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Inventor. Engineer. Businessman. Known for. Popularising the electric fence. Relatives. Bill Gallagher (son) Alfred William Gallagher MBE (17 May 1911 – 8 August 1990) was a New Zealand inventor, manufacturing engineer and businessman. He is notable for popularising the electric fence.
An electric fence is a barrier that uses electric shocks to deter people and other animals [note 1] from crossing a boundary. The voltage of the shock may have effects ranging from discomfort to death. Most electric fences are used for agricultural fencing and other forms of non-human animal control, although they are also used to protect high ...
Biography. Gallagher was born on 22 January 1941, the son of Bill Gallagher [1] and Millie Gallagher (née Murray). [2][3] His father was an inventor, engineer and businessman who is best remembered for popularising the electric fence; he founded Gallagher Engineering Limited in Hamilton in 1963. The younger Bill Gallagher and his brother John ...
Number 8 wire. A model showing a method for jury-rigging a rudder, an example of Number 8 wire mentality. Number 8 wire is a 0.16-inch-diameter (4.064 mm) gauge of wire on the British Standard Wire Gauge that has entered into the cultural lexicon of New Zealand.
Bill Gallagher – developer of the electric fence and founder of Gallagher Group Limited [5] Ernest Godward – inventor of the eggbeater [6] A. J. Hackett – popularised of commercial Bungy jumping [7] Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat [8] Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal [citation needed]
Buried electric fences, called "invisible fence," are sometimes used to contain dogs, who wear a specialized collar when outside that gives a mild shock if the dog crosses the fence line. Humans and other animals are unaware of the buried line. This wire does not carry current. A transmitter sends out a radio signal.
Wire of Death. Coordinates: 51°16′56″N 5°31′41″E. View of the Wire of Death from Sluis. The Wire of Death (Dutch: Dodendraad, German: Todesdraht, French: Fil De La Mort) was a lethal electric fence created by the German military to control the Dutch–Belgian frontier after the occupation of Belgium during the First World War.
Ugg boots. Categories: Science and technology in New Zealand. Inventions by country. Oceanian inventions.