The Auckland Harbour Bridge moveable lane barrier system was introduced in 1990 to provide additional capacity for peak traffic flows …
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The Barmac aggregate impact crusher was invented by Jim MacDonald when he was Deputy City Engineer, Wellington. In the 1970s …
The first such facility in the world, the Bluff all-weather package loaders were designed and built in New Zealand to …
The Fisher Monoplane, designed and built by Wellington engineer, Percy Fisher, holds an important place in New Zealand's aviation history …
First built at his Irishman Creek workshop for boating on Canterbury’s shingle rivers in the 1950s, Sir William Hamilton’s development …
University of Auckland engineering professors, John Boys and Grant Covic, are world-leaders in the commercial application of inductive power transfer …
Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, opened in January 1985, is a fine example of entrepreneurial engineering. Innovatively created inside disused sewage …
Conceived in a hotel room at the Ritz Carlton, Washington DC on 12 July 1987, KZ 1 is a 90 …
The MONIAC is a notable example of an analogue computer. It is an economic simulator that used water to model …
The New Zealand Steel Slurry Pipeline was an innovative step in slurry pumping technology. Built in 1986, it was the …
A replica of the aircraft designed and built by Richard Pearse, a young farmer with no formal engineering training but …
The Single Earth Wire Return (SWER) is a low cost electrical distribution system. It was developed by New Zealand engineer …
The Vacreator was invented in New Zealand by H. Lamont Murray. The initial development began in 1923 when Murray and …
