Australian Innovation – The Hills Hoist
A Hills Hoist is an inexpensive rotary clothes line developed and marketed by Australian, Lance Hill in 1945. The Hills clothes hoist by became a symbol of Australian home life…
Nikola Tesla
Eventually holding over 700 patents, Tesla worked in a number of fields, including electricity, robotics, radar, and wireless transmission of energy. Tesla’s discoveries laid the groundwork for many of the…
Getting Started in Drawing
The Pencil The origins of today’s pencil goes back to 1565, when a grey-black glistening substance was found in Borrowdale, in the Cumberland hills of England. It was said to…
Innovation and Emerging Technologies
What do you understand an innovation to be? An innovation is the new use or application of existing technology for a completely different purpose from which it was originally used…