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Boomerang?
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mando1463 said:
Watching a doco the other day where it was explained that one use of returning boomerangs was to throw over a flock of ducks.
Apparently the birds think it's an eagle over head. They keep low and fly into a net strung between trees. Clever.
What inventor was inspired by the boomerang and what did he make
Was it David Uniapon, who made a contribution to Helicopter aerodynamics?
Actually, he made drawings of a helicopter design based on the boomerang pre WW1, but I don;t think any thing was built from it. He was an interesting character, and is the bloke on the $50 note.
DR you got it
Unaipon took out provisional patents for 19 inventions but was unable to afford to get any of his inventions fully patented. His most successful invention (provisional patent 15 624), a shearing machine that converted curvilineal motion into the straight line movement which is the basis of modern mechanical shears, was introduced without Unaipon receiving any financial return and, apart from a 1910 newspaper report acknowledging him as the inventor, he received no credit.
Other inventions included a centrifugal motor, a multi-radial wheel and a mechanical propulsion device. He was also known as the Australian Leonardo da Vinci for his mechanical ideas, which included pre World War I drawings for a helicopter design based on the principle of the boomerang and his research into the polarisation of light and also spent much of his life attempting to achieve perpetual motion
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Unaipon took out provisional patents for 19 inventions but was unable to afford to get any of his inventions fully patented. His most successful invention (provisional patent 15 624), a shearing machine that converted curvilineal motion into the straight line movement which is the basis of modern mechanical shears, was introduced without Unaipon receiving any financial return and, apart from a 1910 newspaper report acknowledging him as the inventor, he received no credit.
Other inventions included a centrifugal motor, a multi-radial wheel and a mechanical propulsion device. He was also known as the Australian Leonardo da Vinci for his mechanical ideas, which included pre World War I drawings for a helicopter design based on the principle of the boomerang and his research into the polarisation of light and also spent much of his life attempting to achieve perpetual motion
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Have to think of something, it's getting harder!
the duck said:
Another great one duck. I better read up on him.
RR
Two of Australia's greatest cricketers first met when they played for opposing sides in a country cricket match. Who were they and what happened?
Hint, one of them was the best batsman ever, the other a great bowler.
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