Mr Charles Bliss was a remarkable man. After all he went through and still wore himself out to give the disabled a voice. God bless all those folk who help unfortunate kids.
When l was a kid in the 60’s l would just like to thank Victa for the opportunity to have a mini bike! Me & my mates got hold of Victa 125 cc engines and modified push bike frames to take pneumatic tyres on wheelbarrow wheels with a sprocket welded to it, no gearbox or anything just a straight drive chain driven & this was before you could buy a mini bike unless you got a paratroopers bike things from the army disposals, geez we had fun flying around the neighbourhood!
Absolutely genius!!! I loved the joy of Charles Bliss it made me just smile and laugh in wonder. People should look back sometimes and see the past as it really was, Incredible!
The first time ultrasound was used for clinical reasons was in 1956. It was used in Glasgow by a Scottish Obstetrician named Ian Donald and an engineer named Tom Brown. These two men developed the first prototype system for ultrasound, but it wasn’t perfected until the end of the 1950s.
Cor. That was really interesting. Well done cuzzies. Number 8 wire mentality and all that. I knew a lot of these were Australian but, some l'd never heard of. Actually read a great book called; The Mold in Dr Florey's Coat - on the story of the discovery of and urgent wartime need for penicillin and the lengths they took to keep it from possibly falling into the wrong hands- hence the title. Am fairly certain they never mentioned Dr Florey was Australian though - probably just called him British and had done with it. Hill's Hoists were/are the best clotheslines ever - nothing beat them for drying ability. Many happy memories of my brother and me flying around on one as kids and many not quite so happy memories of getting our ar$es tanned when we got caught. 😊
An interesting collection of ideas put together in a very watchable documentary. The story of Charles Bliss and his 7,000 letters about his invented sign language to institutions around the world and Sister Kenny and her Polio work were two specials tales of strife and frustration.
It is not really a sign language, which is usually defined to be gestures/shapes formed using the hands. It is just another version of hieroglyphics or an Oriental written language.
I remember the hills clothes line. I used to swing of it when my brother would crank it up . It almost looked like me the kid climbing up the clothes line in this . That way a long lost memory brought back .
what about James Harrison, whose technological advances in mechanical refrigeration meant our ancestors could get cold beer. While people had been using iceboxes to keep stuff cold for thousands of years before James Harrison was even conceived, the Scottish-born Australian was the first to invent and patent a mechanical system to create ice for refrigeration. In 1854, Harrison created a commercial ice-making machine in Geelong, which he then expanded to create a vapour-compression refrigeration system, which he was awarded a patent for in 1855. What made this refrigeration system unique was the use of a compressor to force vapourised ether into a condenser for cooling, where it turned back into liquid. This liquid then made its way through the the refrigeration coils and turned back into gas, which cooled down the insides of the system. According to Wikipedia, the machine used a 5 metre flywheel and could produce 3000kg of ice a day. Harrison continued his innovations in refrigeration, jumping between it and his career as a journalist and editor at The Age. He was one of the pioneers allowing for meat to be shipped between Britain and Australia, although is first experiment was an unmitigated failure thanks to a lack of ice to keep the meat cold enough. Harrison's method of refrigeration is still used by fridges today, although the process has been refined significantly and ether is no longer the gas of choice. But what makes his invention especially brilliant and signifies Aussie ingenuity is that the first company to use his system was a Bendigo-based brewery, Glasgow & Co. That's right - an Aussie invented the fridge and it's first real use was making beer. You have to love this country...
Thank you very much for this as I had been led to believe that it was Carrier that had invented the first method of mechanical refrigeration. Good to know for future discussions with at least one person I know whom told me that as well as makes me proud to be an Australian even more so now. Cheers from John, NSW.
SHANE'O hi Shanehom. This is only a part of the documentaries. There is more to come. Calm down mate 🙂JPL NASA. When I was there One scientist told me the biggest exports for medication. He said “ and I can guarantee you that no Australians even know that” I said “ I did know as it was on 60 minutes one night. I think a greatest invention is the WINE bladder in the box because it was easy to put it in your bag and go to the club/Disco and every time the carafe was nearly empty, we’d refill it and put the bladder back in our bags LOL 😝 How I miss those days... 😩🥴🤢🤮 That’s why I’m a Discoqueen 👸🏼 As I still love my disco music.
John Monash, the father of modern warfare revolutionized the infantry charge by synchronizing shock & awe tactics , tank support and aerial resupply on the western front during WW2, techniques still used today.
@Big Bill O'Reilly You got THAT right, he was completely ignoring the tanks of WWI and massed charges of the Zuly half a century before. Damn! forgot the Romans of 2000 years ago!!!
@@bobpackard9527 Actually it was first used in a co-ordinated attack at the battle of le Hamel, by Australian Troops during WW1. This was a co-ordinated attack using aircraft, artillery, tanks and Infantry, who had been made to study maps and sand models of the terrain and objectives for weeks prior to the attack, so that there was no confusion once the attack commenced. It was the first time all four types of attack were used in a precise co-ordinated manner. It was a complete success with the intended objectives captured within hours instead of days or weeks, at a greatly reduced loss of life. Australian troops advancing way beyond the objectives gaining more ground in a week than in the previous 2-3 years. The Germans later employed the same tactics during WW2 when invading Europe and called it 'Blitzkrieg'. A relatively unknown German Corporal was taken prisoner during the battle. What a shame that young Corporal was not dealt with under Rule .303 when he was first captured. His name was Adolf Hitler....
