Inventions

Date: 17 Jun 1995

From: Memories of the Kaipara oral history project : Part one

By: Smith, Norman V, active 1995

Reference: OHInt-0430/12

Description: Discusses his work experiences until 1962 when he joined the Woodhill State Forest. Describes how his job was under the Fire Service which serviced all the State Forests in the area. Discusses fire equipment and training. Talks about the need to stop sand from covering farms and railway tracks. Gives a historical background to this mentioning the Public Works Act in the 1930s. Recalls gangs and camps in the Muriwai area and headquarters at Woodhill. Describes a number of inventions including a lupin seed sower, marram grass planter, a machine which traversed sand to get kauri logs and a submersible pump to utilise sea water and put out fires. Discusses toheroa digging, community life, the generations of families at Woodhill and the consequences of the forests being sold by the Government. Mentions Dan Young, Ned and Charlie Fenton and Arthur Terlesk. Talks about the tree nurseries, the effect of poisons on the bird life, and whale strandings and shipwrecks on Muriwai Beach. Mentions the `Warkworth'. Talks about the release of fallow deer by Alfred Buckland, deer farming by John Harmer and deer hunting at South Head. Discusses pre European sites, middens, battlegrounds and obsidian. His son Greg sat in on the interview Interviewer(s) - Bernadette Malizia Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3333.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-127

Description: Photographs related to geology, inventions, and meteorology, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Images related to geology are arranged alphabetically from LA to V. Images related to meteorology are arranged alphabetically from GEN to FL. Contains images related to flooding from 1950 to 1976. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1820

By: McLean, T, active 1830s; Heath, William, 1795-1840

Reference: B-093-007

Description: Shows various inventions, some associated with rapid travel, including flying machines, a vaccuum tube transporting passengers between London and Bengal, and a bridge linking England and Cape Town. One flying machine, a walrus, wombat or bat, is 'for New South Wales, with convicts'. There is a steam-driven horse called Velocity, carrying five riders; a stagecoach capable of going from London to Bath in 6 hours; a 'quick conveyance for the Irish emigrants' (a cannon shooting people across a large distance, probably to America) and a 'Model for a new church designed by the Mammoths of Taste'. The monogram, lower left, of a man in a top hat, is intended to show Paul Pry, the pseudonym of William Heath. Paul Pry, a comedy, was performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 1825. Other Titles - Lord how this world improves as we grow older Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed with a monogram of a man in a top hat and Esdn delt. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 280 x 393 mm

Date: [Feb-Jul 1906]

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-231

Description: Comprises correspondence, receipts, accounts, memos etc; identified persons entered under Name. Also includes plan for a post office in Waikanae; financial summary of properties, receipts and expenditure, and mortgages; gas and electricity accounts Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 17 May 1983

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part I

By: Porritt, Norman Deans, 1908-1983

Reference: OHInt-0096/13

Description: Norman Deans Porritt born Wanganui 1908. Outlines family background - father, Harold Elliott Porritt, the youngest pupil in New Zealand to get Matriculation (aged 12), was a lover of horses and bred pedigree Clydesdale draught horses. Recalls early childhood spent in Marton, Matamata and Cambridge; home life on the farm; transport, mainly by horse and gig, until family got first motor car, a Ford, which father learned to drive by `trial and error'; religion and Sunday activities; social life, education and employment which commenced with Customs in Auckland at the age of 16 years. Briefly describes his first work place, with reference to coke fires in winter and first boss, Stan Harrap; basic starting salary which included an extra boarding allowance. Mentions Public Service Association. Other topics discussed include: move to Statistics in Head Office and refers to the `Blue Book' which contained statistics of imports and exports from ports all over New Zealand; Social life, with reference to the Pier Hotel; promotion; move to Napier as Examining Officer, describing Napier Port during late 1930s; The Depression; Marine and Fisheries duties; impact of Import Licensing; introduction of Sales Tax in 1933; transfer to Wellington, with reference to wharf police. Recalls being called for World War II service with the Air Force, training at Harewood and Whenuapai and being due to go to Guadalcanal, when he had an accident at the rifle range requiring two years in hospital. Refers to petrol shortage during wartime and recalls inventing a coal produced gas device, which meant car would start on petrol and switch over to gas - describes mechanical process. Talks about post war work with Customs. Mentions the 1940 Exhibition and the 1951 Waterside Strike when everyone had to have a special police pass to get on the wharf. Venue - Wellington Interviewer(s) - Judith Fyfe Venue - 124 Cecil Street, Wadestown, Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-000576-000577 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-0077. Search dates: 1908 - 1983

Date: 1955

From: Mayne, William Thomas, 1910-1988 :490 original cartoons published in the Christchurch Star Sun and the Christchurch Star Sun Sports between 1954 and 1962.

Reference: A-386-041

Description: Shows a man arriving to work on a flying mattress. He is yawning and still in his pyjamas. His colleague is holding a newspaper with the headline 'The British Supply Ministry has ordered six models of the 'Flying Mattress'' The words '16th August '55, "Flying mattress" cartoon, No. 122' is written in blue coloured pencil on the back of the cartoon Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and blue coloured pencil on card, 255 x 278 mm

Date: 2018

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to science, scientific discovery]

By: NZTech

Reference: Eph-A-SCIENCE-2018-01

Description: Brochure listing the 2018 highlights of the annual festival of innovation Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Pamphlet of one sheet, folded to 210 x 150 mm.

