In my opinion, the cochlear ear implant should be in the top ten.

The Bunnings sausage sizzle has to be one of the best things Australia has invented

The Dual Flush toilet is an Aussie invention, now used around the world.

The Jaws of Life, used to cut cars open following crashes, Pacemaker, a Scotsman discovered Penicillin, but it was an Aussie who perfected purification of Penicillin, the Bionic Ear, the Winged Keel which enabled Australia to win the America's Cup. Just a few Aussie inventions.

the Australian invention that has helped the world the most is the thin latex glove that are used by everyone from doctors to mechanics. They were invented by Ansell who wanted to diversify from making condoms.

Don't forget McCafe started in Melbourne, and now has gone worldwide, it took an Aussie to combine a cafe with ya burger!

Some lesser known ones to add are... the wine cask, full length feature films and the first movie film, plastic spectacle lens, multifocal contact lens, spray on skin (burns patients), anti flu medication and cervical cancer vaccine... so many, too many to name here. Thanks for sharing.

You had me bristling at the start with the “Scottish invention of penicillin” comment😀! Fleming may have stumbled across the mould and it’s properties, but it was Australian Howard Florey who refined the mould and turned it into a usable medicine. Both Fleming and Florey, as well as German Ernst Chain were awarded the Nobel Prize for it, but people only ever seem to remember Fleming, sadly. So it really should be remembered as a joint Scottish, Australian and German invention - each played distinct but important roles, dependent on one another. Yes, WiFi. Not many people realize that one.

There are hundreds of inventions by Australians. This video didn't even mention refrigeration, the bionic ear, motorised lawn mower, IVF, ETC. The Scotsman didn't create the penicillin serum, he only discovered penicillin by accident. Howard Florey was the one who created the serum and was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work.

Australia also invented the '8 hour work day', and the word 'Selfie'. 😊

The Hills Hoist was developed in Adelaide, South Australia by World War II veteran Lance Hill in 1945. July 20, 1969 An Aussie sheep station picked up transmissions & broadcast mans 1st step on the moon to the world.

Did you know Australian currency is designed to be distinguishable for the blind. Each note is a specific size that can go into special wallets or devices that contain Braille so you can tell the note by which Braille slot it can fit into. And each coin is designed not only using special sizes you can distinguish but there are ridges on the size that have patterns to help the blind tell them apart.

James Harrison invented the world's first commercial refrigeration in Victoria Australia, to make ice. He was born in Scotland so we can share this one.

Other inventions: Cochlear Implant, rotary lawn mower, spray on skin, refrigerator (a Scottish born Australian named James Harrison), electronic pacemaker, winged keel, permaculture, plastic spectacle lenses, permanent crease clothing, cervical cancer vaccine, Frazier Lense, the notepad, splayds, dual flush toilet.

The Crane you see on top of all the high rise buildings is called the Kangaroo crane and invented in Aussie

That heavy industrial bearing invented by an Aussie back in the late 1800s, there is one from that time in a hydro power station in the USA that the maintenance engineer said "with proper maintenance it should last 1,000 years,!"

Yes Australians invented all of these things and a lot more. We didnt get to where we are by sitting around waiting for something. We made it happen, pretty resourceful bunch, us Aussies. 😎🇦🇺

G'day Mate! And Aussies have made enormous contributions to medical health affecting millions! Like the discovery that the "helicobacter" as the cause of most stomach ulcers...The HPV vaccine...Amongst so many others...Cheers!

Breathable contact lenses (multi day leave in), PERC solar cells (dominant technology used today), vanadium flow batteries (just starting to make commercial impact but will be big is stationary storage), solar hot water, the scramjet, and the cervical cancer vaccine are ones I cant see mentioned elsewhere. Refrigerator still probably the most impactful and life saving of the lot.

Australia invented and patented the worlds first electric Iron - from tasmania

Another Aussie, a bloke also called Sullivan, invented the 'continuous positive air pressure' (CPAP) machine. Since 1980, it has turned around and saved the lives of millions who suffer/ed with sleep apnoea.

Everyone here is noting down the more impressive Aussie inventions but something that's a bit more mundane (but still used quite a lot), is the glue-bound notepad/writing-pad. It believe it was developed by a stationery maker in Tasmania in the early 1900's. (Or something like that.) Something way more important and quite a bit more recent (1993) was the 'spray-on skin' treatment/technique for burn victims. Also from memory, there were some shenanigans about it's early use but it eventually got cleared for use in a few places. I remember in school - I can't remember what subject it was, but this quote was hammered in all the time: "Necessity is the mother of all invention". Living in a place like early Australia, I believe that was definitely the case.

