crazy idea to create rain-bearing clouds. Take a look at what's on the drawing board, inventions that are still to make their mark and the inventions of tomorrow. This step-by-step guide to inventing will encourage readers to brainstorm their own experiments.
Book Synopsis The Great Big Book of Aussie Inventions by : Chris Roy Taylor
Download or read book The Great Big Book of Aussie Inventions written by Chris Roy Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 100 amazing Aussie inventions! The Great BIG Book of Aussie Inventions takes you on a colourful, panoramic journey from the Aussie bush to the coast and introduces you to some of the weird, whacky and amazing inventions that have come from the land Down Under.Most people know popular Aussie inventions such as the boomerang, the Hills Hoist and the Lamington. But did you also know that Aussies invented the army tank, plastic money and shoe polish?You'll have hours of fun discovering and learning about Australia's well known and more obscure inventions.....try and find the elusive Bunyips hidden on each page.
Book Synopsis Australia's Best Inventions by : Karen McGhee
Download or read book Australia's Best Inventions written by Karen McGhee and published by Australian Geographic. This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stump-jump plough to wi-fi, Australia is filled with innovative men and women who have solved all kinds of problems. Learn about great Aussie breakthroughs in medicine, safety and technology, and discover the origins of some true-blue classics!
Book Synopsis Great Aussie Inventions by : Amy Hunter
Download or read book Great Aussie Inventions written by Amy Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes Australians such brilliant inventors? Whose idea was the black box flight recorder? Who thought of spray-on skin? The Safe-n-Sound baby capsule? And the Hills Hoist clothes line? Australian inventions. You use them every day. In this book you will meet some of the amazing Australian inventors who have made our world a safer and better place to live in
Download or read book Look at That! written by Nicholas Searle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's invention show now has a book of greatest hits! After six years on ABC tV, tHE NEW INVENtORS has featured nearly 700 amazing Australian inventions, including a re-usable coffin, a two-headed drill, a hands-free tap, a collapsible water tank, a pointy bike helmet, a bird-friendly fish hook, a double-clipping clothes peg and a sticky bowl. LOOK At tHAt! explores some of the most ingenious and surprising inventions tHE NEW INVENtORS has presented - the winners of accolades both on the show and around the world. It provides a detailed account of 50 inventions and reveals what has happened to them since they appeared on television, as well as highlighting scores of other inventions seen on the show. A treasure trove of great ideas and amazing solutions for readers aged eight to 80, LOOK At tHAt! is the perfect book for anyone interested in what Australia's best and brightest are up to in their back sheds.
Book Synopsis Great Australian World Firsts by : Chrystopher J. Spicer
Download or read book Great Australian World Firsts written by Chrystopher J. Spicer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sir Jack Brabham (first to win a Grand Prix in a car of his own design) to Tom Angove (inventor of the wine cask), from Bruce Thompson (introduced the first dual flush toilets) to Mary Fortune (the first female author of detective fiction), here are the world's great ideas, inventions, feats and follies, as done first, by Australians.
Download or read book Australian Genius written by Vivien Encel and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Greatest Invention by : Silvia Ferrara
Download or read book The Greatest Invention written by Silvia Ferrara and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.
Book Synopsis Australia's Best Inventions by : Robert Gott
Download or read book Australia's Best Inventions written by Robert Gott and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Scientists by : Corey Tutt
Download or read book The First Scientists written by Corey Tutt and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2023 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS ‘PATRICIA WRIGHTSON PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE’ SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS ‘INDIGENOUS WRITERS' PRIZE’ WINNER OF THE 2022 ABIA ‘BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN’ SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 CBCA 'EVE POWNALL' AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS 'CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD' The First Scientists is the highly anticipated, illustrated science book from Corey Tutt of DeadlyScience. With kids aged 7 to 12 years in mind, this book will nourish readers’ love of science and develop their respect for Indigenous knowledge at the same time. Have you ever wondered what the stars can tell us? Did you know the seasons can be predicted just by looking at subtle changes in nature? Maybe you have wondered about the origins of glue or if forensic science is possible without a crime scene investigation. Australia's First peoples have the longest continuing culture on Earth and their innovation will amaze you as you leaf through the pages of this book, learning fascinating facts and discovering the answers to life's questions. In consultation with communities, Corey tells us of many deadly feats – from bush medicine to bush trackers – that are today considered 'science', and introduces us to many amazing scientists, both past and present. The breadth of ‘sciences’ is incredible with six main chapters covering astronomy, engineering, forensic science, chemistry, land management and ecology. The first scientists passed on the lessons of the land, sea and sky to the future scientists of today through stories, song and dance, and many of these lessons are now shared in this book. Vibrant illustrations by Blak Douglas bring the subjects to life, so you’ll never think about science as just people in lab coats ever again!
Book Synopsis Australian Inventions by : Jane Campbell
Download or read book Australian Inventions written by Jane Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis No. 8 Re-wired: 202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World by : David Downs
Download or read book No. 8 Re-wired: 202 New Zealand Inventions That Changed the World written by David Downs and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-09-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father. No. 8 Re-wired is a comprehensive, colourful treasury of New Zealand inventions – jam-packed with the stories behind 202 home-grown creations and the crafty people who dreamt them up. From well-known innovations (human flight, the discovery of DNA, the pavlova) to lesser-known feats (instant coffee, the referee's whistle, the electronic petrol pump) to the newest in high-tech world-firsts (robots and jetpacks!), it is the most complete and entertaining book ever on Kiwi ingenuity. And, yes, the pav is definitely ours. A surprising and absorbing account of Kiwi can-do, and a celebration of the No. 8 wire spirit on which New Zealand is built, it's also a revealing look at how innovation can power us into the future. 'No. 8 Re-wired brilliantly celebrates New Zealanders' disrespect for the status quo.' —Sir Ray Avery
Book Synopsis Australian Inventors by : Leo Weiser Port
Download or read book Australian Inventors written by Leo Weiser Port and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1978 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's inventors and their inventions, to 1978. Includes Ridley and Bull stripper-harvester, Richard Smith's stump-jump plough, Lance Hill's rotary clothes line and many more.
Download or read book Henry Sutton written by Lorayne Branch and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have no hesitation in claiming Henry Sutton is Australia's greatest ever inventor and, indeed, one of the greatest inventors the world has ever seen. The range of his inventions is extraordinary, including in lighting, batteries, telephony and wireless telegraphy, photography, flight, microscopy, and car engines. Yet he remains shamefully unheralded. Admired and befriended by some of the great scientists and engineers of his time, such as Nikola Tesla and Alexander Graham Bell, his achievements are largely unrecognized. This Australian inventor, working in isolation in Ballarat in the decades around the turn of the 20th century, deserves a place in the pantheon of contributors to the modern technological age.
Book Synopsis Australian Great Ideas and Achievements by : Neville Charles Stephenson
Download or read book Australian Great Ideas and Achievements written by Neville Charles Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
