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Had to google Stobie pole - I've driven around Adelaide heaps but never noticed the unique power pole infrastructure
![]() As far as 'Fritz' my googling indicates it looks like Mortadella - mortadella haunts me from my childhood much like polenta ![]() Was there a shortage of wood in SA? Walking around North Adelaide, all the fences and older houses looks like stone construction. Last edited by Franco Cozzo; 20-03-2021 at 12:39 PM. |
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The 'Black Box' flight data recorder.
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Its because as free settlers we could afford to build with stone unlike our eastern states convict folk who opted for the cheaper options.
Adelaide has a hot dry climate, pre A/C stone was used as climate control, these stone homes will have half a dozen fire places, certainly no wood shortages. |
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WTF are you talking about. Stone houses are everywhere up and down the Eastcoast.
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Never knew the name, but those power poles were very distinct when we first drove in SA. We thought they'd run out of trees. Or no trees north of the Goyder line.
A bit like the first time driving on the Hume in NSW, and you wonder if they ran out of bitumen as the road goes 'bump bump bump' with their concrete sections. Then a highway patrol NSW XR6T goes past you at flat tack going 'bmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmp!'
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The Coolgardie Safe.
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bmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmpbmp, JJJJJJive talking.
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heritagestonemason.com/Fordlouisvillerestoration In order that the labour of centuries past may not be in vain during the centuries to come...... D. Diderot 1752
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Bit surprised on a car forum this wasn't mentioned earlier:
Racecam, first appearing in the 1979 Bathurst 1000. |
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There are very few timber clad homes in Adelaide, apart from a few pockets here and there in the poorer outer suburbs. |
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Stump jump plough, designed by the Smith's on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula to enable cropping of mallee filled land, land that would become the worlds best cereal cropping belt.
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Did we invent the meat pie? That's pretty good if you ask me
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i think most of the big ticket items that really did impact the world are all covered off in the TV series that is linked in the first post.
Black box flight recorder, penicillin, pacemaker, cochlear implant etc.. here's a quick google list of 20 https://www.australiangeographic.com...ged-the-world/ Do they teach australian history in schools? I'll have to ask my kids. Many of these things are really cool to be able to say they were invented right here in Aus. I wasn't even aware of many of them myself.
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On that topic were there ever many convict settlers in Melbourne ? My understanding was that Melbourne was settled by explorers from Tasmania!! Dr Terry |
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I knew about WiFi, I've actually met one of the inventors, but I had no idea that Google maps was based on an Aussie idea. Dr Terry |
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Not sure .... the wine cask ? When you finished, you remove it from the box, blow it up and use as a pillow, before you flake out.
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Yes, should have been more specific but it was covered in the link.
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https://australianfoodtimeline.com.a...ration-system/
Doesn't get enough recognition for being a refrigeration pioneer. |
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Another one is the Bedourie Camp Oven, being spun steel, rather than Caste Iron. About 10% of the weight.
The Stockman's Poley Saddle is another.
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I was going to mention that previously, however a quick search in Wikipedia tells me it was invented much earlier by others: Quote:
If the above is correct, I wonder if it should be still considered an Aussie invention?
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Hi guys,
I have two. 1 The first one is Peter Holinger who made the gear boxs for the V8 Touring cars in the 80s and also exported those gear boxs also. 2nd. The Hills Hoist just about every back yard once had a Hills Hoist. |
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