By Andrew Robb
Special to the Mercury News
Australians are known as some of the most enthusiastic early adopters” of new gadgets, but we do not just apply the technology of others, important as this may be. We also develop our own.
Australian researchers and inventors have given the world everything from Wi-Fi, ultrasound and the bionic ear to the world’s first electric drill, patented in 1889.
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