Sector Navigation Lights
Norm Rumsey
What Norm created was a kind of modified slide projector, which shone three narrow beams of light across the dark harbour. A narrow white beam in the…
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Category · 11 inventions
Maritime & Transport
Jetboats, refrigerated shipping and sector navigation lights — moving people, goods and ideas.
Agriculture & Farming
Sport & Recreation
Medicine & Health
Engineering & Technology
Food & Household
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Hamilton Jetboat
William Hamilton
As a boy, Charles William "Bill" Feilden Hamilton (b 1899, d. 1978) showed the spirit of an engineer, making his own river rafts and land yachts to…
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Sealander
Terry Roycroft
Terry Roycroft has called his invention the Sealander, because it goes on sea and it goes on land. While that does not seem a very inventive name…
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Montgomery Mooring System
Peter Montgomery
Peter Montgomery (no, not that Pete Montgomery, a different one) is a serial entrepreneur.
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Refrigerated shipping
Thomas Brydone / William Davidson
To the rescue came two determined New Zealanders.
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Tallon Systems
Peter Marshall
The idea is beautiful: a unique mix-and-match system to mount anything in your car, on your boat, ute, in an aircraft cabin or in your home. A whole…
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Skycouch
Air New Zealand
Over three years from 2007, in a design complex called Hanger 9 in Auckland, and with the help of some high-powered international designers, Air New…
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Sealegs
Maurice Bryham
Sealegs is a clever invention in more ways than one.
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New fishing technique
Precision Seafood Harvesting
Scientists from Plant & Food Research, partnering with three large NZ commercial operators, have come up with a way to avoid that inefficiency and…
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WASSP
ENL
This collaboration between Callaghan Innovation (ex-IRL) scientists and Auckland company Electronic Navigation Limited (ENL) took a while. More than…
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Aquarium Tunnel
Kelly Tarlton
Kelly Tarlton (b. 1937, d. 1985) was a scientist, marine archeologist and diver whose love of the sea was started by French marine scientist Jacques…
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The whole No.8 wire story is in the book.
Every invention here — and 191 more — told in full, with the people and the laughs, in No.8 Re-Wired by David Downs & Jon Bridges.