List of New Zealand inventors

The following is a list of New Zealand inventors and inventions.


 * Godfrey Bowen – developer of an improved sheep-shearing technique
 * John Britten – designer of the Britten motorcycle
 * Thomas Brydone and William Soltau Davidson – refrigerated shipping pioneers
 * Morton Coutts – invented the continuous fermentation method of brewing
 * Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited
 * Ernest Godward – inventor of the eggbeater
 * A. J. Hackett – popularised of commercial Bungy jumping
 * Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat
 * Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal
 * Peter Lynn – leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoretician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill
 * Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe and the tranquilliser gun
 * Richard Pearse – aviation pioneer
 * Bill Pickering – rocketry and space pioneer, former NASA Jet Propulsion Lab director
 * Alan Prichard – pioneer of aerial topdressing
 * Bill Robinson – inventor of the lead rubber bearing used for seismic base isolation in earthquake engineering