As an Aussie I am surprised that velcro gloves didn't make the list. The fact that they are a NZ only product might be why. I have used about half of the inventions on the list :O
How about Major Harold Gillies Major Harold Gillies, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, established a centre devoted to facial repair at the Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent. Here Gillies attempted ground-breaking procedures, which paved the way for modern plastic surgery. He is widely considered to be the 'father of plastic surgery'.
- In 1989 NZ invented the concept of regular and repeated control of inflation by setting a target for the Reserve Bank and allowing the bank to independently set an OCR. Countries world-wide have adopted this practice with a few variations, including the US where the Federal Funds Rate is the equivalent of NZ's OCR and the US has employment as an additional target. - The world's first computer bureau was invented by New Zealander Leslie John Comrie in the UK. It was used in the 1920s and 1930s to provide accurate, large-scale numerical computations for scientific, engineering and commercial applications. Comrie's ideas influenced the architect of modern computers, John von Neumann. - Rocket Lab have invented many unique space technologies including the fully 3d printing of rocket engines, electric fuel pumps for rocket engines, and use of carbon fibre for the entire body of a rocket. These inventions have influenced the design of many new rockets world-wide. - In 1963 Roy Kerr created the foundational mathematics that established the theoretical existence of rotating black holes and became the first practical description of real black holes.
I flatted with Hamilton's adopted daughter, Robin, IIRC 1985. Sadly, she died from an OD. She was an amazing, eccentric, intelligent woman who looked like a brunette Deborah Harry.
New Zealand's history is literally that of punching above our weight and making stuff that everyone uses And in recognition for this we get left off the map 😞
Where the hell is Herbert James "Burt" Munro?! He was a motorcycle racer who set the world speed record for an under 1000 cc engine bikes at Bonneville salt flats back in 1968 which is still stands. He was 68 years and and won it on a 47 year old Indian bike that he had extensively modified. That bloke is a ledgend in my books! Saying G'day from your over the ditch cousins here in Oz.
My uncle invented and patented the cordless jug in the mid 1960's. None of the companies would manufacture it. They chose instead to allow kids to continue being burnt and disfigured from boiling water until the patent ran out and they could manufacture them without sharing the profits.
An often forgotten Kiwi invention (that some say was suspiciously "squashed" almost as soon as it went commercial) was Peter Witehira's 'Never-go-flat Battery' (patented in 1989). Cheers 👍
@@RB-qq1ky I think that's right, these sort of companies have a good idea and try to commercialize it and just don't make it. It might not have started out crooked but it certainly ended up a bit wiffy. Like that engine that guy was hawking around that was supposed to be almost zero emission and it never actually ran without the starter motor running in the background. Sarrachic engine?
@ Bob-h3n Hamilton Walker Rotary? Sarich was an Australian, and his engine did self-sustain and was actually real world tested in a small number of Ford Festivas, but it was stated it couldn’t meet the emission targets (although some say Ford Detroit wasn’t interested in two strokes/new technology)
Jandals? That's a bit of a stretch don't you think? It's like saying we invented ™Stubbies. Sure, they were peculiar to Aotearoa-New Zealand but they're still just shorts/trousers. The Japanese have been wearing the same style of sandal as our "jandal'. All that happened is that we figured out making them from rubber was a good adaptation.
@@Lord_Dranek I realise your comment is tongue in cheek, but the Semple vehicle is a New Zealand version of the Disston Tractor Tank, one of many light tank conversions of bulldozers popular in the 1930s and not an invention as such.
We now need to concentrate on inventing a survey ship that can climb up on reefs. Or at least competent management systems. Sorry Navy, couldnt resist.
Good informative stuff! Godward was actually English and lived predominantly in invercargill, not dunedin. He moved to the US and invented diesel engines to fit to the greyhound bus fleet
With all due respect Pearce did not fly before the wright brothers as he recorded. After he died others ‘remembered’ that he had flown first. That said his efforts were brilliant.
Ever heard of the Comrades Marathon? First run in 1921. What do reckon the runners were doing other than jogging? As do i bet the Greeks might disagree with you too!
Merv Hicks, Taranaki, 1969. Was a Modification of a massively unwieldy seppo invention called the Roto lactor. We also invented the Herringbone Shed. Ron Sharpe, Up in Gordonton in the late 50's I think. His original Herringbone shed is still standing too.
Bro, You forgot daylight savings. Entomologist George Hudson, thought it up In 1895, when he first presented the idea to the Royal Society of New Zealand, he was (rightfully) mocked. Other members of the society (correctly) deemed the proposal confusing and unnecessary. But attitudes changed, and he lived to see his brainchild adopted by many nations -- including, in 1927, NZ. He thought it'd be useful for looking for bugs after work in summer..
