What is Australia famous for?
 

Just to help out those who are drawing up a pros and cons list...

What is Australia famous for?

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Would a mod please close this thread as there will obviously be no valid replies.. :rofl::rofl:

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Whinging poms !:sneaky:

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Why on earth would someone consider what was invented in a country as a reason to stay/go. Bizarre :confused:

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They don't call me Bizzaro Brissy for nothing.

Now... who invented the sunshine and the beach...?

But seriously... what else is Australia famous for?

Re: What is Australia famous for?
 

The cardiac pacemaker
Cochlear implant
"black box" flight recorders
The tank
The world's first stem cell treatment for heart attack was performed here
CPAP machine
Spray on skin to treat burns
Wi-Fi

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ian_inventions

We await these being disputed or claimed by England or this list isn't as big as ours, Vegemite, what about Marmite ........... :D

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The first usable military tank was developed and built during WW1 by both Britain and France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank

na na na na na


Cochlear implant developed by an American.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant

Black box flight recorder, originally by French and Finnish inventors, Australia just added the sound recorder to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder

Pace maker

A British idea from 1899, in 1926 an Australian first tried it out, but the patient had to be attached to an electricity point, so not really usable except in certain circumstances, the Americans devised the first externable wearble one, and the Swedes the first implantable one.

CPAP, again an American invention, the Ausralians just developed their own variation of that machine.

Dorothy, you should have known that people would look them up, and only have posted those you were certain of,

Spray on skin, is the only one I can find that was first developed by an Australian.

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You forgot wifi, invented by the CSIRO.

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As my sons would say epic fail :). I did once see someone claim Australia invented the pie LOL. I think an Australian invented refrigeration? Also putting an engine on a lawn mower but not the lawn mower itself.

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Wasn't in Dorothy's list though..

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Mmm, Dr Fiona Wood who developed spray on skin was born in Yorkshire and only arrived in Australia in 1987.

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Yeah it was right at the end of the list.

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Sorry, my bad.. :ohmy:

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Chiko roll...... dim sim