@@coolhand1964 So you think Corporal Hitler should have been shot ? Rule .303 ? You're mixing your metaphors mate. Breaker Morant was shot by the British for shooting some Boers. Adolf was a dispatch runner-received the Iron Cross....he was no coward. My grandfather shot him in the arse but they respected each other-funny that !🤫
@@coolhand1964 I think the objectives were achieved within 50 or so minutes, 10 or so minutes quicker than Monash's prediction - I might be wrong - but it was quick.
Me too. But it is our risk averse company culture, that prefers to invest in proven overseas ideas. Maybe it is because of the distance to the rest of the world. It is a smarter idea to invest in something from Europe or US because they have the pressure cooker of massive populations to test out an idea and have the economies of scale to support the mass production and get it to market. We are a small population removed from the rest of the world, it is a better bet to play it safe and minimise our risk exposure.
There are many “black boxes” in aircraft... the flight recorder being 1 of them. Its a generic term for quick & easy repair of an electronic nature, via swapping out the defective 1 , with a known good unit. “Hardwired” problems would ground an aircraft for too long a timeframe (esp in wartime) until troubleshot & repaired. The expertise of repair shifted out of the elements , and further away from the warfront. The initially delicate, heavy, and large size of testing equipment is now located in a central, more stable environment... mostly air conditioned... meaning THEY need less frequent repairs as well. There ARE portable test units used on aircraft to help diagnose complicated, multiple connected devices to the faulty black box for its swap out. The orange is used on civilian craft, of saved data boxes to help quickly locate in below water , burned wreckage type scenarios etc.
@@derekcollins1972 Are you talking about the development of penicillin here? Because, it was discovered by a Scottish physician and microbiologist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928. An Australian pharmacologist Howard Florey led a British team of scientists to purify it and make it usable for human consumption. No Canadians however.
There's a few incorrect claims in this video, Penicillin was discovered by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928. Florey lead a team in Oxford England to develop ways of mass producing it. The first rotary lawn mower was built in 1933 by an English company in Berkshire, it was called the 'Rotoscythe', the Victa was very similar but not made until 1952.
Penicillin was discovered by Flemings team at St Mary's hospital Paddington England. He was head of the project but most of the work was done by English technicians in fact the mould that Penicillin was taken from was discovered by accident after it was noticed bacteria that had come into contact with moulding melon skin in a waste bin was destroyed.
@@RicTic66 Do you have a source for that? According to F Diggins, in the article 'The true history of the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming Biomedical Scientist, March 2003, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, London' "By 1927, Fleming had been investigating the properties of staphylococci. He was already well known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but his laboratory was often untidy. On 3 September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory having spent August on holiday with his family. Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory. On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci immediately surrounding the fungus had been destroyed, whereas other staphylococci colonies farther away were normal, famously remarking "That's funny". Fleming showed the contaminated culture to his former assistant Merlin Price, who reminded him, "That's how you discovered lysozyme." Fleming grew the mould in a pure culture and found that it produced a substance that killed a number of disease-causing bacteria. He identified the mould as being from the genus Penicillium, and, after some months of calling it "mould juice", named the substance it released penicillin on 7 March 1929"
@@journeyfortwo5211 Don't spit the dummy mate, lots of bonza stuff was invented in Straya, like budgie smugglers, stubby holders, AFL, XXXX, Melboune Bitter, AC/DC not to mention the winged keel, rip the top off a cold one cobber, cheers.
Not even a mention of Henry Hoke, the most amazing Australian inventor of the lot. I have even made a rope-handled hammer to his original specification, slightly modified. Plus his manual chainsaw.
Funny about that, e.g. pre-dug post holes. I used to send the boy out to dig the post holes meaning that when I turned up to put in the post the holes were already dug. Pointless nail, in fact has been used to minimise the timber splitting. I could also have used his pizzle guard when removing belly wool if I had known about them. Even more amazing is the fact that there is a manual chain saw made commercially and I have one, approximately 2' of an early style chain saw blade attached to two lengths of rope to be thrown over a tree branch and the ropes used to pull it back and forth. Though I must admit petrol works a lot more efficiently.
What a legend these inventors were; they didn't give up or be bullied into submission. They said "Right, I'll take it out of Australia, so that the rest of the world can appreciate it". Australia will remain in the dark because that's what it wants. Amazing to think how many amazing inventions have probably fallen by the wayside that will never see the light of day because we felt so threatened that someone has a better way of doing things. Even now, we still assume the very same narcissistic philosophy; reject all innovation and advances from our own nation (and advances from other nations), but take all the credit for anything that an Aussie invented when it gets taken to, and ultimately becomes historically successful overseas. This is all in spite of the fact that these inventions threatened to advance or change "the way we've always done it" even when "the way we've always done it" is extremely uneconomical, or doesn't even work at all! We simply cannot tolerate any form of change that may advance us because we are suspicious of change, and improvement or idea is seen as "You're putting yourself above the rest of us! How dare you think you're better than us? The nerve to show you have a better way of doing things than we have done for the last 50 years". We were apathetic to integration of computers and technology here, and yet those very same people who rejected the concepts of technology are now the ones using Netflix every night, learn new things via documentaries on youtube, buying things they've always wanted on ebay. I have to teach them how to use a keyboard every single day because they so vehemently abhorred something that was very clearly innovative, and couldn't accept the reality that the rest of the world is moving ahead, and it's coming here whether they like it or not. Australia is getting more amazing by the day! Wonder what we'll come up with in the next 50-100 years and if it'll be accepted here or will have to go foreign?
Well said Mate......l voting to put Aust first at these elections - bugger the two major parties and their SJW.....lm sure Clive Palmer could do any worse
Many businesses are very risk adverse and won’t invest in innovation so they go to the US. The US with it’s very large population can take more risks. I bet if an Australian invented teleportation, would have difficulty in having it adopted but will import it from the US.
