This is a part of the Web site Special Inventions , which looks at inventors and inventions in the Murray-Darling Basin. This page discusses important inventions of the Basin.
Inventions can be ways in which people use technology to overcome problems in their area.
In the Basin, Aboriginal people have used technology from thousands of years before Europeans first arrived in Australia to solve problems and to improve their lives. Europeans were often very poorly equipped to deal with the Basin. Some of them came from colder, European countries where there was much more water and very different soil. As a result, they made mistakes in the Basin and often struggled to live. Some of the inventions listed here show the amazing devices they created to solve the problems that faced them every day.