TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Tony
TI  - 101 ingenious Kiwis: how New Zealanders changed the world 
SN  - 0790011107
U1  - 920.093 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Auckland, N.Z.
PB  - Reed
KW  - Inventors
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Celebrities
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 179); 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 shearing technique -- 9. Bill Hamilton : Jet boat and lots more -- 10. Machines and machine-guns. Francis Delautour : 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. Archibald McIndoe : plastic surgery pioneer. Sir Brian Barrett-Boyes : heart surgeon. William Liley : world's first prenatal blood transfusion. John Baeyertz : pregnancy tape. Colin Murdoch : tranquilliser 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. William 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 Hugh : 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 Monro : world's fastest Indian. John Britten : Britten bike. Jack Hinz : the plane that Jack built -- 19. Unusual talents. Burton Silver : the atypical inventor. Stever 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 pioneer. 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. Steve Outtrim : software programmer -- 23. Peter Jackson : master of the movies -- 24. The next generation
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