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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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Snowmobile B12 of her Majesty's postal service, ca. 1940.

Road Transportation

Bombardier B-7 Snowmobile

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Joseph-Armand Bombardier’s idea for the snowmobile grew out of family tragedy. Impassable winter roads prevented him from taking his son to hospital, and the infant died of peritonitis. In 1935, Bombardier built a prototype that ran on caterpillar tracks like those used on military tanks. Two years later, he patented a sprocket wheel and track drive system to build the B-7, a seven passenger covered snowmobile. The B-7 became popular with country doctors and veterinarians, as well as for postal

Fred and Bill Streich with Roto Thresh

Roto Thresh Combine Harvester

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A fresh way to thresh — Manitoba farmers put a “revolutionary spin” on combine design The Roto Thresh was the first combine harvester to use a spinning drum to separate grain from chaff and straw. Rotary separation is now common in combine harvesters, but in the 1950s when Manitoba farmers William Streich, Frederick Streich, and Frank McBain built their first prototype, it was an innovative departure. The “sieveless chaffer,” as it was first called, underwent further development through the

Boys sitting on top of telephone booths, ca.1950. Toronto, Ontario.

Hand Telephone

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

“Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.” With these words to assistant Thomas Watson (in the next room) on March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first ever telephone call. Bell solved the problem of turning human speech into electrical impulses, and converting them back into audible speech. Brantford, Ontario: First Long Distance Tests While Bell made this first call in his Boston laboratory, the first tests over long distances were made in August 1876 over telegraph wires near his

Prebus and Hillier with microscope

Engineering & Technology

Electron Microscope

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

North America’s First Electron Microscope The sub-microscopic world became visible in 1938 when Canadian graduate students Albert Prebus and James Hillier revealed North America’s first electron microscope. With a 20,000-power magnification, the microscope transcended the limits of light-based microscopy and brought otherwise invisible structures and objects into sharp focus. A massive discovery on a microscopic level Prebus and Hillier were members of the University of Toronto’s physics

Dehavilland Canada Beaver

De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A dam good aircraft, the Beaver is a model bush plane: hard-working, reliable, and rugged. The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is one of Canada’s most successful aircraft — almost 1,700 Beavers were made and sold around the world between 1947 and 1968, more than any other Canadian aircraft. The Beaver was designed in consultation with bush pilots, who asked for a short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft with a large cargo capacity. De Havilland engineers responded with an all-metal airplane with high

RIM 950 Blackberry Pager Source: Ingenium 2000.0012

Business & Economics

RIM 950 BlackBerry® Pager

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Thumb Typing Makes its Debut The RIM 950 BlackBerry® pager accelerated Internet communications when it was introduced in 1999. Featuring a unique keyboard layout, the handheld device functioned as a pager, email device, and personal organizer. Suddenly, people were furiously thumb-typing on their devices, which made a distinctive click-clack sound. Incorporating a wireless modem, the BlackBerry® pager was always “on,” which allowed users to receive messages on the go without having to dial into

The 6400 locomotive hauling the Royal Tour Train, May 1939. London, Ontario.

Rail Transportation

CN 6400

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Royal Tour 1939 CN 6400 achieved the peak of its fame in 1939 when it carried King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on the Royal Tour across Canada and then went on display at the “World of Tomorrow,” the New York World’s Fair. The Face of Modern Rail Travel: Sleek and Streamlined Manufactured at the Montreal Locomotive Works for Canadian National Railways (CNR) in 1936, this steam locomotive featured a semi-streamlined body — designed by National Research Council of Canada engineers — and a state

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