In a satirical letter to the editor of the Journal de Paris in 1784, Benjamin Franklin suggested that if Parisians could only wake up earlier in the summer they would economize on candle and oil usage. I might be wrong, I am only a humble Aussie, but I think this predates Mr. Huson by over 100 years.
@mesodatasystems 😁 Despite the best efforts of most US-American media companies, universities, and other institutions, The Benjamin Franklin Museum concedes that Benny DID NOT invent day light savings, they have stated that his letter was more about Parisians saving money on lamp oil. Altho that could be more to do with not wanting anything to do with such a globally reviled idea. (nor did Thomas Edison steal it)
How about that robot that can climb over an aircraft's skin to inspect it for faults? Originally invented for inspecting milk vats. Pretty clever idea.
@@portroyal6886 Malcolm Vincent? Claimed to have invented a water powered Cortina in the 1970s but using some kind of ‘hydraulic’ system rather than electrolysing water to release the Hydrogen. Allegedly died in ‘suspicious circumstances’ but police say heart attack. Or Dylan Whitford (Whanganui 1994)? ‘It’s so simple I don’t know why others haven’t thought of it’ in relation to his water fuelled engine. Attacked by unknown assailants following an anonymous phone call warning him, shortly after going public with his invention. Recovered from his injuries but subsequently left town ‘to lie low’. Then there’s Archie Blue (and his millionaire partners based in Guernsey) with his 1970s water-powered Mini. On his death in the 1990s ‘everything (plans+drawings etc) went to the tip’ according to the family.
They also invented diverse hiring practices and lost half their navy, along with the false charge, the pig headed attitude and the most intolerable accent you ever did hear.
CORRECTION: A.J. Hackett did NOT invent bungy jumping. The idea of jumping off things while attached with a rubber band was invented by David Kirke of the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club. in 1979 (and not the Vanuatu land divers), 7 years before Hackett did his first jump. For some reason AJ Hackett does not want Kirke to get credit for creating Bungee Jumping. Please update this video. You can replace it with the High Speed Dental Drill which was invented in Wellington.
Also, the invention of the ‘pea’ type sports whistle is usually attributed to Joseph Hudson in the UK in 1884 (the ‘Acme Thunderer’). Hudson was an established whistle maker for the Police, having previously developed and supplied the cylindrical whistle that is the familiar Police pattern. Atack is usually named as the first person to USE a pea whistle to referee a game
@@K1W1fly Good point, pays to check before flying into commenting I guess 🙂But I do wonder about primary sources for these types of claims, which usually feature in many TIL and ‘did you know?’ articles. I could only turn up newspaper articles reporting it as established fact.
Are you people in our (Australia's) West Islands stealing more of Australia's greatness along with Split Enz, Pavlovas and Flat Whites? Shame on you Kiwis, shame! .... 😂😂😂
I look forward to you back dating my account with my share of our great federations mineral wealth. I will start working on a decent flag , something with a quokka and some kiwi fruit?
Split Enz. Are you serious? I was hitching across the Nullarbor decades ago and the truck driver had the radio on and they mentioned the great Australian band Split Enz and he agreed. I damn near asked to be let out:)
@@colindigitaljames6619 Being a Boomer and not really au fait with emojies, but I do blelieve that the ones I inserted were to indicate it was an attempt at humour.
Not the Pearse Myth... Its not Sustained, or controlled, and probably didnt occur before 1904 at the absolute earliest, but its become a bit of a religion in NZ...
Except aotearoa never included the Sth Island and only came in to being after the English came here. Also, maori weren't the first here by far. Remember the moriori? Where\what the heck is nu tireni?
Maori have been here for about 700 years and arrived only 350 years before Tasman first sighted NZ in 1642. Earliest know maori site at Wairau Bar has been radiocarbon dated to around 1300 CE. Another way we can tell when Maori arrived is because they burnt a large percentage of NZ bushland at around that time including most of the south islands forest cover that has never recovered .
The Britten V1000 bike designed and built by John Britten?
Work of art.
Built his own engine 😂 and it's a beast.
Wonderful and innovative engineering.... I have seen it race more than once.
In 1949 a kiwi called Bill Phillips invented a water powered computer and used it to model the British economy.
It was ground breaking tech.
As an Aussie I am surprised that velcro gloves didn't make the list. The fact that they are a NZ only product might be why.
