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Awesome Aussie Inventions

A lot of people tend to think of Australia as a kind of desert island with a small population, kangaroos and koalas and not much else. While we may not have as many humans we have made some pretty neat inventions over the years. THIS IS NOT ALL THE INVENTIONS, just some of the ones people might know of. Listed by oldest first.

Stone Cutting Tools. Aboriginal Australians have been using stone tools for up to 50,000 years ago. Believed to be the first humans to use stone tools for cutting and grinding.

Boomerang There are actually many types of Boomerang, the most well known being the returning boomerang. Invented by Indigfenous Australian 10s of 1000s of years ago.

Didgeridoo (500 BC) We don’t know for sure but the Didgeridoo has been around for at least 2000yrs. Used to make music and tell stories as well as for healing. I love the sound of a well played didgeridoo.

Woomera (3000 BC) Invented by Indigenous Australians well over 5000 yrs ago. Made out of wood and used as an extension to your arm to throw a spear further and faster. Before the invention of the self-loading rifle the Woomera and spear wwere the fastest weapons in the world.

Pre-paid Postage (1838) world’s first pre-paid postal system using pre-stmaped sheets as envelopes introduced by James Raymond the NSW Colonial Postmaster-General.

Kelpie (1900s) A type of dog specifically bred to cope with the aussie environment and help with mustering and droving.

Notepad (1902) J.A. Birchall took loose sheets of paper, cut them in half, put cardboard at their back then glued the top edge. Thus the notepad was born.

Feature Length Movie (1906)

Armoured Tank (1912) Lance de Mole, a civil engineer and inventor submitted proposal and extensive drawings to the British War Office that ended up becoming the tank.

Drip Rifle (1915) Used at Gallipoli to evactuate the troops without the Turks knowing. The rifles were self-fire based on water dripping into a container. Many were set up with different sized containers and drip rates so the guns would still fire randomly and the Turks would not know they were actually evacuating.

Vegemite (1922) Made from left-over yeast from the beer-making process

Electronic Pacemaker (1926)

Flying Doctor Service (1928) Reverend John Flynn founded the world’s first Aerial Medical Service.

Humidicrib (1930s)

The Ute (1934) AKA pick-up truck. (ute is short for utility)

Wine Cask (1935) Known as ‘goon’. A cardboard box that made selling wile cheaply in bulk possible.

Penicillin (1940s) Howard Florey developed a way to manufacture penicillin to be used to treat infections in humans.

Zinc Cream (1940s) White sunblock

Folding Stroller (1942)

Hills Hoist (1948)

School of the Air (1950)

Solar Hot Water (1953)

Black Box Flight Data Recorder (1953)

Stainless Steel Braces (1956)

Garage Roller door (1956) Very disputed invention but documentation shows it was first produced by B&D in 1956.

Plastic Lenses (1960) Frequently used in sunglasses

Disposable Latex Gloves (1960s)

Ultrasound (1961)

Insect Repellent (1963)

Inflatable Escape Slide/ Life Raft (1965) Made to help you survive a water landing in a plane.

Microsurgery (1968)

Cycloprothin (1970s) A non-toxic insecticide used in asia to control pests in rice paddies

Dynamic Lifter (1970s) Fertiliser pellets used worldwide

Power board (1972) Used in houses all over the world as a way to make one wall power socket available for a few power plugs

Wave Energy System (1975) a zero-emission electricity energy system using the oceans swell.

Triton Workbench (1976)

Cochlear Implant (1978)

Dual Flush Toilet (1982) Invented to help save water

IVF Embryo Freeze - thaw procedure (1983)

Plastic Bank Notes (1988)

Wi-Fi Technology (1990) Dr John O’Sullivan created a Fast Fourier Transform Chip, realised it’s potential and with the CSIRO helped create Wi-Fi as we know it.

Calicivirus (1995) Used to help control the feral population of rabbits. Only affects rabbits and is very successful. First accidentally released in 1995 and reduce the rabbit population by about 80%. 10,000,000 rabbits killed in 8 weeks. Rabbits are responsible for a lot of damage to native plants and also crops and a big reason the Lesser Bilby became exinct and the Greater Bilby is endangered.