That black box is The same colour as the San Francsco bridge and the Gantery that NASA used for the Apollo Moon shots ' International Orange' - SB British Isles
Welcome to Australia a land of knocking down the Tall Poppy or anyone with a half decent idea. To those that succeeded, Hats off to you! If only we gave Aussies a go and were more patriotic like the Yanks.
It's the govt. not wanting to back a home grown product in a country with a small population and small financial consumer base return. The 'Tall Poopy Syndrome' is not about Aussies knocking a successful person. It's about those successful types that believe they are way above normal standards of appreciation, reward and respect and expect to be lauded constantly with applause, prizes and worship as though they're above the undeserving crowd. Aussies hate a 'Show Pony' . Good on you if you achieve something good and worthwhile but don't 'bang a tin about it', you're not as endlessly bloody fascinating as you think you are. It wears damn thin pretty quick.
@@chookinathunderstorm3446 Spot on @Chook inAThunderstorm. Good summary, removes the inane commentary about how Australia did it better. "Tall poppy syndrome" = making excuses for the fact these findings did not, in fact, take over the world. Insecurity at its best. It's a very lazy criticism! As soon as you mutter it you've outed yourself as a person bitter about the fact your idea came from somewhere else. Great ideas are all over, including outside Australia, not that the 'tall poppy' brigade could consider this.
When I was a kid, in the 50's, we had an electric mower. My dad wouldn't let me use it----something about running over the cord and getting electrocuted....
Vic Hayes the "Father of Wi-Fi", a Dutchman, would probably be surprised to learn this. A team of Australian's did invent a better chip that helped make the Wi-Fi we know now as possible, but they didn't invent Wi-Fi. 😁
@@flyingdutchman6984 Um.. Nor did he. He started work on this in 1974. The first wireless network ALOHAnet was up and running in 1971. What CSIRO did was make it work better and patent it.
Australia's inventions that saved the world, Hills hoist and Victa lawn mover. How many times have I heard these mentioned as Australia's donation to the world. How many years ago and many still talk about it.
If I am right Australia made the worlds first full length feature film, made by the Salvation Army called "The soldiers of the Cross". made in South Australia.
Black Prince, I think you are correct and we also were producing more films than HOLLYWOOD in the early years of this industry. Well guess who picked up the ball. John, Australia.
As a young boy i was on the Port Lincoln that took the first outside TV broadcasting unit to Melbourn in (I think it was 1955 or 6 I believe it went to St Kilder.
So Australia laughed at or rejected most of these inventions, only for them to be picked up in other countries. That actually sums up Australia perfectly.
that is very cynical and negative - Australia is the best place in the world and I'm from overseas - stop putting shit on your country - we've invented plenty but there are people that just whine about everything.(you're probably a pom)
Thanks for an amazing video of Aussie ingenuity. Sadly, due to bureaucracy and red tape some of them had to go overseas to flourish. Nonetheless, very proudly Australian.
The gas powered lawn mower was not invented in Australia . As I know of that Gravely made mowers before 1952 . Victor did not used it's own engine by the mid 60 . They used an US made engines .
The idea was the rotary lawnmower. The first engine powered mowers were British. The first Victas had Villiers engines. Victa was not first to make a rotary mower, but made the first successful one. There are various brand motors you can buy Victas with: Victa 2 stroke, Honda, Briggs& Stratton that I know of. As of 2008 Briggs& Stratton bought Victa out but are still made in Australia.
I think the Germans were using a type of flight data recorder in the second world war and it was a German miniature tape recorder that caught the attention of the Australians.
Hills Hoist wasn't the first. There was a rotary clothes line before the Hills. My ex-mother inlaw had one and even had Ray Martin go and interview her
Reading through the comments, it's like listening to the stories at the local pub after a few. 🍻 Lots of missed opportunities and boasts of success. 😃 Good to give due credit where it's deserved. 👍
My grandfather invented the Jet Pump to pump water from the bottom of goldmining concerns during the 1920’s. But he failed to patent it and sold his plans.
This must have been recorded in the 80s, Ray Martin, the host still looks pretty young. They also never mentioned the invention of Wi-Fi which was another Australian invention in 1991, but it might also be in the early 90's as in fairness, Wi-Fi wasn't introduced to the public until 1997.
PS - Top of my bucket list is a trip to Australia. After working since I was 14 yrs old , HOW DO I GET TO AUSTRALIA ? What is the cheapest way , At 66 and perfect health it is just a dream I've had since childhood . Time is running out , any suggestions ? Thanks for a entertaining video . Suggestions ?
Yes - if you are as you sound an American, just get to your west coast, and head west south west. Swimming would be cheapest but could take forever-so maybe just fly. I'll pick you up at Sydney airport we can take it from there. 😂
Its now mid 2024 ,i'm a 58 year old male and this is the first ever of hearing about Sr Kennedy. Disgraceful Australia , im very ashamed. Sr Kennedy should be a household name like a bushranger .
In the history of the United States, only two foreigners have been given unrestricted entry into the US. Jean Lafayette and Sister Elizabeth Kenney. This failed to mention that she was a self-taught nurse. The neat packages and bunches of bananas in supermarkets are a result of the 1950s polio epidemic. Until he 1950s bananas came to the markets on the stalk. You just broke off what you wanted to buy. Some children had eaten bananas just before getting sick. It was thought that a spider or insect could have been hidden in the stalk and bit the children, causing polio. So laws were passed that bananas be removed from the stalk and washed before being sent to the markets. The magician Houdini was the first person to fly an airplane in Australia and wanted to be remembered for that.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS, FRCP was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.
Good VIdeo ! Small inventors almost never get a fair shake, with manipulators taking the lions share or all of the profit from amazing inventions/innovations.