I have used about half of the inventions on the list :O
@@Alan_Hans__ Nah, We import them from Wales. 🤣🤣
How about Major Harold Gillies
Major Harold Gillies, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, established a centre devoted to facial repair at the Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, Kent. Here Gillies attempted ground-breaking procedures, which paved the way for modern plastic surgery. He is widely considered to be the 'father of plastic surgery'.
- In 1989 NZ invented the concept of regular and repeated control of inflation by setting a target for the Reserve Bank and allowing the bank to independently set an OCR. Countries world-wide have adopted this practice with a few variations, including the US where the Federal Funds Rate is the equivalent of NZ's OCR and the US has employment as an additional target.
- The world's first computer bureau was invented by New Zealander Leslie John Comrie in the UK. It was used in the 1920s and 1930s to provide accurate, large-scale numerical computations for scientific, engineering and commercial applications. Comrie's ideas influenced the architect of modern computers, John von Neumann.
- Rocket Lab have invented many unique space technologies including the fully 3d printing of rocket engines, electric fuel pumps for rocket engines, and use of carbon fibre for the entire body of a rocket. These inventions have influenced the design of many new rockets world-wide.
- In 1963 Roy Kerr created the foundational mathematics that established the theoretical existence of rotating black holes and became the first practical description of real black holes.
Jetboat, the Hamilton Jet. Oh you got me. Last one in the list.
I flatted with Hamilton's adopted daughter, Robin, IIRC 1985. Sadly, she died from an OD. She was an amazing, eccentric, intelligent woman who looked like a brunette Deborah Harry.
The round bailing system, the force-fitted tin lid (treacle tins, remember?) were both NZ inventions.
New Zealand's history is literally that of punching above our weight and making stuff that everyone uses
And in recognition for this we get left off the map 😞
The Hamilton jet for boats were invented here.
Tell us you didn't watch the video without telling us you didn't watch the video...
Where TF is here?
Bouvet Island?
Where the hell is Herbert James "Burt" Munro?! He was a motorcycle racer who set the world speed record for an under 1000 cc engine bikes at Bonneville salt flats back in 1968 which is still stands. He was 68 years and and won it on a 47 year old Indian bike that he had extensively modified. That bloke is a ledgend in my books!
Saying G'day from your over the ditch cousins here in Oz.
My uncle invented and patented the cordless jug in the mid 1960's. None of the companies would manufacture it. They chose instead to allow kids to continue being burnt and disfigured from boiling water until the patent ran out and they could manufacture them without sharing the profits.
Very interesting Allan, I certainly remember cordless jugs only really becoming a thing in the late 70’s (?)
An often forgotten Kiwi invention (that some say was suspiciously "squashed" almost as soon as it went commercial) was Peter Witehira's 'Never-go-flat Battery' (patented in 1989). Cheers 👍
You know that was a scam right?
@@Bob-h3n
We’re talking about ‘Power Beat’ batteries, right?
Yep, a scam (and the battery itself never lived up to the claims made for it)
@@RB-qq1ky
I think that's right, these sort of companies have a good idea and try to commercialize it and just don't make it.
It might not have started out crooked but it certainly ended up a bit wiffy.
Like that engine that guy was hawking around that was supposed to be almost zero emission and it never actually ran without the starter motor running in the background.
Sarrachic engine?
@ Bob-h3n
Hamilton Walker Rotary?
Sarich was an Australian, and his engine did self-sustain and was actually real world tested in a small number of Ford Festivas, but it was stated it couldn’t meet the emission targets (although some say Ford Detroit wasn’t interested in two strokes/new technology)
Frozen whole lamb/sheep bulk shipping was pioneered in New Zealand.
The Hayes Wire strainer invented here and used world wide
Save the best till last. My partner is Bill Hamilton's great-granddaughter.
The sheep rubber is my favourite
The wriggle in hair pins
Barely 200 years of history and yet more honours/achievements than the majority of peoples on Earth 🇳🇿
Trench warfare :)
Try ancient Greek and Roman warfare. Trenches have been in use as long as walls.
yeah nah bro lol
I designed an inflatable whale rescue pontoon system in the mid 80’s, that is now in use all over the world to refloat stranded whales.
Americas Cup yachts - we changed those a bit too.
Bros out here puttin us on the map!
Brilliant ❤🇳🇿 Thank you 👍
Refrigerated Shipping, William Davidson. Revolutionary continuos fermentation for brewing, Hanson.Martin Coutts. Chip Seal, Frederick Hanson. Aerial topdressing, Alan Prichard. Jandals, (flip flops), Morris Yock and son.
