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BIG Aussie Stuff
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Truck - Dysart, QLD
Trout - Adaminaby, NSW
Potato - Robertson, NSW
Boot - Rozelle, NSW
Milkshake Containers - Kyabram, VIC
More Big Aussie things
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Oz World Records
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• biggest jump on a quad bike
• largest guacamole dip
• largest country line dance
• smallest constellation (Southern Cross)
• most heads shaved
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Famous Australian Ideas and Innovations
You're going to be very surprised at some of the great inventions Australians have been responsible for...
Heck, we're even NOW responsible for turning dishwater and beer into electricity, AND running cars on nothing but water!
This page presents a variety of those for your perusal - please REFRESH to see a different selection of ten Aussie innovations.
To find out more, can I suggest you visit
The Power House Museum and Questacon
- The Sydney GPO had the world's first mechanised Letter Sorting Machine in 1930. It was developed by an engineer with the Postmaster General's Department.
- In Victoria, the first prototype of a solar water heating system was developed by the CSIRO in 1953
- The Victa Mower, a revolutionary two-stroke petrol lawnmower with rotary blades was much easier to use than its older push/pull cousins. It was invented in 1952 by Mervyn Victor Richardson, a salesman from Sydney.
- Developed by Dr Saul Weiner, Redback Spider Antivenom was released in 1956.
- The first Black Box Flight Recorder recorded the pilot's voice and some instrument readings was invented in 1958 by Dr David Warren from Melbourne. It is now used in aircraft worldwide.
- Dr Arthur Farnworth of the CSIRO added a special resin to wool fibres in 1957 to change their chemical structure to create Permanent Crease Trousers.
- It wasn't the first Australian rotary clothesline with a winding mechanism which allowed the frame to be raised and lowered, but the Hills Clothes Hoist (developed by Lance Hill in Adelaide in 1945) was certainly the most successful.
- In 1906, the story about the Kelly Gang was the world's first feature length film.
- The radio telescope in Parkes, NSW, received and relayed to the world pictures of the first moon landing in 1969
- The Baby Safety Capsule was invented in 1983. Now, the Australian Standard for infant and child restraints is one of the most stringent in the world, demanding an extremely rigorous degree of protection.
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