Spray-on-skin (1999) to help burns victims recover, takes their own skin and makes is so they can spray it on the wound.

Google Maps (2005) Web mapping service invented by brother Lars and Jens Rasmussen, further developed by an Australian team in Sydeny then pitched to Google.

Biopower Tidal Device (2006) Clean energy made from waves and tides.

Stainless Steel Braces (1956)

HPV Vaccine (2006)

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MERCEDES- BENZ

To tell the glorious story of the MERCEDES-BENZ brand, it is first necessary to understand who the men were responsible for its emergence. KARL (CARL) FRIEDRICH MICHAEL BENZ - Born on November 25, 1844, he is considered the creator of the first internal combustion vehicle in the city of Mannheim in Germany, where he held a small workshop. This is because, on January 29, 1886, this German engineer submitted the patent application in Berlin for his single-cylinder rear-wheel-drive tricycle (Patent-Motorwagen) with 984cc of power and which developed a maximum speed of 16 km / h. In addition, the vehicle incorporated at the time many solutions still used in modern vehicles, such as water cooling, electric ignition and differential. Since then, this day is considered the official anniversary of the automobile. Benz's first four-wheeled car, the Victoria of 1892, was also the basis for the creation of the first bus and van built in 1895. The first production car was Benz Velo. In 1898 rubber tires were used in Benz Comfortable and, in 1899, in the first race car. Benz & Co., not only became the first assembly line but also the largest in the world in the early twentieth century. In 1903 came the Benz Parsifal inspired by the design concepts of Daimler's Mercedes cars.

GOTTLIEB WILHELM DAIMLER - Born on March 17, 1834, he graduated as an engineer at the age of 25 at the Stuttgart Polytechnic. He was associated with Mr. Wilhelm Maybach (great designer, creator of classic and legendary Maybach automobiles) and produced in 1885 the world's first motorcycle. In 1886, a few months after the emergence of the Benz tricycle, they built the first carriage driven by an air-cooled engine. In November 1890 he founded the Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft (known as DMG). In 1893 for reasons of rivalries between the partners Daimler and Maybach detach of the company. Back in 1895, they produced the Phoenix in 1897, the first car with a front engine. Two years later came the first 28hp 4-cylinder engine.

Before the Benz and Daimler projects came to fruition, other experiments with motor vehicles had already been made in Europe, especially in England and France. However, the novelty presented by the Germans was the use of a model driven by a combustion engine (gasoline) invented by Nikolaus August Otto. Until then, previous experiments were restricted to steam engines. The pioneerism of these two men made them collect other achievements such as the construction of the first bus, the first gasoline-powered truck and the world's first diesel truck.

On June 23, 1902 the name MERCEDES was registered as a trademark and, shortly after, on September 26, it was legally protected. It came from a reference to Mercedes Jellinek, daughter of the Austrian consul Emil Jellinek, a car-loving merchant and loyal customer of Gottlieb Daimler, from which he resold automobiles for the riches of the French Riviera. The name Mercedes identified the cars commissioned by Jellinek, a motoring enthusiast and who was consecrated from the victories obtained in the tracks. This project was a huge success, both in sales and racing. Daimler had to increase production, hire more employees (six times more) and decided to use the name MERCEDES in their cars. With the merger of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cia., On 28 June 1926 the two brands were also merged: the three-pointed star, which identified the MERCEDES cars manufactured by Daimler, and the blondes, which characterized those of Benz. MERCEDES-BENZ was officially launched. The first two Daimler-Benz creations were the Stuttgart 8 / 38PS and the 12 / 55PS Mannheim. In 1927 the first MERCEDES-BENZ model S, from Sportlich (sports car in German), an acronym used to date in the S-Class, followed by the SS (Super Sport) and SSK (Super Sport Kurz, developed by the legendary Ferdinand Porsche) was introduced. 1928. It was these models that established the luxury reputation of MERCEDES-BENZ cars. Certainly the most admired and desired automobiles of this era were the models 380, 500K and 540K that emerged respectively in 1933, 1934 and 1936.

