Great Australian World Firsts - The Things We Made, the Things We Did

Informationen zum Autor Chrystopher J. Spicer teaches writing and communication at James Cook University in Queensland, and has been writing about Australian and American film and history for many years. He is the author of the acclaimed biography "Clark Gable," lauded by Empire film magazine as "meticulously researched and respectful in approach." He was also a major contributor to the Encyclopedia of Melbourne. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Chrystopher J. Spicer, SPICER CHRYSTOPHER J
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9781742376738
• ISBN: 978-1-74237-673-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries