Great Australian world firsts : the things we made, the things we did
Spicer, Chrystopher J.2012
Books, Manuscripts
From Sir Jack Brabham (first to win a Grand Prix in a car of his own design) to Tom Angove (inventor of the wine cask), from Bruce Thompson (introduced the first dual flush toilets) to Mary Fortune (the first female author of detective fiction) - here are the world's great ideas, inventions, feats and follies - as done first, by Australians.
Main title:
Great Australian world firsts : the things we made, the things we did / Chrystopher J. Spicer.
Author:
Imprint:
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2012.
Collation:
xi, 324 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
General.
ISBN:
9781742376738
Dewey class:
994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
7098
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