| 1884 |
Air Tight Tin Lid - John Eustace |
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An air tight tin lid with a lip. Although others copied the idea, he was making 100 tonnes of tin cans a year in the 1920s. |
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| 1982 |
Baeyertz Tape - Dr John Baeyertz |
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Use for accurately estimating birth dates, still used world-wide today. |
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| 1988 |
Bungy - AJ Hackett |
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The world's first commercial bungy site was opened in 1988. In June 1987 AJ bungy jumped illegally from the Eiffel Tower. |
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| 1956 |
Disposable Hypodermic Syringe - Colin Murdoch |
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A disposable, pre-filled syringe. |
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| 1900 |
Eggbeater - Ernest Godward |
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An egg-beater that could prepare eggs for a sponge cake in three and a half minutes, previously it took 15 |
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| 1944 |
Jogging - Arthur Lydiard |
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A training technique that saw his two protégés Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win gold medals on the same day at the 1960 Rome Olympics. |
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| 1953 |
Propellerless Jet Boat - William Hamilton |
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The world's first propellerless jet boat |
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| 1901 |
Spiral Hair Pin - Ernest Godward |
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This was a predecessor of the hair clip. |
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| 1919 |
Split the Atom - Sir Ernest Rutherford |
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The first in the world to in 1919. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for his efforts in radioactivity. |
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| 1970s |
Spreadable Butter - New Zealand Dairy Research Institute |
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After years of development, the New Zealand Dairy Research Institute released the worlds first spreadable butter in 1991, which was then made by New Zealand dairy co-operatives and now by Fonterra. |
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| 1950s |
Tranquilliser Gun - Colin Murdoch |
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A tranquilliser gun, also called a capture gun or dart gun, is a non-lethal gun which shoots tranquilliser darts filled with tranquilliser that, when injected, make the target animal sleep. |
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| 1972 |
Tullen Snips - John Hough |
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Scissors which could cut items as tough as one cent coins and by the 1980s more than 20 million had been made. |
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| 1884 |
Whistle in Sport - William Atack |
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The world's first referee to use a whistle to stop a game of sport. |
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| 1994 |
Zorb - Dwayne van der Sluis and Andrew Akers |
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Created the world's first Zorb, a unique adventure activity involving a giant plastic ball, a slope and speeds of up to 50 kilometres per hour. |