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Table-top instrument featuring a small 10-key keyboard made of wood and ivory and ten cylindrical resonators made of brass. All are mounted on a wooden base.

Sounds of the Past and Insights for the Future: How Museum Artifacts Can Inspire Musical Creativity

Maryam Soufisiavash

University of Alberta

I joined Ingenium last Fall as the 2022-23 Research Fellow in Sound and Science, working with curators and international researchers on a database project called Sound and Science: a Database for Sources on the History of Acoustics. As a pianist, I have always had an interest in the study of sound; however, this project led me to re-evaluate, reconsider, and think more creatively about the acoustic elements of the different instruments I play and the different performance spaces I perform in

Overhead shot of the reconstructed instrument with the control surface opened up, showing various wires and electronic modules located beneath.

Uncovering the secrets of the world’s first synthesizer (Part II)

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Seventy-five years ago, Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine began work on a strange, new musical instrument with an equally strange name: the Electronic Sackbut. While you may not have heard of the Electronic Sackbut before, you’ve almost certainly heard of the ubiquitous musical instrument it pioneered: the synthesizer. This is part two of an ongoing Channel series that follows Ingenium’s reconstruction of the 1948 Electronic Sackbut, better known as the world’s first synthesizer. Today we’ll look

A dirty glass slide of a stromatolite with a dirty cotton swab at the bottom; a close-up on a bee with a green head and thorax on a yellow flower; a false colour 3D view of the surface of Venus showing volcanoes and lava flowing towards the foreground.

3 Things you should know about how native bees are important pollinators, how saliva is used to clean artifacts, and active volcanism on Venus

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Collectively, our experts explain how saliva is an effective cleaning agent for art and artifacts, how wild native bees are essential for pollination, and how evidence of volcanic activity has been found on the planet Venus.

A close up of prison bars through which a hallway can be seen.

Captive Labour

Camilla Leonelli Calzado

Toronto Metropolitan University

In November 2022, we curated an exhibition called Captive Labour at the Catalyst, an event space on the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) campus. The exhibition highlighted historical and current labour programs within the Canadian penitentiary system and was inspired by artifacts in TMU’s Fashion Research Collection. These objects were transferred from Ingenium’s collection in 2020. Ingenium still maintains a number of artifacts from the Kingston Penitentiary in its collection.

A large impact crater viewed from the rim, a woodern spoon full of small yellow grains, a close up of a forearm being tattooed.

3 things you should know about the untapped potential of millet, the permanence of tattoos, and asteroid airbursts

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the February edition, they explain why millet might be a super crop in the future, why tattoos are permanent, and what happens when an asteroid explodes before impact.

A bushplane, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. A new text panel sits in front of the aircraft: a gray structure with wood-tone side panels and dark metal legs. Its backlit surface presents the name of the aircraft, a selection of images, and interpretive texts. A life-size display of a dock sits to the right, followed by another aircraft and panel.

Whispering Loudly: An Update about the “Quiet Updates”

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Small changes can add up to big results! The look-and-feel at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum is evolving. See how “Quiet Updates” are making an impact.

Colourful Eckert IV map projection generated by AI

Art to Critically Examine AI & Robotics

University of Ottawa, and adjunct curator with Ingenium

The CRAiEDL STEAM Collective invites you to experience two artworks while asking yourself how they might challenge your pre-existing understanding of the topics and technologies they interrogate...

The Shell By-Plane X 100 Astroterramare of Professor Septimus Urge (far right), Pleasure Gardens of the Festival of Britain, Battersea Park, London, England. Anon., “New British Jet Unique, but Not Matchless.” Aviation Week, 18 August 1952, 44.

Heath Robinson / Rube Goldberg machines that Heath Robinson and “Rube” Goldberg themselves would have approved of; Or, The wonderful world of Frederick Rowland Emett and his things

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Greetings, my reading friend. How are you this week? May I offer you the caption of the photographs you just saw, my reading… Err, why the puzzled look? Please do not tell me that the names Heath Robinson and / or “Rube” Goldberg do not ring a bell. It is too early in the day for such a shocking revelation. Sigh… What do children learn in school these days? You do realise that, by forcing me to explain who William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) and Reuben Garrett Lucius “Rube” Goldberg (1883-1970)

Sophie working with a series of toaster artifacts placed on a worktable.

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Household Technology

A Toast to the Collection: The History of Toasters in Canada

Sophie Nakashima

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A typical Tillson Company Limited advertisement. Anon. “Tillson Company Limited.” The Canadian Grocer & General Storekeeper, 13 May 1892, 19.

“A Food, not a Fad:” The life and times of Edwin Delevan Tillson of Tillsonburg, Ontario

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Yours truly would like to begin this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee with an apology. Contrary to the gentlepersons agreement agreed to many moons ago, I did not include an agricultural topic among those published in April 2022 in said blog / bulletin / thingee. I hereby remedy this failure on my part with what follows. Please rest assured that the what follows in question is actually quite interesting. Really. Edwin Delevan Tillson was born in March 1825, in Normandale, Upper Canada

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