No 8 wire - The Best of Kiwi Ingenuity by Jon Bridges

Over 100 Examples Of World-first Inventions And Innovations. A Celebration Of New Zealanders' Ability To Be World-beating Innovators With A Look At Around 100 Examples Of Kiwi Ingenuity, Ranging From Scientific And Technological Innovations To The Weird And Wacky. It Includes Popular Classics Such As The Hamilton Jet Boat And The Britten Motorbike. Perendale, Drysdale And Corriedale -- Woolrest Sleeper -- Tranquilliser Gun -- Deer Farming -- Allflex Ear Tags -- No. 8 Wire -- Gallagher And The Electric Fence -- Slug Fence -- Eze-pull Fencing Tool -- Staplelok Fencing System -- Freezer Vacuum Pump -- Bookpic Toothpick -- World's Largest Crumpet Maker -- Tullen Snips -- Thermette -- Stamp Vending Machine -- Barmac Rock Crusher -- Two-drawer Dishwasher -- World's First Fully Automated Soft-serve Ice Cream Vending Machine -- Kerr Metric -- Seismic Isolators -- Exposing Dna -- Temperature-calibrating Devices -- Knot Theory -- Kiwistar -- Vacreator -- Improvements In And Relating To Milking Apparatus -- Spreadable Butter -- High-frequency Cheese Cutter -- The Tote -- Continuous Fermentation -- Referee's Whistle -- Willie Away -- Tantrix -- Woolspill -- Securichain -- Sector Navigation Lights Non-chemical Weed Control -- Airtight Tin Lid -- Pavlova -- Powered Human Flight -- Death Ray -- Wide-toothed Shearing Comb -- Bungy Jumping -- Pickering's Satellite -- Fly-by-wire -- Wobble Of Tau Bootis -- Skystreme Kite -- Sausage Software -- Superconductors -- Ghost -- The Hotcake -- Origin Of The Cosmos -- Democracy -- Eve Hypothesis -- Lucy's Agar Mission -- Godward Economiser -- Smitkin Engine -- Edlin-stewart Engine -- Cadac -- Powerbeat Battery -- Hamilton Jetboat -- Myark -- Britten Motorcycle -- Travelling Buddy -- Sealander -- Jogging -- Rutherford And The Split Atom -- Marching Girls -- World's Fastest Machine-gun -- Baeyertz Tape -- Electronic Petrol Pump -- Childproof Lids -- Kaspa -- Cool Guard -- Singulairly (sic) Good Drug -- Unifoot -- First Aortic Valve Replacement -- Plastic Wheelchairs -- Things With The Word 'kiwi' In The Title -- Buzzy Bee -- Glaxo -- Kiwi Food -- The Patent Process. John Bridges & David Downs ; Illustrations By Mathew Clark. Contains Over 100 Examples Of World-first Inventions And Innovations, From Bungy Jumping To Splitting The Atom--back Cover. Includes Index. This 2000 Hodder Moa Beckett Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9781869588205 SKU: 1571487 This image is of the actual book.

Location: NZ NF