Actually, this vid shows how a successful thing is an idea-person and an executor person, and they are often different people. - a good mower needs a good engine, so in many ways the two stroke engine the guy built did invent the rotary mower. (Because it worked well)
Marmite, the original horrible salty paste; first made in 1902. Aussies didn't get round to bringing out their "me to" version of this disgusting almost-food product until 1923.
This film is trying to re-write history. THE ULTRA SOUND: The history of sonography in Obstetrics and Gynaecology dates from the classic 1958 Lancet paper of Ian Donald and his team from Glasgow PENICILLIN: it was not until 1928 that penicillin, the first true antibiotic, was discovered by Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Plus boot polish and the name of an inventor that wasn't even born in Australia. You are truly grasping at straws.
In 1963 at age 9, I invented a 3 wheel billy cart -perfect design so I thought-fixed wheel at front 2 wheels at rear steered via a rope....during test run ran over my kelpie hit a brick wall and well...I retired another Aussie victim of global resentment. 🤣
Some of this is incorrect perhaps this county helped or had a hand in some of this but Fleming discovered penicillin by accident and nickola tesla had pattens on wi fi 100 years ago. And in 1902 a English company came up with the law mower where was the research for this film not being mean just saying so I can say I invented the wheel then that was right after I invented the first time machine to go back and invent the wheel. 😂
If you're here from the video that's called "THIS CRAZY GUY THINKS AUSTRALIA IS FAKE" or if you are just a person that are in denial that Australia invented these, IN YOUR FACE!!! EDITED: Also look up what else us Aussies has made.
Yes it is. Dual Rugby Union & Rugby League International, Commonwealth Games athlete and NSW state politician. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cleary_(rugby)
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Yes I remember reading something he was finally diaganosed circa 1921 20 years before the U.S entered WW2. But Later the medical profession said they didn't pick up complaints such as wobbling and the lack of standing in place for a long time. Something else was also later stated as they did not know about auto immune illnesses as they did later. FDR apparently had many issues when growing up such as urinating due to poor bladder control etc. So when did it all begin, know one really knows.
Mr Charles Bliss was a remarkable man. After all he went through and still wore himself out to give the disabled a voice. God bless all those folk who help unfortunate kids.
When l was a kid in the 60’s l would just like to thank Victa for the opportunity to have a mini bike! Me & my mates got hold of Victa 125 cc engines and modified push bike frames to take pneumatic tyres on wheelbarrow wheels with a sprocket welded to it, no gearbox or anything just a straight drive chain driven & this was before you could buy a mini bike unless you got a paratroopers bike things from the army disposals, geez we had fun flying around the neighbourhood!
My neighbour did so too - I spent my youth in the 70s riding up and down the street on a home-made bike/scooter powered by a Victa!!!
Hahaahhahahahaa, love.
Absolutely genius!!! I loved the joy of Charles Bliss it made me just smile and laugh in wonder. People should look back sometimes and see the past as it really was, Incredible!
The first time ultrasound was used for clinical reasons was in 1956. It was used in Glasgow by a Scottish Obstetrician named Ian Donald and an engineer named Tom Brown. These two men developed the first prototype system for ultrasound, but it wasn’t perfected until the end of the 1950s.
Cor. That was really interesting. Well done cuzzies. Number 8 wire mentality and all that. I knew a lot of these were Australian but, some l'd never heard of. Actually read a great book called; The Mold in Dr Florey's Coat - on the story of the discovery of and urgent wartime need for penicillin and the lengths they took to keep it from possibly falling into the wrong hands- hence the title. Am fairly certain they never mentioned Dr Florey was Australian though - probably just called him British and had done with it. Hill's Hoists were/are the best clotheslines ever - nothing beat them for drying ability. Many happy memories of my brother and me flying around on one as kids and many not quite so happy memories of getting our ar$es tanned when we got caught. 😊
An interesting collection of ideas put together in a very watchable documentary. The story of Charles Bliss and his 7,000 letters about his invented sign language to institutions around the world and Sister Kenny and her Polio work were two specials tales of strife and frustration.
It is not really a sign language, which is usually defined to be gestures/shapes formed using the hands.
It is just another version of hieroglyphics or an Oriental written language.
I remember the hills clothes line. I used to swing of it when my brother would crank it up . It almost looked like me the kid climbing up the clothes line in this . That way a long lost memory brought back .
what about James Harrison, whose technological advances in mechanical refrigeration meant our ancestors could get cold beer.
While people had been using iceboxes to keep stuff cold for thousands of years before James Harrison was even conceived, the Scottish-born Australian was the first to invent and patent a mechanical system to create ice for refrigeration. In 1854, Harrison created a commercial ice-making machine in Geelong, which he then expanded to create a vapour-compression refrigeration system, which he was awarded a patent for in 1855.
What made this refrigeration system unique was the use of a compressor to force vapourised ether into a condenser for cooling, where it turned back into liquid. This liquid then made its way through the the refrigeration coils and turned back into gas, which cooled down the insides of the system. According to Wikipedia, the machine used a 5 metre flywheel and could produce 3000kg of ice a day.
Harrison continued his innovations in refrigeration, jumping between it and his career as a journalist and editor at The Age. He was one of the pioneers allowing for meat to be shipped between Britain and Australia, although is first experiment was an unmitigated failure thanks to a lack of ice to keep the meat cold enough.
Harrison's method of refrigeration is still used by fridges today, although the process has been refined significantly and ether is no longer the gas of choice. But what makes his invention especially brilliant and signifies Aussie ingenuity is that the first company to use his system was a Bendigo-based brewery, Glasgow & Co. That's right - an Aussie invented the fridge and it's first real use was making beer. You have to love this country...
