Scifest Africa 2016 - Professor Mike Bruton - Who was South Africa’s greatest inventor?

Описание: Recorded 2 March 2016

Did you know that the dolos, CAT Scan, prepaid
airtime, Kreepy Krauly, speed gun and Pratley
Putty are all famous South African inventions?
South Africans are highly adaptable and
innovative people and we can be justly proud
of our significant contributions to the advance
of technology. But who was our greatest
inventor? There are many candidates, men and
women, from the lesser acknowledged inventors
of bygone ages who used their indigenous
knowledge to develop foodstuffs, grooming
products, medicines and tools, to modern
inventors who made advances in these fields
or whose inventions led to modern fields such
as biotechnology, communications, energy,
nanotechnology, transport and space science.

Come along and play a role in deciding who
was our greatest inventor, and once you have
decided, why not join Mike for a walkthrough of
the “Great South African Inventions” interactive
exhibition at Scifest Africa?

Professor Mike Bruton has been interested in
innovation since he was involved, as former
Director of the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology
(now the South African Institute for Aquatic
Biodiversity), in encouraging his researchers
to be novel and creative in their approach to
science. In 2004, he developed an exhibition
titled “Great South African Inventions“ at the
MTN Sciencentre (now the Cape Town Science
Centre) as part of the science centre’s celebration
of ten years of democracy. This exhibition was
highly successful and Mike was encouraged to
use his research to write a book with the same
title, which was published in 2010. He recently
developed a new exhibition on this topic and is
writing a book titled Inventions of the Rainbow
Nation to be published by Jacana Media in 2017.

Mike works as a consultant, offering expert
services in the fields of aquatic research
management, authorship, imagineering,
museum and science centre development, and
public talks on science, technology, innovation
and the environment. He owns crazy collections
of unique artworks depicting coelacanths,
laundry pegs and stamps.

This lecture is sponsored by SAASTA