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The returning nature of the boomerang
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Aussie Inventions That Changed The World

The returning nature of the boomerang is achieved through precise sandingof one wing for...

The returning nature of the boomerang is achieved through precise sanding
of one wing for lift and the angling of the other tip
to create spin

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The returning nature of the boomerang
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is achieved through precise sanding of one wing for lift
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and the angling of the other tip to create spin.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:15
Uploaded
Jun 16, 2025
Season
1
Episode
7
Genres
Production
SkinnyDip Pictures,Northern Pictures

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Movie Summary

The 8 part series reveals a raft of great Australian inventors who turned game-changing ideas into a reality and forever changed how we live.
S01 • E01 Yeah. So, you had the challenge from government to build a better bog. - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:05
Yeah. So, you had the challenge from government to build a b...
S01 • E04 So they interlock with every other fibre in different directions, - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:09
So they interlock with every other fibre in different direct...
S01 • E01 Yeah, and it just so happened it just fitted with - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:06
Yeah, and it just so happened it just fitted with
S01 • E02 The first deaf-born child to receive a cochlear implant was Pia O'Donnell. - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:06
The first deaf-born child to receive a cochlear implant was ...
S01 • E06 ..New South Wales politician Augustus Morris's - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:08
..New South Wales politician Augustus Morris's
S01 • E01 What we thought we should (DISCO MUSIC) - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:10
What we thought we should (DISCO MUSIC)
S01 • E08 INTERVIEWER: Doesn't this mean, in a sense, - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:08
INTERVIEWER: Doesn't this mean, in a sense,
S01 • E04 That's fascinating, 'cause felt is so structural, - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:05
That's fascinating, 'cause felt is so structural,
S01 • E05 Within a decade, the world's health community - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:11
Within a decade, the world's health community
S01 • E02 Pia! Really nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:04
Pia! Really nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too.
S01 • E03 The Battle of Polygon Wood, in the Passchendaele campaign, - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:09
The Battle of Polygon Wood, in the Passchendaele campaign,
S01 • E07 Yep. That turns the boomerang - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:05
Yep. That turns the boomerang
S01 • E04 But I always thought cats were the worst scourge on the Aussie bush. - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:05
But I always thought cats were the worst scourge on the Auss...
S01 • E02 30 years later, - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:05
30 years later,
S01 • E06 Look at this absolutely wonderful spread. - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:04
Look at this absolutely wonderful spread.
S01 • E08 Much less lucky than I was to share it with him. - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:04
Much less lucky than I was to share it with him.
S01 • E04 Oh, no - before the 1950s, before myxomatosis was introduced, - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:08
Oh, no - before the 1950s, before myxomatosis was introduced...
S01 • E03 And there's one report from one of the privates there - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:15
And there's one report from one of the privates there
S01 • E01 That meant every time you tinkled, - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:08
That meant every time you tinkled,
S01 • E08 Suppose somebody else had made the X-ray spectrometer? - Aussie Inventions That Changed The World 00:06
Suppose somebody else had made the X-ray spectrometer?