You’ll notice that the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) was involved in a couple of these discoveries. It used to be very well funded and a world leading organisation. Unfortunately they have had their budget slashed more recently. So I feel we are less likely to be world leaders in scientific research for much longer. One of my friends works for them quite high up in the meteorological department, and has on and off most of her career. They are working with a fraction of their previous staffing levels.

and QANTAS , the first commercial airline, the name itself stands for Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service, and it has recently had its 100th Anniversary

Thomas Angove, a winemaker from Renmark, South Australia was the one to create Casked Wine. Instead of using barrels or bottles, he created the Cask Bags for wine.

The invention of thr non returnable Boomerang commonly known as a stick was invented by an Australian indigenous person 45,000 yrs ago he also invented the bagless bagpipe known locally as a Digeridoo . More recent inventions include the left handed screwdrivers, Sriped paint, Knacker Lacquer(which adds luster to your cluster) and the footlong Condom , which was only a hit in Australia , we also invented more mundane things like the motor mower the rotary cloths line , the 40 hr working week the Neoprene stubby holder , casked wine and the selfie ,I could go on but I'm too busy invented shit , my current projects are the self peeling prawn and the non drippable meatpie .

Yes to the absolute horror to Americans, an Aussie invented the electric drill. There are a lot of "Merican's" who believe Aussies are backward barbarians the beat each other over the head with clubs. There is a bearing which was invented back in the early 1900's which are still used today. They are used in super heavy duty machinery. Some of the first bearings made are still in operation today. I think we also came up with the flying fox camera system used in the game of cricket. The one I find the best is the Hill Hoist Clothes Line.

Ah, yes Scotland invented TV. John Logie Baird. In Australia our TV awards are called LOGIE awards 😊

I think Australian scientists pioneered IVF, too. Could be wrong but I’m old enough to vaguely remember hearing that somewhere.

the victa rotary lawn mower and the Hills rotary clothes dryer, the plastic baskets for growing oysters, the thompson coupler, the Mchitch towing coupler

To add a couple more - we invented 3D radar (Interscan) that is used in every airport in the world - and also the first 3D sonar system (Mulloka).

Australians are great inventors hardship creates great people 💕

While Alexander Fleming is often credited with discovering penicillin in 1928, Howard Walter Florey oversaw initial clinical trials and led the team that first produced large quantities of this antibiotic, which played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II.

Here's something not many people know about... "Most prominently, Adelaide became the starting point for William Bragg and his son Lawrence to share the 1915 Nobel Prize physics prize for their work in X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction and crystal structure." By the 1950s, X-ray cystallography was used in the UK to determine the structure of DNA. Lawrence Bragg was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. He and his father worked together in Adelaide on X ray diffraction before moving to the UK to continue their research work.

The first military tank was invented by an Aussie, but because our military came under the British umbrella, they took credit for it. Also, the first modern submarine vessel was an Australian concept.

The aviation and wifi relate to the vastness of the land and how much we have to travel. We fly a lot. In relation to the proximity of the rest of the world, we have to. We're pretty used to long distances.

Howard Florey, as has already been pointed out actually refined the penicillin. He used the Aussie soldiers in the Middle East during the war to test out the dosages. My father had shrapnel wounds and he was one of his test subjects.

Australians have been great in the medical field- Professor Ian Frazer, a (Scottish born) Australian, was the inventor of a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the infection that causes cervical cancer. Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren, two Australian researchers discovered the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and deciphered its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease meaning treatment is now via antibiotics and not surgery. Dr Fiona Wood (British born) AO is an Australian plastic surgeon who invented “spray-on skin” technology for use in treating burn victims. Professor Graeme Clark AC pioneered one of Australia’s greatest bioengineering achievements, the multi-channel cochlear implant, the first device to allow severely-to-profoundly deaf people to understand speech.

