20 Australian inventions that changed the world By facebooker_916063145489061 1889 Electric Drill Sep 28, 1928 Medical Application of Penicillin Mar 17, 1953 Black Box Flight Recorder 1956 Ultrasound Scanner 1957 Cochlear Implant (Bionic Ear) 1957 Permanent-Crease Clothing 1958 Electronic Pacemaker 1960 Plastic Spectacle Lenses 1965 Inflatable Escape Slide and Raft 1975 Triton Workcentre 1978 Permaculture 1979 Racecam 1983 Winged Keel 1988 Polymer Bank Notes 1990 Spray-On Skin Mar 10, 1998 Frazier Lens Sep 21, 1998 Wi-Fi Technology 2005 Google Maps 2009 Tank-Bred Tuna System 2014 Gardasil and Cervarix Cancer Vaccines