Great Canadian Inventors
    Did you ever know that Canada is and was home to many great inventors. Their inventions helped to shape our world as we know it now. More and more inventions help to change it even moreso, increasing our quality of life with each invention. Listed below are just some of the many wonderful inventions by Canadian inventors. I hope to in the next while to increase this list even furthur.
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AC radio tube - Edward Samuel Rogers - 1925
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Basketball - James Naismith - 1891
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Chocolate bar - Arthur Ganong - 1910
Commercial motion picture - Clifford Sifton - 1903
Compound steam engine - Benjamin Franklin Tibbetts (1813-1853) - 1842

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Electric car heater - Thomas Ahearn - 1890
Electric cooking range - Thomas Ahearn - 1882
Electric light bulb (patent sold to Thomas Edison) - Henry Woodward - 1874
Electric organ - Morse Robb - 1928
Electric street car - John Joseph Wright - 1883
Electron Microscope - Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James Hillier, Albert Prebus - 1937

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Frozen food - Dr. Archibald Hunstman - 1929
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Hydrofoil boats - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin
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Insulin Process - Drs. Fredrick Banting, J.J. Macleod, Best, Collip - 1921
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Kayak - Inuit
Kerosene - Dr. Abraham Gesner

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Lacrosse - Iroquois and the Huron
Lawn Sprinkler - Elijiah McCoy

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Macpherson gas mask - Dr. Cluny Macpherson - 1915
Mcintosh Apple (the fruit) - John McIntosh - 1796

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Newsprint - Charles Fenerty (1821-1892) - 1838
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Odometer - Samuel McKeen - 1854
Oil-electric locomotive - Samuel J. Hungerford - 1929

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Paint roller - Norman Breakey - 1940
Panoramic picture camera - John Connon - 1887
Phonograph/gramophone - Alexander Graham Bell and Emile Berliner

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Railway car break - George B. Dorey - 1913
Rust-resistant red fife wheat - David Fife - 1843

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Ship propeller - John Patch (1789-1861) - 1833
Silicon steel alloy (used in electric motors) - Reginald A. Fessenden - 1892
Snow blower - Arthur Sicard - 1925
Snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier - 1922
Snow shoes - Eastern First Nations People
Sonar - Reginald A. Fessenden - 1914
Standard time - Sir Sanford Fleming - 1878

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Table top hockey game - Don Munro - 1932
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell - 1876
Telephone handset - Cyril Duquet - 1878
Television - Reginald A. Fessenden - 1927
Television camera - F.S.P. Hendroteau - 1934
Toboggan - Eastern First Nations People
Tracer bullets - Reginald A. Fessenden - 1914

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Washing machine - James Brown - 1835
Wireless radio - Reginald A. Fessenden - 1900
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Zipper - Gideon Sundback - 1913
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