MINI: The Forgotten Aussie Inventor
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, Melbourne's Gold 104.3. |
| 0:04.6 | A couple of days ago, we were talking about your nan and your granddads. |
| 0:07.6 | Have they got acclaim to fame? |
| 0:08.9 | And we had some amazing stories. |
| 0:10.7 | We heard about the granddad who many years ago, this was a sad one, invented the combine |
| 0:16.2 | harvester. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, him and his brother invented the combine harvester in the early 1920s, I think she said. |
| 0:21.8 | Which changed farming and how we get food in it all over the world and then got ripped off. |
| 0:27.8 | It was a recent one. |
| 0:28.8 | Then there were some which we're not quite sure if they were true. |
| 0:31.2 | There was a guy Rick who called up about his nan who reckoned she introduced the espresso machine from Italy. |
| 0:37.4 | She bought it over from Italy in her suitcase. |
| 0:40.0 | I was in a coffee shop yesterday, right? |
| 0:42.0 | Just looking at the size of an espresso machine. |
| 0:44.9 | That's now in 2019. |
| 0:47.3 | Back in the 60s or 70s, when this non-a-clean to a... |
| 0:51.0 | In a suitcase, lucked on an entire... Anything to declare? No. Can you help me with my suitcase? |
| 0:58.0 | Imagine trying to get an expresser machine of baggage reclaim? |
| 1:02.0 | I mean, put my back out again. So some of them were incredible. I had this great email from Matt. |
| 1:07.0 | My granddad, he listened to the show in the UK. My granddad was a civil |
| 1:11.4 | servant in England for most of his work in life. We knew his job was something to do with the |
| 1:15.4 | royal family, as he was always invited to royal functions. When he died, listen to this, this is |
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