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Innovation Storybook

This board features articles that were originally written and submitted as part of a Canada 150 Project, the Innovation Storybook, to crowdsource stories of Canadian innovation with partners across Canada. The content has since been migrated to Ingenium’s Channel, a digital hub featuring curated content related to science, technology and innovation.

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Engineering & Technology

New Gecko Gripper can be used in manufacturing and medicine

University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo engineers used the gecko for inspiration when inventing a device with potential applications in fields including advanced manufacturing and medicine. More than 10 years after he began studying geckos - small lizards known for their unique climbing abilities - professor of chemical engineering Boxin Zhao and three colleagues recently developed what they call a Gecko Gripper to pick up, move and put down objects. They are now working to commercialize their technology, which

Team Waterloop members working on their Hyperloop pod, the Goose 1.

Rail Transportation

Waterloop competed in SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Challenge as the only Canadian team

University of Waterloo

Waterloop - a student design team building a commuter pod to one day take you from Toronto to Montreal in 30 minutes - tested their prototype at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition in January 2017. They competed against 23 finalists from around the world including the Massechusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. About 150 students from all six of the University of Waterloo’s faculties have contributed to the Waterloop team. Architectural

Daniel David Palmer, the Father of Chiropractic

Health & Wellness

A Canadian Invented Chiropractic Care

Janis Nostbakken

Look up the word “chiropractic” in a dictionary and you might think it was a form of medicine practiced in ancient Greece. Not so, at least not by that name. The word does come from the Greek (cheir “hand” + praktikos “practical”), but it was a Canadian who invented it. Daniel David (D.D.) Palmer was born in Port Perry, Canada West (now Ontario) in 1845. By the time he was 20, D.D. had emigrated to the U.S. where he first encountered a “magnetic healer,” one who claimed to cure illness by

Dr. Breault received his M.D. from Western University in 1936.

Child-Proof Container

Janis Nostbakken

Dr. Henri J. Breault, a pediatrician in Windsor, Ontario is credited with saving the lives of countless children around the world. By the time he opened the Poison Control Centre at Hotel Dieu Hospital in 1957, he had treated all too many cases of children who had been accidentally poisoned. There were more than 100,000 incidents a year across Canada alone, and some of them were fatal. Breault initiated a vigorous public education campaign in an attempt to decrease that number, but when his

The ATLAS Tier-1 data collection centre at TRIUMF.

Engineering & Technology

A Great Leap in High-Speed Data

In the current age of international collaborations and global connections, quick and accessible data is in high demand. This is especially true for ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS), a particle collision detector and collaboration run by scientists from 38 different countries around the world. TRIUMF (Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science), has developed groundbreaking digital infrastructure to enable ATLAS to share its data faster, and in

Unraveling the Proton Radius Puzzle

In physics, there are fundamental quantities that have been so well studied that they are considered “known”. However, in the true spirit of science, researchers revisit these “known” quantities with new and improved techniques. From time to time, these new and enhanced methods show that maybe the “known” quantity wasn’t so well known after all. The size of the proton is one such quantity. A proton is a subatomic particle found in atomic nuclei. After decades of experiments devoted to analyzing

Photo credit: Suzanna Rushton, Global Physics Photowalk 2015

Down the Rabbit Line - Transporting Medical Isotopes

Medical isotopes have become powerful tools in the fight against disease, allowing researchers and doctors to visualize and treat illnesses with unprecedented accuracy and efficacy. However, the very mechanism that makes radioisotopes so useful, radioactive decay, poses serious obstacles for supply management systems. Depending on the half-life of the particular isotope, medical isotope compounds can lose their effectiveness in a matter of hours. TRIUMF, Canada’s National laboratory for particle

accelerator mass spectrometer

Engineering & Technology

How the accelerator mass spectrometer works

Canada Foundation for Innovation

Discover the process for analyzing trace isotopes in regular carbon atoms. What makes an accelerator mass spectrometer capable of analyzing a trace isotope like radiocarbon, which is present in the environment at one-million-millionth the concentration of regular carbon atoms? How is it able to distinguish between two atoms that have virtually identical mass? Ian Clark, professor of Earth sciences at the University of Ottawa, explains how it all works. This video is part of a feature story about

Igloo - Photo courtesy of Ingenium

Engineering & Technology

Igloo

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The ingenious structure. Engineers and architects have found few structures more intriguing than the traditional home of the Inuit peoples of Canada. As old as human civilization itself, the igloo is ideal for several reasons. Perfect in composition, an igloo is made up entirely of the substance most abundant in Canada’s North—snow. Hard-packed snow cut into bricks—three feet by two feet by four inches thick—form the igloo’s structure. After the first row of snow blocks has been placed, several

Peanut - Science Photo Library/Shutterstock.com

Peanut Butter

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The protein substitute. Step aside, George Washington Carver. Contrary to almost universal belief, the celebrated American botanist didn’t create peanut butter. The stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth glory goes to Marcellus Gilmore Edson. In 1884, the Quebec chemist was awarded the first patent for peanut butter—or peanut-candy, as it was called then. Marcellus discovered it when he found that heating the surfaces to grind peanuts to 100 degrees Fahrenheit caused crushed peanuts to emerge as a

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