What are some technologies invented by New Zealand?

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Godfrey Bowen - developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique

John Britten - designer of the Britten motorcycle

Morton W. Coutts - invented the revolutionary continuous fermentation method of brewing

A J Hackett - Bungy creator

Colin Murdoch - inventor of the Disposable syringe and the Tranquiliser dart gun

Bill Hamilton - developed the modern jetboat

Peter Lynn - leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoritician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill.

Richard Pearse - outstanding early aviator/inventor

Alan Pritchard - pioneer of aerial topdressing

The Pearse brothers from NZ were the first to fly an aircraft

Pagrus

Heaps of free social welfare money for the use-less lazy trash

Abbi

Atomic energy - Ernest Rutherford

Luke L

The worlds first controlled powered aircraft was flown before the Wright brothers but lacked the media coverage back in that time therefore it has never been credited that New Zealanders were the true pioneers of flight. New Zealand also invented bungy jumping, the paper clip, and split the atom (pretty impressive for a nuclear free country)

Mark F

Bungee jumping, the water sprinkler, electric fences, the propeller less jet boat and the Navman GPS, to name a few.

Driver T

One of the first technologies to be exported from NZ was the postage stamp vending machine.
Although invented by a Chinese, the gold dredge is a NZ invention.
Nearly all the basic movement controls used on aeroplanes were invented in Temuka; very little of the technology of the Wright Brothers was of any use to flight development.
Again invented by a Chinese, the mass production of butter in dairy factories was an idea developed in Taranaki.

Answerer "CB" , please note that the 'Pearse Brothers" did not invent flight. It was Richard Pearse on his own. He ended up in a mental hospital because his neighbours regarded him as a nut case.
He live on a farm at Waitohi, just out of Temuka, and his memorial is there on the roadside.
I regard it as one of the greatest achievements of any New Zealander, but the world has never heard of him.

florida_fisher_87

New Zealand entrepreneur and daredevil AJ Hackett opened the world's first commercial bungy site in 1988. In June 1987 AJ bungy jumped illegally from the Eiffel Tower. AJ Hackett now lives in Paris.
# New Zealand brothers Davis and Andrew Akers 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.
# New Zealand farmer William Hamilton developed the world's first propellerless jet boat in 1953. He went on to invent the hay lift, an advanced air compressor, a machine to smooth ice on skating ponds and the water sprinkler amongst other things.
# New Zealand scientist Baron Ernest Rutherford was the first in the world to split the atom in 1919. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for his efforts in radioactivity.
# New Zealand referee William Atack was the world's first to use a whistle to stop a game of sport in 1884.
# New Zealand inventor Ernest Godward invented among other things, eggbeaters, burglar proof windows and the worldâ€™s first spiral hair pin.
# New Zealand running great, Arthur Lydiard invented jogging, a training technique that saw his two protÃ©gÃ©s Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win gold medals on the same day at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
# New Zealand inventor, Alan Gibbs, invented the world's first high speed sports amphibian, the Aquada.
# A computer-controlled surf reef designed by a New Zealand company has been built in the United States, fuelling dreams of turning surfing into an international stadium sport. Dr Black - a surfer, oceanographer and former Waikato University professor - led the team who designed the Versareef, which can be moulded into different shapes by computer controls.
# In New Zealand you can find an artificial surfing reef at the surf town of Mount Maunganui.
# In Wellington a proposed artificial reef at Lyall Bay is said to make Wellington a top surfing spot, by boosting good surfing days from 27 to between 118 and 142 each year.

syd

The Time Machine. When I arrived there I stepped back 40 years, amazing!!!

fresserheim

The kazoo.

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