Jandals? That's a bit of a stretch don't you think? It's like saying we invented ™Stubbies. Sure, they were peculiar to Aotearoa-New Zealand but they're still just shorts/trousers.
The Japanese have been wearing the same style of sandal as our "jandal'. All that happened is that we figured out making them from rubber was a good adaptation.
I mean... clearly the Bob Semple is the greatest invention from NZ. Even Kill Dozer saw the potential of the armoured tractor and used a bull dozer.
@@Lord_Dranek
I realise your comment is tongue in cheek, but the Semple vehicle is a New Zealand version of the Disston Tractor Tank, one of many light tank conversions of bulldozers popular in the 1930s and not an invention as such.
Fucke yeah combat tractors😂
We now need to concentrate on inventing a survey ship that can climb up on reefs. Or at least competent management systems. Sorry Navy, couldnt resist.
@@MichaelLaw-t1c dont say that its sexist🤣🤣🤣
You forgot about the electric fence...a farming revolution. Invented by Galagher....
@KathrynLiz1
7:18
What about seismic base isolators, for making buildings earthquake resistant? Pioneered by Kiwi Dr Bill Robinson.
You missed the Britten motorcycle.
Bunjee Jumping also had roots in The Oxford University Dangerous Stunts Club..whom AJ saw tie rubber bands to ankles and jump off bridges
No one has mentioned the Trekka! chassis based on the british land rover with a Tatra( czechoslovakian ) engine axles ,electrics, et cetera.
Good informative stuff! Godward was actually English and lived predominantly in invercargill, not dunedin. He moved to the US and invented diesel engines to fit to the greyhound bus fleet
Oh, AYE! Forgot the Flat White! Even Australians admit that was one of ours!! 🤣🤣
With all due respect Pearce did not fly before the wright brothers as he recorded. After he died others ‘remembered’ that he had flown first. That said his efforts were brilliant.
Ever heard of the Comrades Marathon? First run in 1921.
What do reckon the runners were doing other than jogging?
As do i bet the Greeks might disagree with you too!
rotary milking platform
Merv Hicks, Taranaki, 1969. Was a Modification of a massively unwieldy seppo invention called the Roto lactor. We also invented the Herringbone Shed. Ron Sharpe, Up in Gordonton in the late 50's I think. His original Herringbone shed is still standing too.
Bro, You forgot daylight savings. Entomologist George Hudson, thought it up In 1895, when he first presented the idea to the Royal Society of New Zealand, he was (rightfully) mocked. Other members of the society (correctly) deemed the proposal confusing and unnecessary. But attitudes changed, and he lived to see his brainchild adopted by many nations -- including, in 1927, NZ. He thought it'd be useful for looking for bugs after work in summer..
In a satirical letter to the editor of the Journal de Paris in 1784, Benjamin Franklin suggested that if Parisians could only wake up earlier in the summer they would economize on candle and oil usage. I might be wrong, I am only a humble Aussie, but I think this predates Mr. Huson by over 100 years.
@mesodatasystems 😁 Despite the best efforts of most US-American media companies, universities, and other institutions, The Benjamin Franklin Museum concedes that Benny DID NOT invent day light savings, they have stated that his letter was more about Parisians saving money on lamp oil. Altho that could be more to do with not wanting anything to do with such a globally reviled idea. (nor did Thomas Edison steal it)
Richard Pearce inventing the aircraft is inconclusive to say the least
If Richard Pearce said he never flew before the Wright Brothers , I would tend to believe him...
As a Australian U can keep the right's to the pav it's rank
How about that robot that can climb over an aircraft's skin to inspect it for faults? Originally invented for inspecting milk vats. Pretty clever idea.
Wasn't there a dude that invented the water motor, but then had a mysterious death
Yes, there has been a fue. I went to school with a guy in the early nineties. Same fate evidently
No. Water motors are myths (Like perpetual motion machines), they defy the laws of physics.
@@portroyal6886
Malcolm Vincent? Claimed to have invented a water powered Cortina in the 1970s but using some kind of ‘hydraulic’ system rather than electrolysing water to release the Hydrogen. Allegedly died in ‘suspicious circumstances’ but police say heart attack.
Or Dylan Whitford (Whanganui 1994)? ‘It’s so simple I don’t know why others haven’t thought of it’ in relation to his water fuelled engine.
Attacked by unknown assailants following an anonymous phone call warning him, shortly after going public with his invention. Recovered from his injuries but subsequently left town ‘to lie low’.
