Download or read book 101 Great Australian Inventions written by Paul Holper and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read all about the madcap Australian inventors who have influenced the world - from their invention of the world's first feature-length film to ultra-sound technology, from the detection of quasars and supernova to much, much more! Learn about indigenous and enduring Australian inventions, high-tech inventions such as Sarich orbital engine and gene technology and inventions that were snapped up by other countries, such as penicillin and Hargraves' flight designs. Read about spectacular failures such as Clement Wragge's crazy idea to create rain-bearing clouds. Take a look at what's on the drawing board, inventions that are still to make their mark and the inventions of tomorrow. This step-by-step guide to inventing will encourage readers to brainstorm their own experiments.
Download or read book Australia s Greatest Inventions written by Lynda De Lacey and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Greatest Inventions; From boomerangs to the Hills Hoist by Lynda de Lacey Australia has a reputation for innovation and inventiveness - that famous 'tie it up with fence-wire' attitude towards getting things done is one of our best-known national characteristics. Popular opinion tells us that a knack for adaptation - for jerry rigging and so-called 'bush improvisation' - is one of the qualities that marks us out as Australian. If you had to play 'spot the Australian' among other nationalities, you'd choose the ones with the duct tape and pliers in their hands. But ask your average Aussie to reel off a list of uniquely Australian inventions at a pub trivia night, and most won't get much further than the stump-jump plough, the Hills Hoist, Speedos and the pavlova. Suddenly you may find yourself wondering if we're all that inventive as a culture after all? These examples certainly don't seem to build a terribly convincing case. This book proves that for a 200-year-old culture with a relatively small population, Australians have a much richer inventive history than we give ourselves credit for. Once we've seen that this reputation for inventiveness is justified, the next question becomes; is there something in our cultural wiring, something about being Australian, that makes us more inventive than other people?
Download or read book Look at That written by Nicholas Searle and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's invention show now has a book of greatest hits! After six years on ABC tV, tHE NEW INVENtORS has featured nearly 700 amazing Australian inventions, including a re-usable coffin, a two-headed drill, a hands-free tap, a collapsible water tank, a pointy bike helmet, a bird-friendly fish hook, a double-clipping clothes peg and a sticky bowl. LOOK At tHAt! explores some of the most ingenious and surprising inventions tHE NEW INVENtORS has presented - the winners of accolades both on the show and around the world. It provides a detailed account of 50 inventions and reveals what has happened to them since they appeared on television, as well as highlighting scores of other inventions seen on the show. A treasure trove of great ideas and amazing solutions for readers aged eight to 80, LOOK At tHAt! is the perfect book for anyone interested in what Australia's best and brightest are up to in their back sheds.
Download or read book Australasian Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Technology written by Fern Byrde and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a range of Australian inventions and discoveries, focusing on science and technology. Suggested level: primary.
Download or read book Australian Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Driven by Ideas written by Clare Brown and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Bishop is a world-class international inventor, a consummate thinker and a passionate dreamer, yet few of his countrymen have ever heard his name. This biography is an account of this extraordinary man’s life and work, as well as an exploration of what it is to be an inventor.
Download or read book Home written by Cameron Macintosh and published by Heinemann Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series looks at Australian inventions and discoveries from Aboriginal technologies and practices through to key inventions and discoveries that have helped to shape our modern way of life. Each book features biographies of inventors, as well as labelled diagrams, historical and contemporary photographs and timelines.
Download or read book Health written by Cameron Macintosh and published by Heinemann Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series looks at Australian inventions and discoveries from Aboriginal technologies and practices through to key inventions and discoveries that have helped to shape our modern way of life. Each book features biographies of inventors, as well as labelled diagrams, historical and contemporary photographs and timelines.
Download or read book Terrific Topics Lower primary book 1 written by Blake Education and published by Blake Education. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a series of resources for middle primary school teachers. Provides 80 photocopiable pages with integrated units on explorers, famous Australians, myhs and legends, religions and beliefs, endangered animals, natural disasters, and moving pictures. Each unit addresses a key learning area for lower primary - either Science or SOSE/HSIE. Includes an overview of unit content and an assessment grid.
Download or read book Inventors and Inventions written by Joel Weston and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Australian inventions - Black box flight data recorder - Mechanical shearing - Orbital engine - Owen gun - Pedal wireless - Rotary lawnmower - Stump-jump plough - Sugar cane harvester - Aspro - Automatic totalisator.
Download or read book Inventive Australians written by Stephen Gard and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the TYoung Inquirers' series. This volume examines Australian inventors. Book is structured in four major sections P Australia's first inventors, the Aborigines; farming inventions; aviation inventions and inventive Australians. Text is supported by colourful and informative illustrations. Includes a glossary, bibliography, index and questions section.
Download or read book A Sign of Things to Come written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 101 Inventions that Shaped the World written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revisiting Keynes written by Lorenzo Pecchi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work, leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century. In 1931 distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” in his collection Essays in Persuasion. In the essay, he expressed optimism for the economic future despite the doldrums of the post-World War I years and the onset of the Great Depression. Keynes imagined that by 2030 the standard of living would be dramatically higher; people, liberated from want (and without the desire to consume for the sake of consumption), would work no more than fifteen hours a week, devoting the rest of their time to leisure and culture. In Revisiting Keynes, leading contemporary economists consider what Keynes got right in his essay—the rise in the standard of living, for example—and what he got wrong—such as a shortened work week and consumer satiation. In so doing, they raise challenging questions about the world economy and contemporary lifestyles in the twenty-first century. The contributors—among them, four Nobel laureates in economics—point out that although Keynes correctly predicted economic growth, he neglected the problems of distribution and inequality. Keynes overestimated the desire of people to stop working and underestimated the pleasures and rewards of work—perhaps basing his idea of “economic bliss” on the life of the English gentleman or the ideals of his Bloomsbury group friends. In Revisiting Keynes, Keynes's short essay—usually seen as a minor divertissement compared to his other more influential works—becomes the catalyst for a lively debate among some of today's top economists about economic growth, inequality, wealth, work, leisure, culture, and consumerism. Contributors William J. Baumol, Leonardo Becchetti, Gary S. Becker, Michele Boldrin, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Robert H. Frank, Richard B. Freeman, Benjamin M. Friedman, Axel Leijonhufvud, David K. Levine, Lee E. Ohanian, Edmund S. Phelps, Luis Rayo, Robert Solow, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fabrizio Zilibotti
Download or read book Wonderful Inventions written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Great Britain. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