In 1943 the production of automobiles and utilities for the war was privileged to the detriment of the production of the cars of walking. Forced workers were also used in several Daimler-Benz AG plants. The Sindelfingen factory was bombed on July 18, 1944. Almost 80% of the buildings and facilities were destroyed, as well as 50% of the existing machines. The factory was hit by approximately 20,000 explosives and incendiary bombs. In 1945 the factory was completely rebuilt in view of new trends in the design and modernization of automobiles for the coming years. Shortly after the end of World War II, in 1946, Daimler-Benz resumed manufacturing of its automobiles. The inaugural model of the post-war was the 170, a car identical to that of the year 1936 with some minor revisions. At that time the German economy was rebuilding itself and needed cheap and popular automobiles. The model had adequate performance with a 4-cylinder in-line engine. By 1950 MERCEDES-BENZ was producing about 800 cars per week. With the recovery of the German economy, new, more powerful models were desired by consumers. Thus appear in 1951 the models, 220, 300 and 300S.

In 1953 was released the model 180, known in the world as Mercedes Ponton. Its successors were the 190s and 220s, which emerged in 1956, and the 220SE model (which already had mechanical fuel injection Bosch) in 1958. The most coveted models of the 1950s were the 300SL coupe, which appeared in 1954, roadster (1957) and the 190SL roadster (1955). With the 300SL model coupe MERCEDES-BENZ returned to the race tracks with continued and important wins. Being the first car in production to be equipped with mechanical fuel injection, newly developed by Bosch, the car was very fast and sturdy. In 1960 came a new line of sedans known as fish tail, developed to meet the taste of American consumers. To replace the sedans of the 1960s appeared, in 1973 and were until 1980, the new W116 sedans or 280S, 280SE, 350SE, 450SE and 450SEL. They were built to be the best vehicles in the world in their category and really were.

By the 1980s the automaker's luxury sedan line, the S models (the concept of the MERCEDES-BENZ line had not yet been created) were completely remodeled and went majestic until the 1990s. But the decade was actually the W201 chassis with the models 190E, 190D, 190E 2.3, 190E 2.6. This chassis was the first to be aimed at young European entrepreneurs who did not yet have the financial conditions to buy the most luxurious models, but did not give up having a MERCEDES-BENZ. From 1994, MERCEDES-BENZ simplified the positioning of the models by creating the famous classes. Class C (replacing 190E), Class E and Class S were created. MERCEDES-BENZ was the first luxury brand to launch an SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) in the late 1990s, inaugurating a new off-road generation with the M-Class. In 1998 the company bought the traditional American automaker Chrysler, thus forming a giant called DaimlerChrysler. However, the union proved to be extremely damaging to the MERCEDES-BENZ brand over the years, which began to suffer huge financial losses due to the bureaucratic and aging American automaker. The union between the two automakers would end on May 14, 2007 separating the two companies.

In recent years the German brand has been investing in new technologies and connectivity. An example of this is MERCEDES ME, a powerful system of connectivity and interactivity that connects the car and the user with the world. Another novelty is the DYNAMIC SELECT technology that allows the driver to change the vehicle's characteristics, including engine, transmission, suspension and steering, in seconds - at the touch of a button the driving modes are changed from the more comfortable, through the more sporty, to the most efficient. In addition, MERCEDES-BENZ promises to launch its first series-produced stand-alone car in 2020. Another bet of the German automaker are fully electric cars. MERCEDES-BENZ intends to launch six to eight fully electric luxury models in the coming years and thus enter a segment dominated by the American Tesla.

Throughout its history MERCEDES-BENZ has always played a fundamental role in the development of technologies that aim to give more safety to automobiles. Many of the innovative visions have become realities in a pioneering way in automobiles of the German automaker. Among these innovations are the anti-lock braking system ABS (1978), the air-bag (1980) and the electronic stability program known as ESP® (1995). Nowadays, the new accident safety system, called Pre-Safe®System, which prepares the car and its occupants for the collision agind

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