The following is a reproduction of the page published by the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) at the Australia Open for Business website at http://www.australiaforbusiness.com.au/aus/aus_innovation_case.asp?TLCaseStudyId=50 containing material copied from our book, Tomorrow's World, the Australian Initiative.

This page was removed from the Internet by Austrade on 9 February 2000.

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Australia invented the Black Box voice and instrument recorder

Constructed to survive a crash and document the last moments of a flight, The Black Box voice and instrument recorder's first prototype was produced in 1958.

David Warren joined a team investigating Comet jet airliner crashes at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne in 1953. As a result the devise was conceived to record aircraft speed, altitude, pitch and roll, as well as the flight crew's dialogue for up to four hours on an assortment of stainless steel wire immune to fire damage.

The innovation was capitalised on by a British company and has since been installed in nearly every large aircraft in the world.

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