Proud to be Australian

Posted at dfa a while ago i thought i'd pst it here.
And thanks to Ronbo for some of this list.

Mel Gibson is Australian
Russell Crowe is Australian
Nicole Kidman is Australian
Fosters Beer is Australian
The word Mate is Australian
Movie Director Scott Hicks is Australian
Eric Bana is Australian (the delta guy inBlack Hawk Down)
The "BlackBox" Flight Data Recorder is an Australian invention
The Lawn Mower was invented in Australia
Electric Drill is an Australian Invention
Inflatable Aircraft Escape Slide is an Australian Invention
Penicillian
Race Cam (360 degree camera you see in race cars) is an Australian Invention
the heart pacemaker is an Australian Invention

Democratic Firsts

First place in the world to have a secret ballot in elections (1856)
First Place in the world to give women the vote. (1894)

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Legal Firsts
Torrens Title. An Australian invented the worlds first method of land registration. Now in use by many countries around the world.

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Sporting Firsts
First country in the world to beat America in it America's cup.
Only country to have attended every modern Olympic games.
The first country to employ skiing as a sport. (1863)
The Australian crawl. Until the 1890's competetive freestyle was done with the head out of the water. (Remember how Tarzan used to swim in the movies?) Australian #### Cavill popularised it and enabled it to be accepted in world class meetings.

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Inventions
The bionic ear, a device that enables some deaf children to hear.
Flexible wine casks... the bag in the box.
The boomerang. Ancient weapon of the aboriginies. Other cultures have throwing sticks but none came back to the thrower if it missed the target.
The Notepad. In the whole history of paper, it had been sold and used in single sheets until in 1902 JA Birchall thought it would be a good idea to stack a pile of half sheets together, back it with cardboard and glue one end.
Making the world's first notepad.
Xerox photocopying process was the result opf research by Prof O U Vonwiller from the University of Sydney published in 1907.
The Electric Drill was the invention of Arthur James Arnot, who patented it in 1889.
Postage stamps. The world's first pre paid postage system was introduced at Sydney in 1838.
The worls first refrigeration plant was an Australian invention of 1858.
To our collective shame, the worlds first bathing beauty contest was held in Australia in 1920.
The famous "black box" flight recorder for recording aeroplane movements was invented in Australia in 1958.
Also in 1958 the worlds first regular 'round the world' airline service was begun.
The inflatable aircraft escape slide, which becomes a raft if the aeroplane ditches in water was an Australian invention of 1965.
The Automatic letter sorting machine - 1930
Two stroke lawn mower.
The rotary hoist washing line.
Lithium as a treatment for manic depression.
Latex gloves 1945

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Military firsts
The underwater torpedo, Louis Brennan 1874
The tank (1912 - Lance de Mole)
Paper machine gun belt - dramatically reduced gun jamming while firing.

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Biggest
The largest Island in the world.
The flagpole at Parliament house in Canberra is the largest aluminium object in the world.
Sydney Tower is the highest building in the southern hemisphere.
Kalgoorlie in WA is the worlds largest electorate 2,255,278 sq km
The Australian Labor Party is the oldest surviving labor party in the world. (1891)
The worlds largest cattle property is Strangeray Springs in S.A. over 30,000 sq km

And the thing i'm most proud of. The CEO of Coca-Cola is Australian!

Part 2.
Champ Car Driver Scott Dixon was born in Aus
Champ car team owners Barry and Kim Greene are aussies
DAVID HILL: Chairman and CEO of Fox Sports Television Group
The new gun that can shoot 1million bullets a second was invented by a greengrocer in AUS.

[MrB50]

At least its legal to own guns in America, lol just kidding man.

Where I live, is a small town nearby called Mendota, CA. Its the cantelope melon capitol of the world. lol and Selma, CA. is the raisin capitol of the world too. So, you see, we all have something to brag about. LOL

At least its legal to own guns in America, lol just kidding man.

It's legal to own guns here to if you know what your'e doing the government just want's to know who has what. I'd say more but i'm worried about starting an argument cause of the clash of mentalities of Aussies and Yanks.

is the raisin capitol of the world too

sorry we have that to, cause of all the wine growers we produce something like 85% of the world's rasins

[DeDRAGE]

The invention of the personal computer is having an effect on our lives equal to, if not greater than, that of the electric light bulb, telegraph, and telephone. The Altair was the most popular early personal computer. It was programmed by flipping switches on the front panel. Its output was simply a pattern of lights. Communications, word processing, and other applications required additional components.

[DeDRAGE]

Noteing none of this would have been possible without the fine american inventions.