Some more information: When the black box was first mass-produced the American government said they would not allow any plane with a black box to fly over any part of the USA unless the tech was given away for free. We also had the first city in the southern hemisphere with electric street lighting (Tamworth) About 2 - 10 years after the world's first hydroelectric dam was built we had 2 operating in Gara Gorge near Armidale and another bunch being built, some of which powered towns and large mining operations (late 1800's, early 1900's). The first solar panels were also developed in Armidale, but the government owned the tech (through a university) and blew all the money they had allocated on commercialising it on 'admin' costs, the inventor then offered to buy the patent from the government which refused to sell it, so he went back to china (where patents are pointless) and took his 2 colleagues with him and he is now worth ~$30 billion. We have just developed a solar panel that does not require silver in Australia, instead using copper. it is also the most efficient panel built in the world so far (yet to be in commercial production). Consistant street signing (give way, stop signs etc.) is also an Australian invention. Re: Penecillian - I believe he was australian born and living in scotland? maybe 2 different inventions like you said. Re: wifi - A few years ago Apple decided it didn't want to pay the patent fee for wifi (which amounts to like 5c per chip), so they contacted Qualcomm and both of them just stopped paying, Apple did try to get others on board saying the costs were onerous, which amounts to conspiracy to defraud, but they lost that case and nothing more came of it. In Tamworth the first multi-cd selector/player was invented for radio stations, but the company didn't see any value in it so didn't bother to patent it. This predated the first Japanese units by ~5 years. The periscope was first invented in WW1 by Australians to look over the top of trenches. Also the goon bag (cask wine) was invented here :) Hills hoist clothesline Electric Refrigeration My family may have the first example of a shearing shed with animal pens underneath it (it's going to get flooded out by the dam expansion in the next 10 years)

Racecam is freaking epic, during the race the commentators will have conversations with the drivers while you are watching from inside the car like say a crash happens then they discuss who was at fault with the drivers lol

Cochlea ear implants, stump jump plow, lawn mover, there are a few.

Cochlear implant, Time reference scanning - for landing aeroplanes, spray on skin for burn victims, pacemaker, hendra virus vaccine, mechanical sheep sharing clippers, many and varied types of inventions

🇦🇺 invented dim sims and chiko rolls 😋

Originally Racecam required a Helicopter to be hovering overhead of the cars at the Bathurst 1000

The Scott's invented heaps of stuff but the one that has saved more lives than any single other invention is the Saline Drip

A lot of Aussies have (and are proud to have) Scottish heritage. It is not rare to go to an Australian wedding and have Groom and Men in kilts. [EDIT:] In australia we take care of the bairns, til 16 all medical care can be bulk billed and medication is subsidised (much like the NHS but faster)

Mat did you know how the world saw Man first walk on the moon? Beamed via our Aus huge telescope dishes. Interesting doco why - in PARKES NSW and um was It Honeysuckle Creek? Theres are more inventions but not on KZfaq. I found a list of 60 Aussie inventions in google. One reviewer did it, he just scrolled down the google page. - There is one some disagree on, wifi, there were types of it but not what we all use today. Great doco on KZfaq Re CSIRO WIFI with the Engineers & scientists talking about how they achieved what we all use now. Oh there were court cases over who did what for years I think, Aus won the case. (Sydney born, Australian engineer by the name of John O'Sullivan, led to the invention of wireless Internet) it had something to do with space, some thing to do with Black holes in the universe. I need a refresher lol

A scientist at the CSIRO in the fifties invented atomic absorption spectroscopy (emission spectroscopy had already been a thing for a very long time, but it doesn't have the same applications). The idea led to development of instruments that can accurately identify substances, or that substances are missing where they should be and very quickly became useful in testing for contamination and in medicine to check if a person was deficient in some nutrient.

Heya mate. Just some more kewl aussie inventions. #1 is the Refridgerator???? Torpedo, Tank (yes boom boom tank), Periscope rifle, Pace maker (heart), Aspro, car radio, UTE (tray on back of car), Latex gloves, just to name a few good ones😁👍🤣

I’m happy to share our inventions Irish Scottish Welsh ancestors 💕

8:34 “I had no idea Wifi was invented” 😂

Modern atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) was developed by Australian chemists working for CSIRO in the 1950s.

Penicillin was discovered in Scotland, however, it was an Australian who purified it the useful product it is today. Both the Scottish (Fleming) and the aussie (Florey) shared a Nobel Prize for it. For country with only a handful of people we certainly hold our own in the world of inventions.

The population is approximately 26 MILLION now . The reason the population is relatively small in comparison to its geographic size is that two thirds of Australia is hot arid dry busted ass desert . Australia is definitely a world leader in medical research !

We're a resourceful bunch. If we need something we invent it.

There are too many to mention. You are right to split the discovery and implementation of penicillin to both Scotland and Australia, but you should probably also add Germany/England to the list. Fleming was the original discoverer, but was unable to produce it in anything like a useful quantity. Florey (Australian) and Chain (German born English) were the two most responsible for making penicillin useful. That is why the Nobel Prize was shared between them.

Many of the polymer bank notes used around the world have been manufactured and supplied by Australia.

Although Hills Industries from South Australia were the first to commercially manufacture the rotary clothes hoist, it was in fact invented by Gilbert Toyne and Lambert Downey from Melbourne, Victoria.