Thank you very much for this as I had been led to believe that it was Carrier that had invented the first method of mechanical refrigeration. Good to know for future discussions with at least one person I know whom told me that as well as makes me proud to be an Australian even more so now.
Cheers from John, NSW.
So it Seems.
yeah but who invented the barbie eh? or corks on the hat rim
SHANE'O hi Shanehom. This is only a part of the documentaries. There is more to come. Calm down mate 🙂JPL NASA. When I was there One scientist told me the biggest exports for medication.
He said “ and I can guarantee you that no Australians even know that” I said “ I did know as it was on 60 minutes one night.
I think a greatest invention is the WINE bladder in the box because it was easy to put it in your bag and go to the club/Disco and every time the carafe was nearly empty, we’d refill it and put the bladder back in our bags LOL 😝
How I miss those days... 😩🥴🤢🤮 That’s why I’m a Discoqueen 👸🏼 As I still love my disco music.
there are other videos that cover other inventions.
John Monash, the father of modern warfare revolutionized the infantry charge by synchronizing shock & awe tactics , tank support and aerial resupply on the western front during WW2, techniques still used today.
@Big Bill O'Reilly You got THAT right, he was completely ignoring the tanks of WWI and massed charges of the Zuly half a century before. Damn! forgot the Romans of 2000 years ago!!!
@@bobpackard9527 Actually it was first used in a co-ordinated attack at the battle of le Hamel, by Australian Troops during WW1. This was a co-ordinated attack using aircraft, artillery, tanks and Infantry, who had been made to study maps and sand models of the terrain and objectives for weeks prior to the attack, so that there was no confusion once the attack commenced. It was the first time all four types of attack were used in a precise co-ordinated manner. It was a complete success with the intended objectives captured within hours instead of days or weeks, at a greatly reduced loss of life. Australian troops advancing way beyond the objectives gaining more ground in a week than in the previous 2-3 years.
The Germans later employed the same tactics during WW2 when invading Europe and called it 'Blitzkrieg'.
A relatively unknown German Corporal was taken prisoner during the battle. What a shame that young Corporal was not dealt with under Rule .303 when he was first captured. His name was Adolf Hitler....
@@coolhand1964 So you think Corporal Hitler should have been shot ? Rule .303 ? You're mixing your metaphors mate. Breaker Morant was shot by the British for shooting some Boers. Adolf was a dispatch runner-received the Iron Cross....he was no coward. My grandfather shot him in the arse but they respected each other-funny that !🤫
@@reedbender1179 Your grandfather was a lousy shot then.
@@coolhand1964 I think the objectives were achieved within 50 or so minutes, 10 or so minutes quicker than Monash's prediction - I might be wrong - but it was quick.
I met the son of the production manager of hills factory, he was a piolet in the ww2 war
great. I am lecturing on Australian Inventions and this will be included. Liking the written dialogue.
Proud to be Australian 👍😀🇦🇺
As you should be, cheers from Canada!
Me too.
But it is our risk averse company culture, that prefers to invest in proven overseas ideas.
Maybe it is because of the distance to the rest of the world.
It is a smarter idea to invest in something from Europe or US because they have the pressure cooker of massive populations to test out an idea and have the economies of scale to support the mass production and get it to market.
We are a small population removed from the rest of the world, it is a better bet to play it safe and minimise our risk exposure.
Ditto that from an Aussie expat currently in Indonesia.
Victa lawnmower..that thing powered more things than I can write here. Bloody legendary
There are many “black boxes” in aircraft... the flight recorder being 1 of them. Its a generic term for quick & easy repair of an electronic nature, via swapping out the defective 1 , with a known good unit. “Hardwired” problems would ground an aircraft for too long a timeframe (esp in wartime) until troubleshot & repaired. The expertise of repair shifted out of the elements , and further away from the warfront. The initially delicate, heavy, and large size of testing equipment is now located in a central, more stable environment... mostly air conditioned... meaning THEY need less frequent repairs as well. There ARE portable test units used on aircraft to help diagnose complicated, multiple connected devices to the faulty black box for its swap out.
The orange is used on civilian craft, of saved data boxes to help quickly locate in below water , burned wreckage type scenarios etc.
Regardless of who ran with an idea, I'm just happy that they were invented. Especially penicillin.
That was a Canadian invention.So true.
@@derekcollins1972 Are you talking about the development of penicillin here? Because, it was discovered by a Scottish physician and microbiologist Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928. An Australian pharmacologist Howard Florey led a British team of scientists to purify it and make it usable for human consumption. No Canadians however.
There's a few incorrect claims in this video, Penicillin was discovered by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928.
Florey lead a team in Oxford England to develop ways of mass producing it.
The first rotary lawn mower was built in 1933 by an English company in Berkshire, it was called the 'Rotoscythe', the Victa was very similar but not made until 1952.
Penicillin was discovered by Flemings team at St Mary's hospital Paddington England. He was head of the project but most of the work was done by English technicians in fact the mould that Penicillin was taken from was discovered by accident after it was noticed bacteria that had come into contact with moulding melon skin in a waste bin was destroyed.
@@RicTic66 Do you have a source for that?