[Steve]

Originally posted by DeDRAGE
The invention of the personal computer is having an effect on our lives equal to, if not greater than, that of the electric light bulb, telegraph, and telephone. The Altair was the most popular early personal computer. It was programmed by flipping switches on the front panel. Its output was simply a pattern of lights. Communications, word processing, and other applications required additional components.

IMO seeing in the dark [with light bulbs] is a waaaaaaaaay bigger thing than a personal computer. oh did i mention the British invented the lightbulb hehe

[Steve]

come on u must have expected some retaliation


inventions

Date Invention Or Discovery Inventor Or Discoverer
1250 - Magnifying glass - Roger Bacon
1668 - Reflecting telescope - Isaac Newton

1698 - Steam pump - Thomas Savery
1701 - Seed drill - Jethro Tull
1712 - Steam engine - Thomas Newcomen
1717 - Diving bell - Edmund Halley
1725 - Stereotyping - William Ged
1758 - Achromatic lens - John Dollond
1759 - Marine chronometer - John Harrison

1764 - Spinning jenny - James Hargreaves
1769 - Spinning frame - R. Arkwright
1769 - Steam engine (with separate condenser) - James Watt

1780 - Steel pen - Samuel Harrison
1784 - Threshing machine - Andrew Meikle
1785 - Power loom - Edmund Cartwright
1788 - Flyball governor - James Watt

1791 - Gas turbine - John Barber
1792 - Illuminating gas - William Murdock
1795 - Hydraulic press - Joseph Bramah
1796 - Smallpox vaccination - Edward Jenner
1804 - Solid-fuel rocket - William Congreve
1804 - Steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick

1814 - Railroad locomotive - George Stephenson

1815 - Safety lamp - Sir Humphry Davy

1820's - Difference Engine (Computer) - Charles Babbage

1820 - Hygrometer - J.F. Daniell
1821 - Electric motor - Michael Faraday

1823 - Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
1824 - Portland cement - Joseph Aspdin
1827 - Friction match - John Walker
1831 - Dynamo - Michael Faraday

1837 - Telegraph - Sir Charles Wheatstone
1839 - Photography - William Henry Fox Talbot
1839 - Steam hammer - James Nasmyth
1839 - Bicycle (with pedals) - Kirkpatrick MacMillan
1850 - Mercerized cotton - John Mercer
1855 - Hypodermic syringe - Alexander Wood
1856 - Bessemer converter (steel) - Sir Henry Bessemer
1861 - Electric furnace - Wilhelm Siemens
1865 - Antiseptic surgery - Joseph Lister
1876 - Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
1878 - Cathode ray tube - Sir William Crookes
1879 - Incandescent filament lamp - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
1884 - Steam turbine - Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
1884 - Multiple-wheel steam turbine - Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
1887 - Air-inflated rubber tire - J.B. Dunlop
1891 - Motion picture camera (kinetograph) - William K. L. Dickson
1891 - Motion picture viewer (kinetoscope) - William K. L. Dickson
1891 - Synthetic rubber - Sir William Augustus Tilden
1892 - Rayon (viscose) - Charles Frederick Cross
1892 - Vacuum bottle (Dewar flask) - Sir James Dewar
1895 - Rayon (acetate) - Charles Frederick Cross
1905 - Diode rectifier tube (radio) - Sir John Ambrose Fleming
1908 - Two-color motion picture camera - C. Albert Smith
1919 - Mass spectrograph - Sir Francis William Aston
1926 - Television - John Logie Baird

1928 - Penicillin - Sir Alexander Fleming

1930 - Modern gas-turbine engine - Sir Frank Whittle

1935 - Radiolocator (radar) - Sir Robert Watson-Watt
1941 - Turbojet aircraft engine - Sir Frank Whittle

1947 - Holography - Dennis Gabon
1956 - Hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell

1975 - CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner - Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1996 - Clockwork Radio - Trevor Baylis

Ejector Seat - Sir James Martin


Sports

Association Football
Badminton
Bobsleigh
Bowls
Boxing
Canoeing
Cricket
Croquet
Curling
Darts
Fives
Golf
Hockey
Hurling
Ice Skating
Mountaineering
Rackets
Rowing
Rugby
Skiing
Squash
Table Tennis
Tennis
Tenpin Bowling – 9 pin bowling was German
Trotting
Water Polo
Water Skiing
Weightlifting
Yachting


British Commonwealth

From Africa to Asia, from Pacific shores to the Caribbean, the British Commonwealth's 1.7 billion people make up 30% of the world's population.

