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Great Australian Inventions

<p>Essential inventions in today's world like the flight data recorder (black box), WiFi, the Hills-Hoist clothesline, the Cochlear implant and the heart pacemaker were invented by Australians. Sadly,

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$44 Limited inc GST

Great Australian Inventions

<p>Essential inventions in today's world like the flight data recorder (black box), WiFi, the Hills-Hoist clothesline, the Cochlear implant and the heart pacemaker were invented by Australians. Sadly,

...

Essential inventions in today's world like the flight data recorder (black box), WiFi, the Hills-Hoist clothesline, the Cochlear implant and the heart pacemaker were invented by Australians. Sadly, many were sold overseas, but the inventions came from here. In this lesson we look at a dozen of these inventions, and their inventors. We explore how they have changed the world.

DELIVERY MODE

  • Hybrid (Face-to-Face & Online simultaneously)

COURSE OUTLINE

  • We list and describe the inventions
  • A profile of their inventors
  • An analysis and evaluation of their contributions

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

  1. Identify the main Australian inventions
  2. Understand the factors that led to their invention

Michael Pyne

MA, MEd, PhD
Michael has been teaching history for over 40 years, from high school to university level. He has written or co-written 13 history text books including HSC texts on the Arab/Israeli conflict and...