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Creative genius is the essence of the Kiwi character and recognised around the world. The author has drawn together more than a hundred examples of Kiwi ingenuity over the past 150 years across a range of industries, from shed mechanics, to those who used overseas resources to win Nobel Prizes, as well as those who have earned international success. Follow the inventive process and learn the true story of how - lacking resources and facing overwhelming difficulties - Kiwi ingenuity has pioneered global solutions in engineering, aviation, medicine, anthropology, marine biology, artillery, computer technology, agriculture, film making, education, social reform and more. Notes on patenting are included at the back of the book.Contents
Contents : 1. Ernest Rutherford - Father of Nuclear Physics -- 2. Civil Engineers - William Butler (house mover) - Harry Higginson (Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge) - Robert Denniston (Denniston self-acting incline) - John Rochfort (Main Trunk railway line) - Robert Holmes (Raurimu Spiral) -- 3. Early Inventors - Arthur Beverly (watchmaker) - John Eustace (airtight lid - but a leaky patent) - R.J. Dickie, J.H. Brown and W. Andrews (stamp vending machine) - Ernest Godward (hairpin and carburettor) - George Julius (the totaliser) - 4. Motoring Maestros - Cecil Wood (first New Zealand motorbike and built car) - Charles Jones (the motorised toboggan) 5. Aviation Pioneers - Richard Pearse (first to fly) - Leo and Vivian Walsh (New Zealand’s Wright brothers) - Jean Batten (female aviation pioneer) - Peter Button (air ambulance pioneer) 6. Social Pioneers - Samuel Parnell (the eight-hour working day) - Elizabeth Yates (world’s first voluntarily elected female mayor) - Kate Sheppard (the sensible suffragette) - Emily Siedeberg (first woman doctor) - Ethel Benjamin (first woman lawyer in the British Empire) - Agnes Bennett (pioneering feminist) - Richard Seddon (old age pension) - Elizabeth McCombs (first woman MP) - Mabel Howard (first woman Cabinet Minister) - Jenny Shipley (first woman Prime Minister) - Helen Clark (first elected woman Prime Minister) 7. Agricultural Engineers - John Blake (milking machine) - Sydney Knapp (Knapp Sack Sprayer) - H. Lamont Murray and Frank S. Board (Vacreator) - Bill Gallagher (electric fence) - Alexander Allison, Hayward Wright, Jim McLoughlin (kiwifruit) - John Lambert, Alan Pritchard, Doug Campbell, John Frizzell (aerial top-dressing) 8. Ingenuity with Wool and Sheep - James Little (Corriedale) - F.W. Dry (Drysdale) - Geoffrey Peren (Perendale) - Anonymous (wide-gauge shears with a curl) - Godfrey and Ivan Bowen (standard sharing technique) 9. Bill Hamilton - Jet Boat and Lots More 10. Machines and Machine-guns - Francis Delautor (five-cycle combustion engine) - Mick Couper (giant plough) - Charles Crowe (aircraft designer) - Alan Mitchell (world’s fastest machine gun) 11. Medical Marvels - Sir Harold Gillies (plastic surgery pioneer) - Archibal McIndoe (plastic surgery pioneer) - Sir Brian Barrett-Boyes (heart surgeon) - William Liley (world’s first prenatal blood tranfusion) - John Baeyertz (pregnancy tape) - Colin Murdoch (tranquiliser gun and disposable syringe) - Fred Hollows (eyes for the poor) - Leslie Kay (sonic sight for the blind) 12. Academic Aces - Alexander Aitken (maths genius) - Eric Partridge (the word man) - Harold Williams (world’s greatest linguist) 13. Sports Shapers - William Atack (referee’s whistle) - Vic Cavanagh (rucking) - William Whineray (Willie Away) - Arthur Lydiard (coaching and jogging) 14. The Searchers - Geoffrey Orbell (the lost bird) - Joan Wiffen (the dinosaur lady) 15. Super Scientists - Wiliam Pickering (father of the Space Age) - Maurice Wilkins (DNA) - Alan McDiarmid (Nobel Prize-winning chemist) 16. Brewing, Crushing, Cutting, Securing - John Hart (Thermette) - Morton Coutts (brewing) - Jim McDonald and Bryan Bartley (rock crusher) - Bill Robinson (quake absorbers) - Claudio Petronelli and Gavin Park (childproof pill container) - John Hough (Tullen snips) - Murray Baber (Securichain) - William Bacon (Yale Lock) 17. Educators - Sylvia Ashton-Warner (organic teaching) - Dame Marie Clay (Reading Recovery Programme) - Alan Duff (Books in Homes) 18. Maverick Mechanics - Burt Munro (world’s fastest Indian) - John Britten (Britten bike) - Jack Hinz (The plane that Jack built) 19. Unusual Talents - Burton Silver (the atypical inventor) - Steve Gurney (multi-talented multi-sporter) - Barry Brickell (master of fire and steam) 20. Leisure Leaders - A.J. Hackett (the bungy king) - Kelly Tarlton (Neptune of the underwater world) 21. Business Entrepreneurs - Joseph Nathan (the empire that began in Bunnythorpe) - A.H. Reed (publishing power) - Wendy Pye (from redundancy to a fortune) - Stephen Tindall (The Warehouse) - Geoff Blackwell (M.I.L.K.) - Peter Leitch (The Mad Butcher) 22. Modern Technologists - John Bedbrook (biochemist) - Steven Outrim (software programmer) 23. Peter Jackson - Master of the Movies 24. The Next Generation; Appendix : Patents - rough notes for the Inventor; Bibliography;