currently includes

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
Cameroon
Canada
Cyprus
Dominica
Fiji Islands
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Swaziland
The Bahamas
The Gambia
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zimbabwe


the English Language

spoken worldwide by a large and ever-increasing number - 800 million by a conservative estimate, 1.5 Billion by a liberal estimate.
Some 350 million use the language as a mother tongue
A further 400 million use it as a second language
It has official status in over 60 countries
Estimates also suggest that at least 150 million people use English fluently as a foreign language

English is also the language of
international air traffic control,
and the chief language of world publishing,
science and technology,
conferencing,
and computer storage

Countries that Speak English

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Montserrat, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts & Nevis Anguilla, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Virgin Islands (USA), Zambia, Zimbabwe

yes but look at the poeulation difference and the timeframe between the 2.

[MrB50]

Wasn't Australia colonized by the British as a Prison Island??? Hmmmm, go figure. No, I'm not flaming or bashing your country....but we all have our pride for our respective countries. The US has done alot of good things, that of which I haven't the time nor the need to research them. So....oh yeah, about the raisin thing...read this....

Called the father of the wine industry, Frances Eisen started the raisin industry when he accidentally let some grapes dry on the vine before he was able to harvest them. Today, nearby Selma is the world’s top producer of raisins, giving it the distinction of "Raisin Capitol of the World." Fresno County is the nation’s leading agricultural region, producing more than 250 different commercial crops worth $3 billion dollars per year.

So you see, however frivilous it may be, every country has its plus sides.

( Oh yeah, Fosters Beer is the worst beer I have ever had in any country I have ever been too. LOL J/K )

[-cf-]

I'm proud to be american but you don't see me bragging now do you

[Steve]

now thats 2 americans who have posted and have not bragged... makes u wonder

[katana*GFR*]

Quote from SB:
the English Language

spoken worldwide by a large and ever-increasing number - 800 million by a conservative estimate, 1.5 Billion by a liberal estimate.
Some 350 million use the language as a mother tongue
A further 400 million use it as a second language
It has official status in over 60 countries
Estimates also suggest that at least 150 million people use English fluently as a foreign language

English is also the language of
international air traffic control,
and the chief language of world publishing,
science and technology,
conferencing,
and computer storage
end Quote.

But why didnt you tell them you guys won the voting for world language by cheating? there was only 1 vote difference between the fine Dutch and the rude English language. lmao.
If those jack-tars wouldnt have cheated Dutch would be the world language.

[DeDRAGE]

Im honestly not in the mood to do a bunch of homework. Im just too damn lazy. But the automobile was invented here and without that you would still be on your bikes. LMAO. Ok i wont be bragging anymore cause dont want to surf for any more info I dont know.

hey i'm even going to take credit fo the nuke, sir mark oliphant discovered new forms of Hydrogen and Helium and was on the team who made the first nuke.

Polymer Banknotes
EXELGRAM anti-counterfeiting technology
The Owen Sub Machine Gun

[Steve]

well ur all still speaking English

pwn4ge


lol i like this thread, gj BB

yes but i believe there is alot of difference between Aussie English and English English and American English. It's not like we understand any of the accents anyway.

[MrB50]

you guys drive on the wrong side of the road. lol My grandmother was on the first team to build the first atom bomb dropped on Japan. The plant was in Oak Ridge Tennessee. She ran the super computer(if you want to call it that) that controled the machines that made the fuses for it. She has proof of that too. They didnt tell them what they were making at the time, just that it would change the war and the world.
You say penicillian was invented by an Aussie and Stevie by a englishmen....Stevie is partly right, his name was Sir Alexander Fleming, but he was a scotsmen.
Chances are that the computer you use had a processor that was designed and produced by Americans....Both Intel and AMD are American Companies....

i didn't mean for this to become a debate but anyway.

My grandmother was on the first team to build the first atom bomb dropped on Japan

Oliphant was the leader of the team that made the very first bomb, not the one that was dropeed on japan.

Youre right but the penicillian it was invented by englishman as a vay to stop bacteria spreading, but the aussie found out that it could kill bacteria not just surround it.

and the CEO of Coca Cola might be Australian...but where does he live???

On the banks of the Sydney Harbour

Ahh but i'd bet that the metal used to make the chips is form aus.

And for any cricketers here: Sir Donald Bradman was aussie. (for the yanks here bradman was the best cricketer that ever lived with a batting average of 99.94, the standard these days is 40)

EDIT: We make the cars, we decide what side of the road is right lol

[DevilDog#1]

We got more nukes! Wanna play chicken?