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Season 1 | Episode 2 | ABC | October 26, 2011

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What goes into the making of the things all around us, the clothes we wear, the bread we eat, the paper we write on? 'Magic of Making' takes us behind the closed doors of industry.

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What goes into the making of the things all around us, the clothes we wear, the bread we eat, the paper we write on? 'Magic of Making' takes us behind the closed doors of industry.

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Magic Of Making

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What goes into the making of the things all around us, the clothes we wear, the bread we eat, the paper we write on? 'Magic of Making' takes us behind the closed doors of industry.

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The push for smarter farming is at the core of Australia's tough agricultural history. Richard and Clarence Smith quarrelled over who was the true inventor, but their stump-jump plough improved the economic prospects of farmers working difficult terrain. Frederic Wolseley's mechanical shears eventually won over the shearers and transformed the wool industry. Lew Bandt designed the ute for farmers needing a comfortable working vehicle, and Benjamin Dunkerley invented a fur-cutting machine that led to the iconic Akubra.

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The invention of the ute

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After Lewis Brandt at Ford Australia in Melbourne received a letter from a farmer's wife that she wanted a vehicle to, "take her to church on Sundays and pigs to market on Monday", Lew took on the challenge. He designed a vehicle that could serve these two purposes. After the Great Depression when funds for the average Australian were scarce, a two-in-one vehicle was incredibly useful.

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The stump-jump plough's invention

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When clearing mallee stump for agricultural crop land was proving to be a challenge, Richard Smith came up with the solution to the formidable problem of how to plough such impenetrable land. The stump-jump plough is one of the inventions that enabled the development of Australia's wheat belt, from WA, across to Victoria and into NSW.