Explore the index of 21,500 Victorian patent applications and discover the details of the original patents of Geelong's James Harrison's refrigeration machinery of 1856 and Victoria's H.V.McKay's harvester machine of 1885. View the details of the Victorian patent applications for Thomas Alva Edison's incandescent electric light bulb (1880) and Alexander Graham Bell's telephone (1878).

Search for inventors living in Bendigo or Stawell in the 1800s, and trace the developments in gold separating and sheep shearing machines in the last half of the nineteenth century.

Link to Bright Sparcs to learn out about the lives of Australia's early scientists and inventors, and visit Museum Victoria's Inventions & Technology Web site.