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A gloved hand holds up a sample sheet of colourful, rubber bicycle tires from Italy, circa the 1930s.
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The science of artifact preservation: Cool storage solutions

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Caitlin Walsh
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 25, 2020
Have you ever wondered how plastics and rubbers are preserved in a museum? Find out more about our new cool storage room at the Ingenium Centre.
Insert from Jell-O recipe book showing images of syllabub, maple walnut Jell-O, cherry Jell-O, stuffed tomato salad, pineapple mouse, and marbled Jell-O. (“JELLO- 10 c A PACKAGE”)
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Agriculture
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Retro recipes: Cookbooks from the Ingenium collection

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William Knight
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 4, 2020
Conservators Erin Secord and Jessica Lafrance-Hwang noticed a lively exchange of vintage recipes on social media and suggested we share some from Ingenium’s trade literature collection.
A Thor Automagic combined dishwasher and washing machine. Anon., “Advertising – Thor Canadian Company Limited.” La Patrie, 20 November 1948, 4.
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Do Asgardians use Thor Automagics to wash their dishes and clothing?

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Rénald Fortier
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Nov 13, 2018
Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space. Today’s topic, as you undoubtedly know by now, is an unconventional dual purpose household appliance yours truly stumbled across while perusing, a virtual perusing actually, the pages of the 20 November 1948 issue of La Patrie, a daily newspaper published in Montréal, Québec. I know, I know, a combined dishwasher and washing machine has little to do with the aforementioned world of aviation and space. Still
Joust for Atari (artifact no. 2002.0384.001)
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Rising from the Grave: “Deadplay" and Video Game Preservation

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Dany Guay-Bélanger
Guest writer, Carleton University
Oct 16, 2018
Videogames are cultural heritage artifacts worthy of preservation. My Master’s major research project culminated in the creation of a podcast and website which investigates videogame preservation and proposes some solutions to this complex and pressing issue.
Electric Vehicle
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Earth & Environment
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Electric vehicles: The rise of the green machine from the 80s to today

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LTE Program Assistant
Ingenium
Jul 17, 2018
In the late 1980s, Canadians began to realize that carbon dioxide emissions, global warming, greenhouse gases, and fossil fuel emissions posed a serious problem. In response, several regional bodies began to introduce environmental policies.
THE ART OF THE BRICK
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Engineering & Technology
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Building a colourful, new life

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 14, 2018
Have you ever dreamed of ditching your day job and playing with toys instead? Nathan Sawaya—a former attorney in New York City—did just that, and he couldn’t be happier. Sawaya creates inspiring artwork from one of the most recognizable toys in the world: the LEGO® brick. An exhibition featuring his creations, THE ART OF THE BRICK, has travelled around the globe and was named one of CNN’s Top Ten “Global Must-See Exhibitions.” THE ART OF THE BRICK is coming to the Canada Science and Technology
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Researchers offer up an "a-peeling" solution to plastic wrap

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Apr 27, 2018
Did you know that Canada processes a whopping 2.86 million tonnes of potatoes a year — into things like frozen French fries, instant mashed potatoes and chips? Unfortunately, all of that processing translates into a lot of potato waste. But recently — at the University of Alberta — a team of innovative researchers found a way to put these potato processing leftovers to good use...by transforming then into a biodegradable plastic! Watch this short, educational video — developed by the Canada
An electric range
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Food
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From the Stove to the Electric Range: The Range Collection

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Louise Trottier
Ingenium
Apr 19, 2018
The Ingenium’s collection of ranges, includes a variety of appliances — fireboxes, table stoves, cooking plates, buffet stoves — and illustrates the main innovations made to these electric household cooking appliances between 1900 and 2000.
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Hawaiian pizza

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Jen Giller
Oct 10, 2017
It’s the single most popular kind of pizza in Australia and one of the most popular in the world: With its unique combination of savory ham and sweet pineapple, the Hawaiian pizza actually originated in Chatham, Ontario. “Pizza wasn’t known at all in those days,” the dish’s Greek-Canadian creator Sam Panopoulos has said. “[Not] even in Toronto. The only place you could have pizza was in Detroit,” he’s said. After immigrating to Canada in the 1930s, Panopoulos moved to Halifax, then northern
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Oct 4, 2017
The catapult to the future. Nineteen ninety-six stands as the opening year in our era of anytime-anywhere communications. That year, Mike Lazaridis unveiled the prototype of his first wireless communications device. Sure, there were all kinds of cellular phones on the market by then, but while most telecom firms and mobile carriers still focused on voice, the enterprising engineer from Waterloo, Ontario, believed people were just as eager to communicate by data. The next year, his company
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