List of New Zealand inventors
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The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions.
- Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique[1]
- John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle[2]
- Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers[3]
- Morton Coutts – invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing[4]
- Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited[5]
- Ernest Godward – improved eggbeater[6][7]
- A. J. Hackett – popularised of commercial Bungy jumping[8]
- Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat[9]
- Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal[citation needed]
- Peter Lynn – leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoretician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill[citation needed]
- Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe and the tranquilliser gun[10]
- Richard Pearse – aviation pioneer[11]
- Bill Pickering – rocketry and space pioneer, former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director
- Alan Prichard – pioneer of aerial topdressing
- Bill Robinson – inventor of the lead rubber bearing used for seismic base isolation in earthquake engineering