According to F Diggins, in the article 'The true history of the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming Biomedical Scientist, March 2003, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, London'
"By 1927, Fleming had been investigating the properties of staphylococci. He was already well known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher, but his laboratory was often untidy. On 3 September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory having spent August on holiday with his family. Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory. On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci immediately surrounding the fungus had been destroyed, whereas other staphylococci colonies farther away were normal, famously remarking "That's funny". Fleming showed the contaminated culture to his former assistant Merlin Price, who reminded him, "That's how you discovered lysozyme." Fleming grew the mould in a pure culture and found that it produced a substance that killed a number of disease-causing bacteria. He identified the mould as being from the genus Penicillium, and, after some months of calling it "mould juice", named the substance it released penicillin on 7 March 1929"
Why do you have to tell us those disappointing facts? That's un-Australian
@@journeyfortwo5211 Don't spit the dummy mate, lots of bonza stuff was invented in Straya, like budgie smugglers, stubby holders, AFL, XXXX, Melboune Bitter, AC/DC not to mention the winged keel, rip the top off a cold one cobber, cheers.
@@fins59 Don't worry, I was just joking man
0:43 Aahhh Sydney Uni. You can see the jacaranda tree in the background that dies last year. It lived for 88 years.
Honorable mentions; Mark Oliphant's Flywheel Driven Concrete Synchrotron.
Unfortunately NO mention of, the Utility ( Ute )
I still have one today, basically couldn't survive in my business without it 👍👍
Not even a mention of Henry Hoke, the most amazing Australian inventor of the lot. I have even made a rope-handled hammer to his original specification, slightly modified. Plus his manual chainsaw.
Funny about that, e.g. pre-dug post holes. I used to send the boy out to dig the post holes meaning that when I turned up to put in the post the holes were already dug. Pointless nail, in fact has been used to minimise the timber splitting.
I could also have used his pizzle guard when removing belly wool if I had known about them.
Even more amazing is the fact that there is a manual chain saw made commercially and I have one, approximately 2' of an early style chain saw blade attached to two lengths of rope to be thrown over a tree branch and the ropes used to pull it back and forth. Though I must admit petrol works a lot more efficiently.
What a legend these inventors were; they didn't give up or be bullied into submission. They said "Right, I'll take it out of Australia, so that the rest of the world can appreciate it". Australia will remain in the dark because that's what it wants. Amazing to think how many amazing inventions have probably fallen by the wayside that will never see the light of day because we felt so threatened that someone has a better way of doing things.
Even now, we still assume the very same narcissistic philosophy; reject all innovation and advances from our own nation (and advances from other nations), but take all the credit for anything that an Aussie invented when it gets taken to, and ultimately becomes historically successful overseas.
This is all in spite of the fact that these inventions threatened to advance or change "the way we've always done it" even when "the way we've always done it" is extremely uneconomical, or doesn't even work at all! We simply cannot tolerate any form of change that may advance us because we are suspicious of change, and improvement or idea is seen as "You're putting yourself above the rest of us! How dare you think you're better than us? The nerve to show you have a better way of doing things than we have done for the last 50 years".
We were apathetic to integration of computers and technology here, and yet those very same people who rejected the concepts of technology are now the ones using Netflix every night, learn new things via documentaries on youtube, buying things they've always wanted on ebay. I have to teach them how to use a keyboard every single day because they so vehemently abhorred
something that was very clearly innovative, and couldn't accept the reality that the rest of the world is moving ahead, and it's coming here whether they like it or not.
Australia is getting more amazing by the day! Wonder what we'll come up with in the next 50-100 years and if it'll be accepted here or will have to go foreign?
Well said Mate......l voting to put Aust first at these elections - bugger the two major parties and their SJW.....lm sure Clive Palmer could do any worse
@@laciLaszloM me too! John. NSW.
I agree 100%. Anyone voting Liberal, Labour or Gangreens is just perpetuating this apathy.
Many businesses are very risk adverse and won’t invest in innovation so they go to the US. The US with it’s very large population can take more risks.
I bet if an Australian invented teleportation, would have difficulty in having it adopted but will import it from the US.
I like the “Delicatessen” style opening credits. Great presentation, also. 👍
We had one of those crazy New agey clothes lines in the 60’s.
This is an awesome show.
This is simply amazing, Australians at that time spoke English
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F'cking oath, mate!
This video should be sent to Scomo , it might wake up our government to start the manufacturing industries in Australia..
That black box is The same colour as the San Francsco bridge and the Gantery that NASA used for the Apollo Moon shots ' International Orange' - SB British Isles
"How not to get you to space. But at least we had a go."
I'm fucking Dying
Australia was the 3rd nation to launch a satellite successfully
Victa also made a light aircraft, the Victa Airtourer and it was a decent aircraft - 2 seats and aerobatic.
Welcome to Australia a land of knocking down the Tall Poppy or anyone with a half decent idea. To those that succeeded, Hats off to you! If only we gave Aussies a go and were more patriotic like the Yanks.
It's the govt. not wanting to back a home grown product in a country with a small population and small financial consumer base return. The 'Tall Poopy Syndrome' is not about Aussies knocking a successful person. It's about those successful types that believe they are way above normal standards of appreciation, reward and respect and expect to be lauded constantly with applause, prizes and worship as though they're above the undeserving crowd. Aussies hate a 'Show Pony' . Good on you if you achieve something good and worthwhile but don't 'bang a tin about it', you're not as endlessly bloody fascinating as you think you are. It wears damn thin pretty quick.
@@chookinathunderstorm3446 Spot on @Chook inAThunderstorm. Good summary, removes the inane commentary about how Australia did it better. "Tall poppy syndrome" = making excuses for the fact these findings did not, in fact, take over the world. Insecurity at its best. It's a very lazy criticism! As soon as you mutter it you've outed yourself as a person bitter about the fact your idea came from somewhere else. Great ideas are all over, including outside Australia, not that the 'tall poppy' brigade could consider this.
When I was a kid, in the 50's, we had an electric mower. My dad wouldn't let me use it----something about running over the cord and getting electrocuted....
This needs updating... Australian invention.. WiFi!!!
