List of New Zealand inventors

The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions.

• Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique
• John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle
• Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers
• Morton Coutts – invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing
• Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited
• Ernest Godward – improved eggbeater
• A. J. Hackett – popularised of commercial Bungy jumping
• Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat
• Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal
• Peter Lynn – leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoretician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill
• Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe and the tranquilliser gun
• Richard Pearse – aviation pioneer
• Bill Pickering – rocketry and space pioneer, former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director
• Alan Prichard – pioneer of aerial topdressing
• Bill Robinson – inventor of the lead rubber bearing used for seismic base isolation in earthquake engineering

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