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Better beer is in the barley

Canada Foundation for Innovation

A genetic discovery in wheat may help produce superior barley and tastier beer. By Malorie Bertrand Beer foam stability and off-flavours may not be top of mind for this patio season’s revellers, but it is a concern for beer brewers. Fortunately for them, they have Surinder Singh of McGill University’s plant science department on their side. The PhD student is applying what he’s learned from a groundbreaking wheat project he worked on with CFI-funded researcher, Jaswinder Singh (not related), to

Vortex fruit basket developed by Canadian Phil Short. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 2013.0079

Vortex Fruit Basket

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Vortex Fruit Basket protects fruit and keeps it fresh. The Vortex Fruit Basket may be familiar to consumers who have enjoyed fruit stored in this packaging. Phil Short, a Niagara fruit grower and distributor, developed the Vortex Fruit Basket, which protects tender fruit, like peaches, as it travels from orchard to home. For consumers, the recyclable container guards the fruit from moisture and handling, while giving a clear view of the product. For distributors and retailers, the Vortex

Television prototype made by Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet in 1932. Source: Tom Alföldi; CSTMC 1969.1044

Television Receiver

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Television debuted in Canada in 1931. Canadian engineer Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet (1908–1988) designed and built this television set prototype in 1932, one of the first in Canada. Television had first cast its glow in the mid 1920s when Scottish engineer John Logie Baird proved that live moving images could be transmitted via radio waves. In Canada, the technology debuted on October 9, 1931. It was at this time, a full twenty years before Canadian network television was officially launched, that

New age 21 century wedge free wood/log splitter

New age 21 century wedge free wood/log splitter

My inventiveness started at age 13 when I injured my hand operating a wood/log splitter, as so many thousands of others do, every year all over the world. After my many years of in several trades and engineering jobs, I started the research needed in development of a total new idea without the use of the traditional WEDGE for log splitters. I have tried 73 different designs and the 74th was the answer to improved safety, much less power usage, frame thickness, less welding and so on. Not

The Beatty model A was Canada’s first electric washing machine with an agitator. Source: Ingenium 1968.0399

Household Technology

Beatty Washer

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Beatty electric washing machine ushered in a new era of domestic appliances.The Beatty electric washing machine ushered in a new era of domestic appliances. In the 1920s Beatty Brothers electric washing machines became the choice of households across Canada, heralding an era of electrical domestic appliances. Featuring an agitator that beat clothing, this Beatty washer represents the company’s innovative approach to manufacturing. Brothers George and Matthew Beatty founded the company in

half-tone images of photographs

Illustrated News – Half-tone Photographic Printing

Janis Nostbakken

October 30, 1869 was an eventful day in the history of publishing. The roots of photojournalism can be traced back to that date when the Canadian Illustrated News made its debut. The picture on the front page of the News was the focus of attention. The photo in itself was nothing special, but the process that put it there was extraordinary. Publisher Georges-Édouard Desbarats and his printer, William Leggo, had worked together to achieve what many others had tried but failed to do. They came up

1838 Canada Stamp

Household Technology

The World’s First Paper from Wood – Charles Fenerty

Janis Nostbakken

The story goes that sometime in the 1830s, when he was a teenager in Sackville, Nova Scotia, Charles Fenerty took a walk in the woods that would make him famous. He happened to notice some wasps chewing on wood fiber and watched as they produced a fine paper-like substance that they then used to build a nest. It was a “Eureka!” moment for Fenerty who headed for home to follow their lead. He began grinding wood into pulp to make paper. Until this time, most paper had been made from rags. But as

The Jolly Jumper

Household Technology

The Jolly Jumper

Janis Nostbakken

Patent number 568775 was issued in 1959 for a “baby supporter and exerciser” better known as the Jolly Jumper. The device was the brainchild of Susan Olivia Poole who drew upon her Ojibway roots for the design. As she was growing up, she often saw babies carried on cradle boards. When a mother was working outdoors, she could hang the board from a nearby tree branch and give it an occasional tug to begin a gentle, comforting motion. In 1910, as soon as the first of her own seven children was born

The World’s First Electric Meal

Janis Nostbakken

Dubbed the “Edison of Canada,” Thomas Ahearn was the astute businessman and prolific inventor who literally electrified Ottawa. In 1882, Ahearn and his partner, Warren Soper, lit up the city’s streets with arc lamps; in 1891, they replaced horse-drawn trams with electric street cars; and to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 their company illuminated the Parliament Buildings with thousands of lights. To promote the wonders of electricity, not to mention his own business, Ahearn

Frank Morse Robb

Household Technology

Morse Music – The World’s First Electronic Wave Organ

Janis Nostbakken

In November 1927, Morse Robb was heralded in newspaper stories as a genius for his invention of the world’s first electronic wave organ. At the age of 24, Robb had found a way to reproduce the magnificent tones of a cathedral pipe organ in an instrument that was small enough to fit in a family home. Instead of pipes, his innovation featured 12 shafts, one for each note of the chromatic scale. Sets of “tone discs” corresponding to organ stops were mounted on each shaft. The discs rotated to

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