Date: [1910-1976]

From: Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979 : Further papers

Reference: 86-105-025

Description: Note by Lawlor, `To be adapted to my Big Diary, Jun 67'. Includes illustrated note, possibly from Lawlor's wife; copies of letters to Pete, Marn and Peter, Martin, and Eileen; letter from Martin, clippings, piece on Eileen Duggan (1943), on R.McGeddon and other topics; menu, with signatures and cartoons (1926); list of Joe Maxwell's inventions; various commentaries by Lawlor; diary extracts and other papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1975

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-134-751

Description: This cartoon shows entries in an inventors' award to boost overseas funds. Shown are a 'Counter devaluation and inflation machine' (for counterfeiting money), a Staff Stimulator (a whip) and first prize a rubber stamp for cancelling import licences Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone and crayon, 280 x 406 mm

Date: 28 Oct 1872

By: Brown, Charles Carlino, 1820-1901

Reference: MS-Papers-3151

Description: Letter from Brown to Houghton re his proposition `for obviating the visible discharge of smoke from the engine fires of men of war' Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1940 - 1945

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to petrol, motor fuels, petroleum industry, drilling]

By: New Zealand Gasogene Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-PETROL-1940-01

Description: Pamphlet promoting a gas producer that uses fuel derived from coal, for fuelling vehicle engines. Shows photographs of the apparatus in place on a car, and gives prices, instruction for use, maintenance, and controls. The New Zealand Gasogene Company was in Wellington. An Auckland agent was Truck Services Limited, 4 Gittos Street, Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded pamphlet, 290 x 225 mm. Provenance: Cory-Wright Salmon papers, 77-048-27/06. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - 77-048-27/06. Transferred from Manuscripts 77-048..

Date: [ca 22 September 1979]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP/1979/3321-F

Description: Wellington's city engineer Jim Macdonald standing in front of a stone crusher that won him and a colleague the 1979 UDC Finance Inventors' Award. Photographs taken ca 22 September 1979 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) strip with 3 images. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm

Date: 1972

From: [Ephemera and catalogues relating to exhibitions, industrial and trade shows in New Zealand. 1970-1979]

By: Inventors' Association of New Zealand

Reference: Eph-A-EXHIBITION-1972-01

Description: Catalogue booklet listing 77 exhibits of inventions. Includes machinery for use in farming, building, domestic use, transportation. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 14 pages, 244 x 177 mm.

Date: 30 Sep 1879-2 Jan 1880

By: Fowler, John Coulson, 1850-1923

Reference: MS-Papers-0986

Description: Title continues:`...what was called John Coulson Fowler, & Emma Isabella, his wife: and who was a going out to New Zealand; a seeking of their fortunes. This is the krect card, and no error.' Describes voyage from England to New Zealand on board the `Western Monarch', 1879-1880. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (101 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) Diagram on page 31 of Fowler's invention for creating a draught when lying in bed on board ship

Date: Jun-Dec 1905

From: Field, William Hughes, 1861-1944 : Papers

Reference: 73-128-079

Description: Includes correspondence relating to patent for washing, straining and draining wool, Bible-in-Schools, employment requests, summary of Government advances to settlers, code for date of General Election, notes on the cost of living and the Licensing Act, request for duty on imported vehicles, dental subsidies and other matters Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1925 - 1930

By: New Zealand Institute of Patent Attorneys

Reference: Eph-A-LAW-1920s-01

Description: Booklet outlining facts about the Patent Office, preparing the specifications, term of a patent, renewal fees, lapsed patents, foreign patents and international convention. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 1 volume of 25 pages, 210 x 138 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Otago Heritage Books in September 2002.

Date: 1970 - 1986

By: New Zealand Trade Development Board

Reference: MS-Papers-10738

Description: The collection comprises correspondence of the commercial attache, Trade Commissioner and Minister (Commercial) at the New Zealand High Commission in London (1980-1985). Includes a report on Sandra Blewett's proposed North Channel swim, a 1970 British National Export Council report on New Zealand and a 1986 report on yellow fats and butter markets and the ramification for Anchor Foods Ltd. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter

Date: 1984

By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Auckland star (Newspaper)

Reference: A-336-113

Description: Shows four inventors queueing at the Patent Office, each holding a strangely shaped parcel. This cartoon illustrated an article in the Auckland Star about New Zealand's only Patent Office at the time, in High Street, Lower Hutt. Negatives at PA Collection 5371 Bromhead Collection Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink on card 190 x 235 mm Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1997.

Date: 1972

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Sports post (Newspaper)

Reference: B-134-352

Description: This cartoon features a chair especially designed to keep All Black fans awake to watch the televised games from the tour of the UK. It is a Heath Robinson type contraption fitted with springs, an alarm and a mallet with complex instructions. A man is testing out the chair. Published in Sports Post 1972. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, crayon and letratone, 383 x 316 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 2007

From: Fletcher, David, 1952- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0003394

Description: 'The Politician' cartoon strip. The Minister is delighted that the public is taking his invented budget calculations seriously enough to claim they are wrong. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).