A More Convenient And Economical Way To Store Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage that has been popular in many cultures for centuries. Wine goes ‘bad’ when exposed to air and so many methods have been used to try to prevent air exposure including; storing in glass bottles, wooden barrels, stone jugs and even animal skins.
In 1965 Thomas Angove of Angove’s Winemakers and Distillers, of Renmark in South Australia, invented a cask with a resealable plastic spout but stopped marketing it in 1971 due to unreliability. In 1972 another Australian wine company called Penfolds improved on the design by adding a tap and placing the... (more...)
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The Wave Piercing Catamaran Was Designed To Do What Regular Catamarans Can’t: Pierce The Waves With Its Hulls.
A catamaran is a boat with two hulls, side by side. Catamarans are very stable and two slim hulls can support a wide deck with many passengers. However, in rough seas catamarans can be bumpy and tend to broach, or turn side on.
The wave-piercing catamaran is an Australian design, invented in 1984 by Philip Hercus of the Incat company. Wave-piercer hulls flow smoothly through waves instead of bouncing over them. Incat has built wave-piercer ferries that are in service around the world, as well as military variants for several navies.... (more...)
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This Invention Is Now Used On Lawns Around The World
In 1952, Mervyn Victor Richardson, a New south Wales engineering salesman, built a simple petrol driven lawn mower with spinning blades. Richardson’s mower, which he named Victa, was light, powerful and easy to use. The rotary action of the blades meant the motorized mower could cut far larger lawns than the conventional push-pull system then in use.
A Victa mower back then cost about 40 pounds at a time when most Australians earned about 30 pounds a week. Yet, so many people bought so many Victa lawnmowers that Richardson quit his job and worked full time to make mowers. By 1955 Richardson... (more...)
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Vegemite Is An Australian Icon
Vegemite was developed in 1922 by Australian food technologist, Cyril P Callister, and marketed by a Melbourne businessman, Fred Walker.
In 1923 Fred Walker purchased from Carlton and United Brewery the thick, dark, yeast paste left-over from the beer making process. He gave the paste to his chemist to see what could be done with it and from this previous waste product, ‘Vegemite’ was created.
It took some time for Vegemite to gain popularity. Walker promoted Vegemite as “The Vitamin vegetable paste for use in sandwiches, soups, stews and gravies…full of vitamins…” Vegemite’s... (more...)
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The Aussie Ute Has Great Storage Space And Was A Popular Get Away Car!
In 1932 there were half a million motor vehicles in Australia. Most of these were passenger cars with rest mostly trucks. Australian farmers were changing their horses and carts for cars. Some farmers cut the back off a passenger sedan and fitted a table top making a useful vehicle that carried goods and people and the ‘ute’ was born. They could cart produce around during the week and take the farmer and his wife to church or the cinema on weekends.
In 1934 the Ford company produced their first utility vehicle. These vehicles had a comfortable cab with a useful... (more...)
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The development of the wheat stripper was one of the most important agricultural advancements in early Australia
For thousands of years wheat was harvested by sickles and other tools. Dozens of workers all had to be on the one field at the same time because this was a slow, hard job for each of the workers.
Wheat crops grew well in South Australia and in 1843 they grew too tall and combined with a general lack of labor made it very difficult to harvest and meet the current demand. A competition was started for the best design for a machine that could cut wheat faster than cutting by hand.
Nobody won this competition but there was a lot of interest... (more...)
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The Ballerina that inspired a desert that has become a
National Dish in both Australia and New Zealand.
Most Australians know Pavlova as the sweet dessert made with a base of meringue crust, topped with whipped cream and fresh fruits. The dessert was actually named after Anna Pavlova, a famous Russian ballerina.
Anna Pavlova was born in 1881 in Russia and entered the Imperial Ballet School at ten. She worked very hard there and on graduation began to perform at the Maryinsky Theatre, debuting on September 19, 1899. In 1914 she was traveling through Germany on her way to England when war broke out. She was not able to return to Russia and soon... (more...)
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How the simple sponge cake accidentally became one of Australia’s most popular cakes.
The first settlers liked to cook large slabs of cake to feed their big families, but the lack of refrigeration and adequate preservatives meant these cakes quickly went stale. Rather than waste the stale cake it was cut into cubes with a jam filling in the centre and coated in chocolate and then rolled in grated coconut. So the original Lamington cake was actually made to disguise stale cake.
Recipes for the Lamington started appearing in cook books in the early 20th century and it soon became one of Australia’s most popular cakes. So popular that... (more...)
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This Invention Has Made Waterlogged Pitches And Greens A Thing Of The Past.
In 1974 while playing a game of golf, Gordan Withnall came up with the idea of the supersopper. When Withnall’s ball fell into a puddle, a mate challenged him to invent a machine to get rid of puddles. Within a week Withnall had invented the Supersopper. The machine consisted of a large perforated cylinder covered by a soaking sponge, a smaller cylinder squeezed out the water into a tank inside the roller. The Supersopper could be pushed by hand and was useful for tennis courts or golf greens.
In 1979 the Supersopper really took off when the Melbourne Cricket Ground... (more...)
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The Stump Jump Plough A Major
Contribution To The Success Of Australian Agricultural Development.
The early Australian Pioneers brought with them their knowledge and experience from centuries of agriculture in England and Europe. Many of the practices that worked in the rich and fertile lands of the old country were not suitable to the harsh and barren Australian landscape.
This was the case with the task of clearing land in preparation for cultivation. The English manner was to deep plough with completely turned furrows. This was required to kill the weeds that grew furiously in the rich and damp European climate. This practice was not at all... (more...)
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