Famous Inventors
Electric light bulb, Kinetoscope, and Phonograph are among his most famous inventions.
Thomas Edison
This invention was developed by László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, who got frustrated at all of the time he wasted filling up fountain pens and cleaning smudged pages.
Ballpoint pen (or a biro)
In 1819, French doctor Rene' Laennec invented an instrument to listen to a patient's heart and lungs.
Stethoscope
This was developed by A.J Hackett, who made a famous jump off the Eiffel Tower in 1987
Bungy Jumping
Invented dynamite, a fairly safe explosive, and donated most of his fortune to fund Prizes to honor the best work each year in the areas of literature, chemistry, physics, medicine and peace.
Alfred Nobel
In 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield invented this dessert at the Toll House Inn, by chopping up a chocolate bar and adding it to the recipe.
Chocolate chip cookie
In 1895, William Roentgen used electricity and a vaccum to form a new type of radiation that could produce an image of bones and tissue on a photographic plate.
X-ray
What did Bill Gallagher develop in the 1930s to significantly improve livestock control, eventually becoming a global standard in farming?
Electric fence
While running a school for the deaf, he and his partner, Thomas Watson, invented the telephone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
Students at Yale University made a game of gliding empty metal pie plates through the air, which led to the development of a new sport.
Frisbee
In 1788 Edward Jenner, an English doctor, perfected a system of protecting people from a fatal disease called smallpox by infecting them with a less serious disease, cowpox.
Vaccine
Aerial topdressing (dropping seeds & fertiliser using aircraft)
This Scottish engineer is known for developing an improved design for a steam engine that led to the Industrial Revolution.
James Watt
A California business man saw the need for durable pants during the Gold Rush of the 1840's. First, he used canvas, but eventually switched to denim, dyed indigo blue.
Jeans
Alexander Flemining, a Scottish researcher, discovered the first substance, peniciliin, that would kill bacteria. This led to discovering or manufacturing many more drugs that would control infections by killing bacteria.
Antibiotics
In 2015, NZ exported 30 million trays of Zespri SunGold the brand name of what kind of fruit?
Yellow Kiwifruit
He didn't invent the automobile but he did change the way automobiles were manufactured making them faster and cheaper to build.
Henry Ford
In the late 1800s it could take up to a half hour to get dressed because of all the cords, laces and rows of buttons on clothing. Even shoes were buttoned closed. It took 3 inventors and 20 years to perfect this invention first called a "hookless slide fastener"
Zipper
Wiliam Morton, a Boston doctor, is credited with the first use of this substance during surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846. His patient survived the operation, and felt no pain as he slept through it.
Anaesthetic
Timaru vet and recreational hunter Colin Murdoch invented the first of these, enabling animals to be dosed without being caught.
Tranquilliser gun/dart gun