That credit goes to Colin Murdoch who invented the modern day plastic disposable syringe in the 1950s. (along with child proof medicine containers and the tranquillizer gun). It is often claimed that an African American (Phil Brooks) invented the first disposable syringe. This claim is incorrect and may be influenced by a desire to promote notable African Americans. Brooks' syringe is by no means the modern day plastic disposable syringe that everyone is familiar with. In fact, it looks nothing like the one we're used to. It can rightly be claimed that Brooks was the first person to receive a US Patent for a disposable syringe.
The first colonies and their governors. When the British first settled Australia at Port Jackson in New South Wales in 1788, they were only interested in the eastern part of the continent which had been claimed as a British colony in 1770 by Captain James Cook. He named it New South Wales.hen the British first settled Australia at Port Jackson in New South Wales in 1788, they were only interested in the eastern part of the continent which had been claimed as a British colony in 1770 by Captain James Cook. He named it New South Wales.
These first humans did not arrive in Australia by boat. At the time the first Aborigines came to Australia 50,000 years ago, humans were still in the Stone Age. They did not have the technology to build seagoing vessels of any kind.eing the first humans to arrive in Australia about 50,000 years ago; the Aborigines discovered Australia. They were the first human inhabitants of Australia. Aboriginal Australians were nomadic hunter-gathers. They roamed from place to place hunting animals and gathering fruits, nuts, yams and insects which they ate.