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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A AC radio tube - Edward Samuel Rogers - 1925 B Basketball - James Naismith - 1891 C Chocolate bar - Arthur Ganong - 1910 Commercial motion picture - Clifford Sifton - 1903 Compound steam engine - Benjamin Franklin Tibbetts (1813-1853) - 1842 E 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 F Frozen food - Dr. Archibald Hunstman - 1929 H Hydrofoil boats - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin I Insulin Process - Drs. Fredrick Banting, J.J. Macleod, Best, Collip - 1921 K Kayak - Inuit Kerosene - Dr. Abraham Gesner L Lacrosse - Iroquois and the Huron Lawn Sprinkler - Elijiah McCoy M Macpherson gas mask - Dr. Cluny Macpherson - 1915 Mcintosh Apple (the fruit) - John McIntosh - 1796 N Newsprint - Charles Fenerty (1821-1892) - 1838 O Odometer - Samuel McKeen - 1854 Oil-electric locomotive - Samuel J. Hungerford - 1929 P Paint roller - Norman Breakey - 1940 Panoramic picture camera - John Connon - 1887 Phonograph/gramophone - Alexander Graham Bell and Emile Berliner R Railway car break - George B. Dorey - 1913 Rust-resistant red fife wheat - David Fife - 1843 S 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 T 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 W Washing machine - James Brown - 1835 Wireless radio - Reginald A. Fessenden - 1900 Z Zipper - Gideon Sundback - 1913 |
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