Great Australian World Firsts: The Things We Made, the Things We Did by Chrystopher J Spicer

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to front cover right tail corner, now protected with book tape. Sunning to foredges and author bio page.

From Sir Jack Brabham (first to win a Grand Prix in a car of his own design) to Tom Angove (inventor of the wine cask), from Bruce Thompson (introduced the first dual flush toilets) to Mary Fortune (the first female author of detective fiction) - here are the world's great ideas, inventions, feats and follies - as done first, by Australians.

Australians are among the most outstanding innovators on the planet, leading the world in achievements across many fields such as sport, the arts, medicine, transport and exploration.

Great Australian World Firsts tells the stories of thirty remarkable Australians, many of whom are long overdue for recognition, and will delight and inspire with insights into unique human achievement.

Mary Fortune, Pat Sullivan, Nora Heysen, Peter Finch, Bennelong, Emmeline Freda Du Faur, Hubert Wilkins, John Hoelschers, Kay Cottee, James Harrison, Henry Sutton, Tullie C Wollaston, Vida Goldstein, Nellie Martel, Mary Ann Moore-Bentley, Selina Anderson, Eric Waterworth, Thomas W C Angove, Dr Mark C Lidwill, Dr Fiona Wood, Bobby McDonald, Charlie Samuels, Annette Kellerman, Alfred Alexander, Jack Brabham, Geoff Healey, Michael O'Brien, Louis Brennan, Florence Mary Taylor, Anthony George Michell, Lancelot de Mole, William T Kelly and Jessie Miller.