But why would you?

To show what a proud history of invention and innovation we have. Something that's been lost as our history is slowly wiped away.

All good inventions Swannie. There are some clever people in Australia and there's nothing wrong in wanting to point that out. Have you tried looking for British inventions that changed the World, or for inventions made by other developed countries?

Other nations invented items that were quite technical for their time and each generation builds on the knowledge of previous ones. For instance, what would have been the point of the wi-fi we have today without the Internet being invented first? Would the Internet have been possible without the previously developed electronics being there to run it?

Valves to transistors to integrated circuits to microchips ..and so on. The inventions you have mentioned were made possible by these. Who knows (without research) what nationalities were involved in developing them? I mean, nobody starts from scratch do they?

Thanks to Australia for the inventions but lets not forget the knowledge and innovations developed by many nations in the World that make newer ones possible ..whoever gets credited with them.

Man is a clever animal. yes as you say there had to be something invented before the others came into being as inprovements. Heck I am only too pleased to list inventions from other nations mart. Imagine how life is today had people not had the intelligence, foresite and innovative skills to bring them to reality. These were the pioneers.

the automobile~~~ Karl Benz
the electric light ~~~ Thomas Edison
the telephone ~~~ Alexander Graham Bell
Radio~~~ Guglielmo Marconi
Antibiotics~~~Alexander Fleming
the airplane ~~~Wright Brothers
the computer~~~ Charles Babbage
rocketry~~~Robert Hutchings Goddard
television~~~ John Logie Baird
nuclear energy~~~ Enrico Fermi

Yes, they all played their part in getting us the items and technology that most of us use today. We might not be in the best of worlds because of some of it but we are where we are.