Then there’s Archie Blue (and his millionaire partners based in Guernsey) with his 1970s water-powered Mini. On his death in the 1990s ‘everything (plans+drawings etc) went to the tip’ according to the family.
His surname was Vincent. Fell into a hay baler (which was higher than he was)
Oh awesome. I thought Stanley Meyer was the first.🤙🏽🤙🏽
Not an invention but 'a process', namely arbitration was I believe firstly a New Zealand first.
Sistema
Child proof lids are annoying as all get out there's lots now that are near adult proof lids
Its bullshit here in NZ, i can look out the window and see cows in the paddocks yet pay nearly $9 for a block of butter!
Don't buy it .
Pork bones and puha...
the martin jet pack can take a flying leap from this list, not as much an invention as a useless PR tool tool
Yep, ‘ducted fan pack’.
Pretty much vapourware intended to catch the eye of venture capital it seems
ditn't fly, went to Austrailia, still ditn't fly, 20 millions wasted
They also invented diverse hiring practices and lost half their navy, along with the false charge, the pig headed attitude and the most intolerable accent you ever did hear.
Luv it. Thanks Aussie. ANZAC MATESHIP CONTINUES.
CORRECTION: A.J. Hackett did NOT invent bungy jumping. The idea of jumping off things while attached with a rubber band was invented by David Kirke of the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club. in 1979 (and not the Vanuatu land divers), 7 years before Hackett did his first jump. For some reason AJ Hackett does not want Kirke to get credit for creating Bungee Jumping.
Please update this video. You can replace it with the High Speed Dental Drill which was invented in Wellington.
Nah. The whisle was invented in the UK. British Bobbies were issued whisles before the Maori landed on NZ shores.
They were a straight steel whistle rather than with the pea style design used in sports whistle.
Also, the invention of the ‘pea’ type sports whistle is usually attributed to Joseph Hudson in the UK in 1884 (the ‘Acme Thunderer’).
Hudson was an established whistle maker for the Police, having previously developed and supplied the cylindrical whistle that is the familiar Police pattern.
Atack is usually named as the first person to USE a pea whistle to referee a game
Its saying the Use of a whistle in refereeing was the invention, not the whistle itself.
@@K1W1fly
Good point, pays to check before flying into commenting I guess 🙂But I do wonder about primary sources for these types of claims, which usually feature in many TIL and ‘did you know?’ articles. I could only turn up newspaper articles reporting it as established fact.
Are you people in our (Australia's) West Islands stealing more of Australia's greatness along with Split Enz, Pavlovas and Flat Whites? Shame on you Kiwis, shame! .... 😂😂😂
I look forward to you back dating my account with my share of our great federations mineral wealth.
I will start working on a decent flag , something with a quokka and some kiwi fruit?
@@Frombie_01 You really believe that, Split Enz were never Aussies and as far is the rest it's debatable.
Split Enz. Are you serious? I was hitching across the Nullarbor decades ago and the truck driver had the radio on and they mentioned the great Australian band Split Enz and he agreed. I damn near asked to be let out:)
@@colindigitaljames6619 Being a Boomer and not really au fait with emojies, but I do blelieve that the ones I inserted were to indicate it was an attempt at humour.
To all of the above, please forgive my typos as I wasn't wearing my glasses when I replied. TH-cam won't let me edit my wayward keystrokes.
Interesting vid ruined by a substandard English ref,
Not the Pearse Myth... Its not Sustained, or controlled, and probably didnt occur before 1904 at the absolute earliest, but its become a bit of a religion in NZ...
Yessss!
Take my upvote K1W1fly.
Even Pearse himself never claimed to have been first.
*Forgotten Silver* has a lot to answer for
@@RB-qq1ky best doco ever!
Keep on dreaming, Kiwis, not the bird but the people know the truth.
Richard Pearse flew 31st of March 1903 according to credible evidence .
His plane was more powerful and closer to a modern one than the Wright's.
Nah man aotearoa been here longer than all names given for our lands here in nu tireni. Over 1000 years we been here and here and here
Except aotearoa never included the Sth Island and only came in to being after the English came here. Also, maori weren't the first here by far. Remember the moriori? Where\what the heck is nu tireni?
Maori have been here for about 700 years and arrived only 350 years before Tasman first sighted NZ in 1642.
Earliest know maori site at Wairau Bar has been radiocarbon dated to around 1300 CE.
Another way we can tell when Maori arrived is because they burnt a large percentage of NZ bushland at around that time including most of the south islands forest cover that has never recovered .
But Aotearoa doesn't appear in any of our constitutional documents. So it's invalid.
Trench warfare