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