List of New Zealand inventors

The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions.

• Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique^[1]
• John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle^[2]
• Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers^[3]
• Morton Coutts – invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing^[4]
• Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited^[5]
• Ernest Godward – inventor of the eggbeater^[6]
• A. J. Hackett – popularised of commercial Bungy jumping^[7]
• Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat^[8]
• Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal^{[citation needed]}
• Peter Lynn – leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoretician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill^{[citation needed]}
• Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe and the tranquilliser gun^[9]
• Richard Pearse – aviation pioneer^[10]
• Bill Pickering – rocketry and space pioneer, former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director
• Alan Prichard – pioneer of aerial topdressing
• Bill Robinson – inventor of the lead rubber bearing used for seismic base isolation in earthquake engineering

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