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Frank Morse Robb

Frank Morse Robb 1902–1992

Janis Nostbakken

Like many inventors, Morse Robb began his career in science at an early age. Born in Belleville, Ontario he was a studious and creative boy constantly coming up with gadgets that often backfired: his Christmas tree light flasher gave his father a shock; he ruined a good pair of pants in an attempt to make ether; and he created a highly sensitive chemical compound that exploded with the touch of a feather. But his puttering eventually paid off. By the time he was 11, Robb invented several

Household Technology

Cleaning Up with Bissell

Janis Nostbakken

One day Nova Scotia-born Anna Bissell asked her husband Melville to find an easier way to clean the floors of their Michigan crockery shop. The result? The world’s best-known carpet sweeper. Patented in 1876, the Bissell was soon cleaning up across the country and ultimately around the world. Even Queen Victoria once commanded that Buckingham Palace carpets be “bisselled.” When Melville died in 1889, Anna became America’s first female corporate CEO and ran the multi-million dollar Bissell

Elizabeth Arden

Household Technology

Inventor of the American Beauty Industry

Janis Nostbakken

Elizabeth Arden is credited with introducing North American women to eye make-up, a concept almost unheard of in the early 1900s. She is also renowned for making the wearing of cosmetics respectable at a time when only stage performers and women of “ill-repute” indulged. Arden invented a number of skin products, including foundation to match skin tones, and a softening cream originally developed for her famous race horses. Some fashion historians contend that the American beauty industry itself

Household Technology

Paint Brush on Wheels

Janis Nostbakken

HOW TO PAINT A CEILING PRE-1940 Take a paint brush in your right hand, or your left hand if you are left-handed, or both hands if it is a big brush. Dip the brush into a can of paint and raise it above your head, being careful not to let the paint roll down your arm. Dab it on the ceiling, repeat the process hundreds of times. Then—take a bath. Before the advent of the paint roller in 1940, decorating a room – especially the ceiling – took a lot of time, paint and patience. And it was messy

Household Technology

Even the Kitchen Sink

Janis Nostbakken

Pre-1948, the typical kitchen sink was made of cast-iron coated in baked enamel that chipped and stained easily. Harry Galley, who had been in the nickel business for a couple of decades, knew there had to be a better option. Stainless steel seemed to fill the bill: lightweight, durable and easy to clean. Other designers had created one-of-a-kind sinks from stainless, but no one had successfully found a method of mass production. Galley discovered a way of using newly improved tooling techniques

Alfred C. Fuller

Household Technology

Alfred C. Fuller

Janis Nostbakken

Alfred C. Fuller 1885-1973 Alfred was born into a large farming family in Welsford, Nova Scotia. At the age of 18 he decided to seek his fortune in the big city and moved in with an older sister living in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there, in a crude basement workshop next to the coal bin in his sister’s home, that Alfred began developing products specially designed to clean Victorian households. His first inventions included a sweeper made to work without scratching floors, a spittoon cleaner

Jeff Dahn - 2016 Governor General's Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Dr. Jeff Dahn is Canada’s most distinguished scientist in the field of advanced atteries. Jeff Dahn and his dedicated team of researchers have pioneered the method of high-precision coulometry to rank the life span of Li-ion cells in a few weeks of testing. Not only has this development allowed researchers worldwide to speed up the R&D process and create a better and longer-lasting Li-ion cell, but it will also contribute to the switch of our energy

One of the first Rogers “Battery Less” radios, made in 1925. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 1969.0710

Household Technology

Rogers Radio Receiver

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

When it was launched in Canada in 1925, the Rogers “Battery Less” radio receiver transformed radio listening. Instead of using heavy batteries, the radio drew power from an alternating current (AC) power source, the first radio to successfully do so. This switch became possible when Edward (Ted) Rogers Sr of Toronto perfected a vacuum tube that could run on a home’s AC electrical system. Rogers’s tube produced a clean sound and it also eliminated complicated wiring and potential leaks from the

Illustrations of caulking guns in the 1960 Caverhill, Learmont & Co., Limited Wholesale Hardware catalogue - provided by the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation.

The Caulking gun

Stephen Sedgwick-Williams

Though you might not think about it too much, the caulking gun is an important part of your world. Historically, caulk has been used for everything from making sure that the tiles in your bathroom don’t leak into your floorboards, to putting ships together. It’s hard to imagine a world where it wasn’t easily applied through the use of a caulking gun, but about 130 years ago it was much harder to apply. In 1894, Canadian inventor Theodore Witte of Chilliwack, British Columbia filed a patent for

Radio, Receiver Source: Ingenium [Artifact no. 2001.0320.001]

Business & Economics

Radio, Receiver Source: CSTMC/SMSTC [Artifact no. 2001.0320.001]

Early Life Ted Rogers and his passion for radio technology and communications built the foundation for today’s renowned company, Rogers Communications. Edward Samuel Rogers, known as Ted Rogers, was born on June 21, 1900, in Toronto, Ontario. Passion for Radio At the age of 11, he became fascinated with radio after seeing his first receiver. Just two years later, he was already being recognized in the community as a skilled radio operator after transmitting signals with one of the first licensed

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