List of New Zealand inventors

The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions.

Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique
John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle
Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers
Morton Coutts – invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing
Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited
Ernest Godward – inventor of the eggbeater
A. J. Hackett – popularised of commercial Bungy jumping
Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat
Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal
Peter Lynn – leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoretician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill
Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe and the tranquilliser gun
Richard Pearse – aviation pioneer
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

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