7:02 Penicillin was first discovered accidentally by Alexander Fleming (who is Scottish), then during WWII was made into a usable medicine by Aussies

This list is just from my State (South Australia) alone some might be in collaboration with others. 1. Rotary Clothes Line 2. Stobie Pole 3. Sunburn Cream 4. Torrens Land Title System 5. Plastic Toilet Cistern 6. Electoral Secret Ballots 7. Plastic Spectacle Lenses 8. Plastic Air Conditioners 9. Electro Convulsive Therapy 10. Stump Jump Plough 11. Ridley Stripper Harvester 12. Tank Bred Tuna System 13. The Big E Harvester 14. The Plastic Wine Cask 15. Chicken Salt Also from SA are Howard Florey and Sir Mark Oliphant who worked on the project to develop radar and worked on electromagnetic isotope separation which makes atomic bombs work.

Lets not forget the Hills hoist, lawnmower, refrigeration and the bionic ear. They are currently working on a bionic eye.

It has bits and pieces , but the mechanical grain harvester developed for broad acre farming in Australia.

We also invented the fridge! As for WiFi, I think we made it usable rather than invented it!

My Mum worked for Ausonics she put together the components and was used to test out the machines.

Not only did Australia invent polymer bank notes, they manufacture them for other countries.

Cochlear implant, 8 hour work day, "goon bag", stump jump plough, water saving dual flush toilet. FYI Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS FRCP (24 September 1898 - 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.

a lot of aussie inventions were by scottish australians like james harrison that invented the first vapor compression refrigerator and built the first commercial ice makers. penicillin was discovered by alexander flemming but he had no way of producing it in usable quantities howard florey figured out how to grow it and refine it in usable quantities and was the first to treat people with it.

Fleming discovered the penicillium bacteria, wrote a paper, and filed it. The team led by Florey with Chain and Heatley turned the discovery into antibiotics. The Australia professor of medicine at Oxford University in a speech famously noted "Without Fleming, no Chain or Florey; without Florey, no Heatley; without Heatley, no penicillin."

The bank notes were designed to be very easy to distinguish one from another. They are different sizes and the colours are especially bright, with different colours for the different values.

I reckon the rotary clothes line & the rotary lawn mower should have got a mention, then there's the stump jump plough, the Phillips screw head, the portable threshing machine, the lathe cutting tool which allowed unskilled workers to use lathes in manufacturing, the metal alloy that melts at 100 deg. C, used to fill thin wall tubing so it could be bent without distortion, also used on Diesel tank caps to prevent the tanks exploding in a fire, the star picket fence post and I'm sure a few more will come to me later!

Don't worry about us in comparison to Scotland, we have a lot of scots immigrants in the family trees, including 3 of my grandparents. It just takes a good reason and a mechanical, engineer, or scientific brain, or a mixture of those talents. A lot of people invent things in their back-yard sheds, nowadays called the man-cave.. though nowadays a lot of them are bars with big sports tellies and no tools, or car sheds, full of rusty parts and tools.

Australia's population is a bit higher now, at 26 million. I knew about most of these inventions, but had forgotten about the electric drill. Without it, we'd still be living in basic wattle & daub huts! Purifying penicillin for widespread use was obviously huge, too, given how many lives it has saved over the years.

We might be a small country... but in everything we do we punch above our weight. BTW.. your accent is bloody awesome.

Scotsman, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin and its properties but wasn't able to produce usable amounts. Howard Florey led a team that was able to do just that, although, they didn't have the funds to continue it until America came on the scene with the needed funds. There are many other inventions attributed to Australians, like the cochlear implants, the rotary lawn mower, the rotary clothes-line, spray on skin, artificial pacemaker, the first full length movie (Ned Kelly), wine casks and many more.

Arthur James Arnot (26 August 1865 - 15 October 1946) was a Scottish electrical engineer and inventor, best known for patenting the world's first electric drill when he was in Australia.

The things that the Scottish have invented is amazing and I'm an Aussie and love it.

ALL polymer bank notes across the world are made at the Australian Mint

Being isolated we have to be pro active in many things to move forward.... Can't wait on the rest of the 🌏 We are an awesome bunch when you get to know us ✋😉 As other comments advise there are many more inventions we are proud of 🇦🇺🇦🇺 💙

Im Aussie and loving these videos man, keep goin with your channel you're good at it. Just extra info the Aussie money is waterproof, very hard to tear or rip, and very very difficult to counterfeit i think that is the biggest benefit of the polymer note. The new ones have see through sections and holograms that are impossible to reproduce on a printer. I definitely didnt know a lot of these

As a scot, important inventions are: Cochlear Implant (aka Bionic Ear), wine cask / boxed wine (aka Goon Bag), Rotary Lawnmower, Rotary Clothesline, Stump-jump Plow, the over-horizon radar, spray on skin, plastic lens glasses, multifocal glasses, Winged Keel in sailing.

i just want you to know that i laugh every time you include a 'variation' of your name at the start of a video, mert 🤣

Here are some more Ozzie inventions. 1906: Full Length Feature Film 1855: Refridgerator 1912: Armoured tank 1972: Power Board/Strip 1993: Spray on Skin

The rotary cloths line and the rotary lawnmower.

