Greatest Canadian Inventions
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dracodraconisSource: http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/
CBC asked listeners and viewers what they thought the 50 greatest Canadian inventions of all time were. Here is the list, lifted from the CBC web site.
Number 43 is of particular interest to me because I currently occupy the office at NRC previously occupied by Nestor Burtnyk.
CBC asked listeners and viewers what they thought the 50 greatest Canadian inventions of all time were. Here is the list, lifted from the CBC web site.
- Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best]
- Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
- Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
- Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan]
- Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier]
- Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
- Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson]
- Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
- Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
- Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance]
- Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
- Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
- Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell]
- Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC]
- Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming]
- Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
- Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier]
- BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
- Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
- Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples]
- Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
- Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack]
- UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet]
- Instant Replay [1955, CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada]
- Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante]
- Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders]
- Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall]
- Lacrosse [First Peoples]
- Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn]
- Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis]
- Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
- Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
- Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
- Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
- WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy]
- Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp]
- Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
- Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
- Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs]
- Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias]
- Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch]
- Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
- Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein]
- CPR Mannequin: “ACTAR 911” [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault]
- G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks]
- Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove]
- Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy]
- Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson]
- Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte]
- Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons]
Number 43 is of particular interest to me because I currently occupy the office at NRC previously occupied by Nestor Burtnyk.