I was not aware of this until now:

QUOTE: As passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 slid down the escape chutes of their burning Airbus on a midwinter Tokyo night, no doubt they were thanking the lucky stars above them.

But there’s another star in the distant annals of aviation that they may one day care to thank for their miraculous survival.

His name is Jack Grant, the 1921-born Australian inventor of those now mandatory chutes that contributed significantly to this week’s amazing saving of 379 lives, including 12 Australians.

Grant, in his role as operations safety superintendent at Qantas, was recognised in 1975 as the inventor of the revolutionary “slide-raft” by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators (now known as the Honourable Company of Air Pilots) in London for outstanding achievements in aviation.

Yep, that and the equally ubiquitous black box flight data recorders.

Here is a list of dozens of Australian inventions, many in every day use around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Australian_inventions

I did note some uneducated, utterly stupid, comment on the delay on dropping those chutes.

Some ignorant people seem to not realise, or its the cancel culture again, that there were probably hundreds, perhaps thousands, of litres of Avtur and or Avgas (combined) burning under the A350 especially if its belly tanks were ruptured as well.

There would have needed to be a delay while the outsiders & fire crews got the flames away from as many chutes as possible so that they were not incinerated trapping the passengers.

I have done fire fighting training and have a pilots licence.

The Japan Airlines plane was an A350, not an A380, and the other plane was a Dash 8, so no Avgas present.
Probably just as well on both counts! Could have been much worse.

Corrected aircraft: However, Avtur is principally a Kerosene with an open air burning temp of 1030 Celsius. There are a few variants.

However, that does not alter the situation. The major risk management issue facing the crew was where the fire actually was?

That governed the position by which they could escape. Panicking and opening up the fuselage & dropping the escape chutes too soon, would have been catastrophic.

Nothing is more clear: That evacuation part they all got right: Very right, and is worthy of great praise.