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Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback
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Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback- Inventor of the First Modern Zipper

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Jun 30, 2017
Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback 1880-1954 Swedish-born and raised, Gideon Sundback received his technical education as an electrical engineer in Germany. He emigrated to America in 1905 and the following year began to work on a solution to problems with the hook and eye fastener. Various improvements were devised including the Plako (introduced 1908), Hookless #1 (the first ‘hookless’ fastener- 1912), and Hookless #2- the modern zipper (1913). Hookless #2 was the design concept upon which future
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Whoopee Cushion

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Jun 29, 2017
The new sound of novelty. A new sound: that’s all a novelty item needed to become a raging sensation in the late 1920s. Companies offered a wide variety of devices that emitted strange sounds when squeezed–some a child’s scream, others a cat’s screech. Experimenting with sheets of rubber, employees of the JEM Rubber Company in Toronto hit upon a different sound. The noise that emanated from their little rubber pillow was a tad more, now shall we put it, indelicate. American novelty purveyor
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Snowblower

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Jun 28, 2017
The return of the open road. Of all the Canadian efforts to overcome the restrictions of cold weather, the innovation of Arthur Sicard of Saint-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice, Quebec, may have made the most difference. Sicard hatched an idea back in 1894 when just eighteen years old, but it wasn’t till he was almost fifty that he found the time to produce a prototype. He called it la dénégeuse et souffleuse à neige Sicard, or the Sicard Snow Remover Snowblower. The device combined a four-wheel-drive
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Baggage Tag

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Jun 27, 2017
The traceable luggage. Even the simplest innovations need to start somewhere. Consider the humble baggage tag. In the early years of rail travel – 1882 to be exact – John Michael Lyons of Moncton, New Brunswick, came up with the idea of baggage handlers writing each passenger’s name, departure point, and destination on a separate tag. Each tag would then be torn in two, with the top portion attached to the passenger’s bag and the bottom portion kept by the passenger. This simple system made it
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Wringer Washer

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Jun 27, 2017
The first home appliance. Machines to wash clothes have been around since at least 1791. Yet the washing machine as we know it today can be traced to 1843. In that year, John Turnbull of Saint John, New Brunswick, added a wringer to a washing machine. The top roll of his wringer washer was spring-loaded to rise and fall to accomodate the thickness of the laundry running through the rolls. This mechanism, activated by turning a crank, meant continuous pressure was applied to wet clothes to
Thomas “Carbide” Wilson
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Thomas “Carbide” Wilson: Prolific Inventor and Father of Carbide

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Jun 26, 2017
Thomas “Carbide” Wilson was born in 1860 to a struggling farming family in Princeton, Upper Canada. When Thomas was 14, his father died, and his mother worked hard teaching guitar and painting lessons to put her children through school. Lucky for her, Thomas would soon become a prolific inventor and forever change the history of industry. At the young age of 21, Thomas showed great intellectual promise by patenting electric arc lighting. As a result of his invention, in 1881, some shops and
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Canada is leading innovation in Virtual Reality video. 360VR, portal navigation, free education and tourism experiences for VR devices using 360video content.

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Jun 24, 2017
I innovate with VR video. I made this for Canada’s 150th Coast to Coast in 360Video I’ve always had an interest in electronics, optics, videography, biology and psychology. After obtaining a degree in Video Systems Integration, I spent most of my life working for the video telecom industry. Designing,improving and troubleshooting internet and video systems to keep pace with the advances in technology. I also work as an innovator and researcher in my free time, and for the 5 years leading up to
Audra Renyi
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Audra Renyi - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

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Jun 15, 2017
Audra Renyi is the executive director of the non-profit World Wide Hearing and the founder of earAccess. She has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street dealing with private equity firms. Ms. Renyi has worked with Doctors Without Borders, in Chad; in Rwanda she served as the CFO of the One Acre Fund, and she worked as director of development at Canada World Youth. World Wide Hearing Foundation uses affordable technology, market incentives and rapid training to help underprivileged people
How the Canada Science and Technology Museum designed an accessible, modular headphone jack
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How the Canada Science and Technology Museum designed an accessible, modular headphone jack

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May 1, 2017
Accessible headphone jacks aren’t hard to find nowadays, but they’re always built into your average neighbourhood fixtures, like an ATM. This isn’t the most welcoming design since there’s no way to get the device as a standalone product. But the Canada Science and Technology Museum strives for inclusive design, and since they couldn’t buy an accessible headphone jack, their innovators decided to design their own. These jacks are shaped in a way that makes inserting headphones into them much
Synthesizing Insulin in Canada
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Synthesizing Insulin in Canada

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Apr 12, 2017
Synthesized insulin is a hormone used by 300 million people around the world to treat diseases like diabetes. But few people know that it was first recreated in our nation’s capital by the late Indo-Canadian scientist, Dr. Saran Narang. To do this, Narang and his team at the National Research Council used a process called recombinant DNA. DNA is a complex molecule that serves as instructions for cells to create proteins in an organism. Since all life is composed of proteins, DNA acts as
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