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Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
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Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
Hey wasn't the pacemaker invented in Oz?
OK if we'd prefer something more puerile, I'd add the Boomerang, Mad Max, cricket taunts and the classic movie phrase "THIS is a knife!"
True.
And, they've become the first country to outlaw cupholders and ashtrays in cars too....
...as they've no fucking cups and no fucking Ashes to put in them......
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Australian inventions, you cunts:
1843 – Grain stripper
1856 – Refrigerator
1858 – Australian rules football
1859 — Photolithography
1874 – Underwater torpedo
1876 – Stump jump plough
1877 – Mechanical clippers
1889 – Electric drill
1892 – Coolgardie safe
1902 – Notepad – For 500 years, paper had been supplied in loose sheets. Launceston stationer J.A. Birchall decided that it would be a good idea to cut the sheets in half, back them with cardboard and glue them together at the top. (Seriously!)
1903 – Froth flotation
1906 – Feature film - The world's first feature-length film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was a little over an hour long
1906 – Surf life-saving reel
1907 – Michell thrust block bearing
1910 – Humespun pipe-making process
1910 – Dethridge wheel
1912 – Surf ski
1912 – Tank – South Australian Lance de Mole submitted a proposal to the British War Office, for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches,' complete with extensive drawings.
1912 – Self-Propelled Rotary Hoe
1913 – Automatic totalisator
1928 – Electronic Pacemaker
1930 – Clapperboard
1938 – Polocrosse
1940 – Zinc Cream
1943 – Splayd – The combination of knife, fork and spoon was invented by William McArthur after seeing ladies struggle to eat at barbecues with standard cutlery from plates on their laps
1945 – Hills Hoist
1952 – Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
1953 – Solar hot water
1955 – Distance Measuring Equipment (DME)
1956 – Pneumatic broadacre air seeder
1956 – Stainless Steel Braces
1957 – Flame ionisation detector
1958 – Black box flight recorder
1960 – Plastic spectacle lenses
1961 – Ultrasound
1965 – Inflatable escape slide
1965 – Wine cask
1970 – Staysharp knife
1971 – Variable rack and pinion steering
1972 – Orbital engine
1972 – Instream analysis
1972 – Power board - Peter Talbot, working under Frank Bannigan at Kambrook, invented the power board. This allows multiple electrical devices to be powered where only a single wall socket is available.
1978 – Synroc
1979 – Digital sampler – The Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) was the first polyphonic digital sampling synthesizer. It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie in Sydney, Australia.
1979 – RaceCam
1979 – Bionic ear
Oh, I'm bored now- a few things after this stuff too...
All whilst you lot were busy losing a fucking empire!
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.