The CSIRO is seriously impressive and important. Unfortunately they have to deal with politicians and politics interfering with funding and research focus.

The long weekend for any excuse, a public holiday for a third-rate horse race, another public holiday for the monarch's birthday which is not held on his/her birthday, and yet another public holiday to celebrate the country's name: Australia Day, sickies to go watch the cricket, four weeks annual leave, long-service leave, holiday leave loading (more pay for being off than for being at work). There's probably more.

Many other important Aussie medical inventions too; the pacemaker, CPAP machines, spray-on skin, bionic ear implants (Cochlear), plastic spectacle lenses, cervical cancer vaccines (Gardasil/Cervarix). And also a few extremely important to us Aussies who like a drink & to spend time outdoors: the refrigerator, rotary-blade lawnmower (ie: the Victa), the Hils Hoist rotary clothesline, plastic wine cask (aka: "goon bag"), the stubby holder (beverage cooler), saltwater pool chlorinator, the surf ski just to name a few. We are even environmental champions on par with the likes of Greta Thunberg by inventing the edible/biodegradable six-pack ring holder, so that we can continue to drink tinnies of VB by the beach and save our endangered marine life at the same time!

SRS Airbag. The yank airbag is dangerous for people wearing seatbelts. So in Australia the Seat-Belt Restrain System was designed. All Australians wear seatbelts while travelling in cars. At the same time the designers developed the first seamless airbag. More lives are saved by this than most things mentioned in the video.

The cochlear implant for assisting people to hear. You could probably do a whole episode on Australian Medical innovations. We are a clever mob. I did know about all but the electric drill. & I don’t know if it an urban legend or not, but my Dad tells me every time one is mentioned.....the black boxes are actually orange....you know for hi-vis

One they missed was the rotary clothes hoist, it made hanging clothes much easier for women from the late 40's forward, that was long before clothes dryers, for those that do not know what a "Hills Hoist" was/is, instead of having to keep picking up a heavy basket full of wet clothes and moving it several times, women could just swing the empty part of the line to them, they could wind it down low while hanging the clothes and then when the washing was on the line, wind it back up in the air

We also invented a bunch of agricultural equipment that the entire world relies on these days. The rotary and stripper headers were both invented here.

Yes, penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming, a Scottish physician-scientist; but Australian pharmacologist-pathologist actually purified penicillin for medical use.

The penicillin one - we didn’t discover penicillin but improved it and the delivery method. One of the more important ones not mentioned here is the jaws of life for cutting people out of cars. Oh we also invented the rotary clothesline and corrugated fencing - less important but still used worldwide.

Actually we did not invent the flight recorder. The first such instruments were used by the French in 1939. It was in 1953 that the Australian guy commercialised the idea and incorporated a voice recorder. (Up to that time they only recorded instrument readings.) Also, Florey did not "discover" penicillin, he simply developed a better way to use it.

Those polymer notes for all the other countries are made at the Australian Mint.

With penicillin I believe Fleming noticed that it killed bacteria, but Florey worked out how to extract it and make it into a usable medicine.

LoL Florey’s antibiotics have probably saved in the order of 1 billion lives, but it comes second to wifi. Hahaha that’s Gen Z for you.

Sire Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, but nobody had come up with a safe, effective medicinal form until Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and their team started working on it about 1939 and by 1942 were able to produced concentrated medicinal penicillin. Fleming, Florey and Chain shared a Nobel prize for it.

Scotland: Macadam roads. Australian: WiFi I could go on

An Aussie, David Warren was the one who invented the "Flight Data" recorder and the " Flight Voice recorder." (Black Boxes)

Earlier Nikola Tesla had the idea in his head of Wi-Fi, but he wasnt sure how to go about it. In his tests he instead created the largest man made lightning bolt by rebounding energy continuously through the planets core. His goal was to wirelessly transfer energy from one tower to another elsewhere. It actually came out on the exact opposite side of the world, it was pure luck that no one was killed. But he did completely flatten a large section of forest on other side. He never worked it out. It was John O'Sullivan and the Government Scientists at CSIRO that cracked it and figured it out.