Vic Hayes the "Father of Wi-Fi", a Dutchman, would probably be surprised to learn this. A team of Australian's did invent a better chip that helped make the Wi-Fi we know now as possible, but they didn't invent Wi-Fi. 😁
@@flyingdutchman6984 Um.. Nor did he. He started work on this in 1974. The first wireless network ALOHAnet was up and running in 1971. What CSIRO did was make it work better and patent it.
@@cavman7 - I'll have to look into ALOHAnet. I'm always happy to learn something. 😁
Yifi was Nichola tesla
That ending had me almost fall off the toilet laughing.
I invented the toilet ! You're welcome ! 😎
Australia's inventions that saved the world, Hills hoist and Victa lawn mover. How many times have I heard these mentioned as Australia's donation to the world. How many years ago and many still talk about it.
Cause they're awesome inventions. Don't like it, then pissoff
Not that long ago, they were new in my lifetime. Back then it was a lawn mower not a lawn "mover", maybe you're mixing a mower up with a bobcat.
Elizabeth Kenny you LEGEND
go to show you how useless our governments were in the past. and now
And it's not going to get any better in the future if adults want to act like children and play all the time and have everything done for them
And now they are worse
This is a keeper. Well done...
Extraordinary series
If I am right Australia made the worlds first full length feature film, made by the Salvation Army called "The soldiers of the Cross".
made in South Australia.
Black Prince, I think you are correct and we also were producing more films than HOLLYWOOD in the early years of this industry. Well guess who picked up the ball.
John, Australia.
is that right!!
American and worldwide patents were granted to Wilson Greatbach, an engineer living near Buffalo, NY, for the first practical heart pacemaker.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oh, oh, oh.
Great Story Ray Martin always.
Wow I learned a lot about Australia
'He had the good sense to move to Melbourne' lol.
It standard practice for the Australian government
As a young boy i was on the Port Lincoln that took the first outside TV broadcasting unit to Melbourn in (I think it was 1955 or 6 I believe it went to St Kilder.
So Australia laughed at or rejected most of these inventions, only for them to be picked up in other countries. That actually sums up Australia perfectly.
repawnd Not Australia, just our idiot politicians and gutless millionaires.
Could be worse. U.K. invented the first programable computer and due to high security pretended it didn’t, so America claimed it :)
that is very cynical and negative - Australia is the best place in the world and I'm from overseas - stop putting shit on your country - we've invented plenty but there are people that just whine about everything.(you're probably a pom)
@@teamidris Charles Babbage invented the first programable computer, albeit an analog one
@@teamidris uhhh,dream on wanker
Thanks for an amazing video of Aussie ingenuity. Sadly, due to bureaucracy and red tape some of them had to go overseas to flourish. Nonetheless, very proudly Australian.
Boot polish is few hundred years old, Saddle soap and Dubbin wax was the first boot polish
The concrete block module being laid now in America was invented in Cairns , Australia in the late fifties. It was initially called the Besser block.
And the older I get, the heavier they get.
The gas powered lawn mower was not invented in Australia . As I know of that Gravely made mowers before 1952 . Victor did not used it's own engine by the mid 60 . They used an US made engines .
Excuse me please, but I must say, your English is not of the finest quality.
The idea was the rotary lawnmower. The first engine powered mowers were British. The first Victas had Villiers engines. Victa was not first to make a rotary mower, but made the first successful one. There are various brand motors you can buy Victas with: Victa 2 stroke, Honda, Briggs& Stratton that I know of. As of 2008 Briggs& Stratton bought Victa out but are still made in Australia.
I think the Germans were using a type of flight data recorder in the second world war and it was a German miniature tape recorder that caught the attention of the Australians.
Hills Hoist wasn't the first. There was a rotary clothes line before the Hills. My ex-mother inlaw had one and even had Ray Martin go and interview her
As explained that the Hills was an improvement.
Reading through the comments, it's like listening to the stories at the local pub after a few. 🍻
Lots of missed opportunities and boasts of success. 😃
Good to give due credit where it's deserved. 👍
Is Ray Martin's hair an Aussie invention?
Yes-Ashleigh and (Ray) Martins I think !🤣
Didn't invent propaganda, but definitely perfecting it . You forgot that you invented fire and rainbows .
My grandfather invented the Jet Pump to pump water from the bottom of goldmining concerns during the 1920’s.
But he failed to patent it and sold his plans.
good show.
It seems the more people laugh at inventions the better they are.
Thank you for this very informative and interesting video.
This must have been recorded in the 80s, Ray Martin, the host still looks pretty young. They also never mentioned the invention of Wi-Fi which was another Australian invention in 1991, but it might also be in the early 90's as in fairness, Wi-Fi wasn't introduced to the public until 1997.
PS - Top of my bucket list is a trip to Australia. After working since I was 14 yrs old , HOW DO I GET TO AUSTRALIA ? What is the cheapest way , At 66 and perfect health it is just a dream I've had since childhood . Time is running out , any suggestions ? Thanks for a entertaining video . Suggestions ?
Yes - if you are as you sound an American, just get to your west coast, and head west south west. Swimming would be cheapest but could take forever-so maybe just fly. I'll pick you up at Sydney airport we can take it from there. 😂
Its now mid 2024 ,i'm a 58 year old male and this is the first ever of hearing about Sr Kennedy. Disgraceful Australia , im very ashamed. Sr Kennedy should be a household name like a bushranger .
here in Canada we're taught that banting and best invented penicillin.
In the history of the United States, only two foreigners have been given unrestricted entry into the US. Jean Lafayette and Sister Elizabeth Kenney. This failed to mention that she was a self-taught nurse.
