Australia is one of only 2 countries in the World to have gone to every Olympics. Feel free to add any fact you may now, Doesn't matter what it relates to, Always interested in learning these little facts. Cheers, von_noobie =)
Australia is the BIGGEST island in the world...and the smallest Continent. Australia is the only continent to have only one country.
Australia has also invented more inventions per a capita then any of country in the world Why is it Australia only mention so far?? The rest the world afraid they dont measure up?? =)
Wiki...states following..And I'd contest a few with a little research... But I'm surprised you didn't claim the first ever steam engine and railway train. List of Australian inventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cursury glance at notepads...According to legend, Thomas W. Holley of Holyoke, Massachusetts invented the legal pad around the year 1888 when he innovated the idea to collect all the sortings, various sort of substandard paper scraps from various factories, and stitch them together in order to sell them as pads at an affordable and fair price Paper bounded together...sounds like a notepad to me. Sorry mate the old fridge is a bit spurrious as well...2 minute search brings anommolies The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748.[7] The American inventor Oliver Evans, acclaimed as the "father of refrigeration," invented the vapor-compression refrigeration machine in 1805. Heat would be removed from the environment by recycling vaporized refrigerant, where it would move through a compressor and condenser, where it would eventually revert back to a liquid form in order to repeat the refrigeration process over again. However, no such refrigeration unit was built by Evans.[8] In 1834, Jacob Perkins modified Evans' original design, building the world's first refrigerator and filing the first legal patent for refrigeration using vapor-compression.[9] John Gorrie, an American doctor from Florida, invented the first mechanical refrigeration unit in 1841, based on Evans' original invention to make ice in order to cool the air for yellow fever patients. Gorrie's mechanical refrigeration unit was issued a patent in 1851.[10] American professor Alexander C. Twining of Cleveland, Ohio patented an early vapor-compression refrigerator in 1853 that was fully capable of producing a ton of ice per day.[11] In 1856, James Harrison, an immigrant from Scotland living in Australia, developed an ice making machine using ammonia and an ether compressor
Gentlemen, I give you the origins of the great Aussie-Scots War of 2012! I smell a brand new forum in the making
That's the difficult thing about some inventions, There can be so many different forms of it that in a way many can be responsible for that invention. But it does states that he produced the first 'practical' ice making machine and refrigerator. As for any war between the Scot and Aussies, Nah we like them to much, they pissed off the English officers as much as us back in WWI xD
I'm Irish....I think we Pissed the English off more than the rest of the world put together cobber... But yep your right...Logie Baird and the Axexander Flemming are both disputed in their discoveries and inventions.
Baird has long been shown to NOT have invented television as we know it, but only to have improved on a mechanical version which had been in existence, even his own company dropped his method and adopted the Farnsworth design. Phillo Farnsworth eventually won his suit against David Sarnof, but nobody remembers it since the first public display of electronic television was made at the 1939 World's Fair at the RCA booth. Flemming sort of walked away from the penicillin for a time, since it was so hard to produce and so expensive it was impractical. Also Marconi lost his patent rights to the wireless/radio to Tesla whose patents preceded his. Sadly the decision wasn't made until both men were dead, and Marconi loosing the right to be called the "Father of the Radio" was ignored, and the lie continued on. Bell just beat Gray (I think that is the guy) to patent the telephone by an hour or so, and there is some question as to the "timing" of the acceptance stamp being put on at the patent office. Edison's light bulb was a simple improvement on the many other designs which preceded his, and was longer lasting and cheaper to produce. That said, his first light bulb wasn't sold as a single bulb since you needed the socket for it to fit in, and the cord to bring the power to the fixture. The whole kit was dam*ed expensive per light.
Actually even talking about batteries they have found a device that could have been a battery in (was either China or Iran) and this thing is about 500+ years old. Go back far enough you will find some one with a similar idea or invention, but from what i have come across the label of the inventor usually tends to be given to who ever made it work first.
I believe you are thinking of the "Baghdad Battery" which was found in what is now Iraq back in the 1930s or so. It was a pretty small device volt wise, but could have been used for "plating" metal objects possibly. The date it was attributed to was far older than 500 years, the dating is a bit troublesome but the generally accepted production was probably between 224 to 640 of the common era. Even using the youngest date that would be 1372 years ago.
New Mexico has the lowest water to land ratio of all 50 states, yet has had Native Americans living here for 20,000 years. (my own ironic spin of trivia facts) Water is .002% of the surface area. White Sands national monument is a desert not of sand but of gypsum. The Palace of the Governors(in Santa Fe the nations highest capital at 7000 ft.) was built in 1610 and is one of the oldest public buildings in America. On May 4th 2000 we had the largest forest fire(Cerro Grande fire) and again the 2011(Las Conchas fire) surpassed that record and this year we surpassed it again with the Whitewater-Baldy fire 2012. There are 7 National Forests within New Mexico(25% of our surface area) and this last large fire was in the Gila National Forest which is the largest forest. The Las Conchas fire threatened acreage around the Los Alamos labs. I would give you more but you could get indigestion.
The Americans invaded the British Cumbrian coast...That guy you formed your navy on...USN still comes every year to unfurl the colours...salute the bar they got drunk in..sorry invaded...And march smartly back in their whites down the harbour steps...To locals...saying...What was that about then.....But apparantly its part of American history? I expect an immediate response from Clint with the full details of my trivia..but Hey I'm going from memory.
I just went back into an old post I had made on a different forum, now defunct, and the Edison light bulb "kit"; one bulb, one fixture, one cord was sold as a batch at $12.00 each in 1914. Now if run through the inflation chart that kit would cost about $270.81 these days. Wonder how the "green energy bulbs cost too much" guys would think about that price? And of course this doesn't include the cost of getting electricity to your residence, this is just the stuff to make the "juice" actually light something up. No wonder only the very wealthy and places like hotels had "electric light" in their rooms. Arc light existed, but kripes that was only for streets stuff. As a funny aside, my Grandma Nora distrusted electric light. She understood gas light, candles, and kerosene lanterns and that sort of thing. She doubted that she should change a light bulb that burned out until she had a "new one" in her hand because she was certain the electricity would leak out all over the floor if a new one wasn't placed in immediately. Oh well.
Australia is the dryest continent on Earth...and people have been living here for 70 000 years...(current indigenous - 40k). We HAVE invented more things than anybody else (per capita) but instead of us being brainy (lets face it we're Irish/English stock)its instead more to do with our isolation from everyone...wich meant we either couldnt get things or couldnt afford to import them...so we are known for our ingenuity (not our spelling)...we have a problem, we looked to ourselves to fix it.
Okey dokey...........yer driest continent has rain forest too that we don't have. So just to add to your list......you get to have that over us too. I was just giving trivia, not trying to compete with Australia. We are just a state not a continent or country so forgimme. Sometimes I can't spell either.....wish I had an ancestor to blame that on but I think it was just me.
Hey Victor...sorry...its our inherant insecurity that makes us constantly compete...we always feel like the poor cousin and in the past have been treated as such...today is our day in the sun and we are making the most of it, even if we arent being particularly cool or gentlemenly about it...You have to either jump on board or just ignore us mate. : ) Oh and Australia has the LONGEST unbroken democracy in the world...Bet no one knew that (no one outdside Australia anyway)... PPS: Congrats to the Poms doing Aussies 4-Nil in the ODI...i blame that scurge 20/20!
