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The Kiwi Spirit in New ZealandNew Zealanders enjoy an enviable lifestyle. With a small population and the abundance of the land developed a pride of self-reliance and pragmatism. Kiwis usually believe they can do absolutely anything and just love the challenge to prove it.
- New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the vote in 1893.
- In 1902 Richard William Pearse took the world's first flight.
- Baron Ernest Rutherford was one of the first and most important researchers in nuclear physics. He was the first to induce the artificial nuclear reaction.
- Jean Batton, a Kiwi woman, broke international aviation records in the 1920s and again in the 1930s.
- In 1935 an elected Labour Government put the 40-hour working week in place.
- A New Zealander invented the tear back Velcro-strip, the pop-lid on a self sealing paint tin, as well as the childproof pill bottle and the crinkle in your hairpins so that they don't fall out.
- William Hamilton developed and perfected the propeller-less jet boat based on the principle of water jet propulsion. He also invented the hay-lift, an advanced air compressor and air conditioner, a machine to smooth ice on skating ponds and a water sprinkler.
- New Zealand is known for many, many more inventions.
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