The neat packages and bunches of bananas in supermarkets are a result of the 1950s polio epidemic.
Until he 1950s bananas came to the markets on the stalk. You just broke off what you wanted to buy.
Some children had eaten bananas just before getting sick. It was thought that a spider or insect could have been hidden in the stalk and bit the children, causing polio. So laws were passed that bananas be removed from the stalk and washed before being sent to the markets.
The magician Houdini was the first person to fly an airplane in Australia and wanted to be remembered for that.
Wish we kept up the space work, I think Australia could of had a space industry and still can.
We do have a space industry. In many states actually. Woomera in SA was the biggest for a while.
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I'm pretty sure we didn't invent penicillan , I think that
goes to a British guy , correct me if i'm wrong
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS, FRCP was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.
Fleming discovered Penicillin by accident and published its discovery .. And the other two developed the mass production of Penicillin
I think a chap called Flemming discovered penicilin, first name Alexander, NOT Ian, he invented some kind of glue, called Bond, 007.
@@eddykelly4082 🤣
Its about time the Ozzie's blew their own trumpet.
You forgot toilets that flush clockwise.
. . . I dont think thats real , its a Joke about the Coriolis Effect , but can be Proven here on UA-cam , by the Flat Earth Society . LOL
@@sQWERTYFALIEN2011 You both gave me a good laugh with your comments then, Cheers from John, NSW.
Good VIdeo ! Small inventors almost never get a fair shake, with manipulators taking the lions share or all of the profit from amazing inventions/innovations.
Actually, this vid shows how a successful thing is an idea-person and an executor person, and they are often different people. - a good mower needs a good engine, so in many ways the two stroke engine the guy built did invent the rotary mower. (Because it worked well)
Yes we are a pretty dumb lot, flight recorder, GONE, Kambrook power board , DID NOT REGISTER THE DESIGN,GONE.
....... and percy pilcher was ahead of the lot of 'em...................
Polio, really. When did the use of DDT begin ...?
Shit.... it’s Poida. .... I mean Ray
The pace maker was a Canadian invention
Add Wi-Fi to that list.
What about wine in a box
Boot polish?
Not only the safest way, but, the funnest way!
HI
WHAT ABOUT VEGEMITE????????
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Marmite, the original horrible salty paste; first made in 1902.
Aussies didn't get round to bringing out their "me to" version of this disgusting almost-food product until 1923.
by jove, I had no bloody idea.........
This film is trying to re-write history. THE ULTRA SOUND: The history of sonography in Obstetrics and Gynaecology dates from the classic 1958 Lancet paper of Ian Donald and his team from Glasgow PENICILLIN: it was not until 1928 that penicillin, the first true antibiotic, was discovered by Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital in London. Plus boot polish and the name of an inventor that wasn't even born in Australia. You are truly grasping at straws.
Yes but we invented the straws !🤣
In 1963 at age 9, I invented a 3 wheel billy cart -perfect design so I thought-fixed wheel at front 2 wheels at rear steered via a rope....during test run ran over my kelpie hit a brick wall and well...I retired another Aussie victim of global resentment. 🤣
Pavlova
Alexander Fleming discovered penicilin
Some of this is incorrect perhaps this county helped or had a hand in some of this but Fleming discovered penicillin by accident and nickola tesla had pattens on wi fi 100 years ago. And in 1902 a English company came up with the law mower where was the research for this film not being mean just saying so I can say I invented the wheel then that was right after I invented the first time machine to go back and invent the wheel. 😂
johnnytheprick I did not need to be there to see first hand. Just do the research and come to a reasonable conclusion.
Wifi has absolutely nothing to do with Tesla's world wireless network idea.
should have mentioned that the CSIRO in Australia invented WiFi - look it up
Olivia Newton John thru Margo Robbie...Thank you Australia!
What about Anthony Michel?
Wifi.......was a good one.
I'm glad they invented skippy and kylie's chest
What chest were
A Canadian has invented the four-hole button.
Proud to be Canadian! 🇨🇦 ... 🤓
If you're here from the video that's called "THIS CRAZY GUY THINKS AUSTRALIA IS FAKE" or if you are just a person that are in denial that Australia invented these,
IN YOUR FACE!!!
EDITED: Also look up what else us Aussies has made.
Thinks Australia is fake
@ 6.28 Is that not Mike Cleary a rugby player from middle 60's ??
Yes it is. Dual Rugby Union & Rugby League International, Commonwealth Games athlete and NSW state politician. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cleary_(rugby)
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
And all of these inventions they all went overseas Australia did not back them
Charles Kingsford Smith was treated as a second class citizen by the Australian government.
Every Australian citizen is treated like a second class citizen in Australia.
@@tolkienfan4815 Only working and middle class. Government is owned by and serves the rich.
@@tolkienfan4815 ....indeed because we are too tolerant and believe in a Fair Go that has gone long ago ! Love Tolkien !👌
They forgot one more great Australian invention... The always drunk husband...
That's what happens when you get married!
Didn't the irish bet them to it?
Calling yourself "Aussies" sounds to the rest of the world like toddler talk. Cheers, mate.
Lol
yeah your right I've never like that term and I am Australian
FDR did *not* suffer from polio.
He did have polio as a child, and still suffered from it his whole life.
@@reticulan5 um, no......he developed symptoms at age 39.......much older than typical of polio.
Yes I remember reading something he was finally diaganosed circa 1921 20 years before the U.S entered WW2. But Later the medical profession said they didn't pick up complaints such as wobbling and the lack of standing in place for a long time. Something else was also later stated as they did not know about auto immune illnesses as they did later. FDR apparently had many issues when growing up such as urinating due to poor bladder control etc. So when did it all begin, know one really knows.