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The cavity magnetron brought to North America in 1940. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 1969.0482

Magnetron

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The magnetron helped the Allies fight the Second World War. The magnetron gave the Allies radar superiority in the Second World War. Radar, which researchers had developed before the war, uses radio waves to detect and track objects like ships and aircraft. It works by transmitting radio waves out into the atmosphere and then reading the signals that bounce off objects in the area. These signals give operators range and bearing and, over time, let them track a moving object’s direction and speed

GlobalMedic's Rapid Response Team installs blast film in Ukraine.

GlobalMedic | Blast Film

In eastern Ukraine, GlobalMedic has delivered programs that protect vulnerable civilians affected by the ongoing conflict, through the installation of blast film on the windows of institutional buildings. The 3M™ Scotchshield™ Safety & Security Window Film saves lives in the event of an explosion by preventing glass from shattering, thereby eliminating serious and fatal injuries caused by glass projectiles. GlobalMedic has installed the film on 14 buildings along the frontline of the conflict to

Building the Alaska Highway: George Metcalf Archival Collection, Canadian War Museum 19820170-001 #13

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The Alaska Highway: Building Canadian Infrastructure Out of Wartime Necessity

Canadian War Museum

The construction of the Alaska Highway was a major feat of American and Canadian engineering that connected Dawson Creek, British Columbia and Delta Junction, Alaska. Built in just eight months, between March and November 1942, the highway was meant to strengthen the strategic position of the United States and Canada following Japan’s entry into the Second World War. This major transportation link connected Alaska and the Yukon with the South, and opened new locations to resource extraction

Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken), ca. 1916: George Metcalf Archival Collection, Canadian War Museum 20020045-1675

Sir Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook): Documenting Canada’s Wartime Experience

Canadian War Museum

Despite the enormous Canadian First World War effort, the government took a largely passive attitude to documenting the war. Luckily for Canada, and future generations, Sir Max Aitken (later Lord Beaverbrook) and Dominion Archivist Arthur Doughty successfully lobbied for better documentation and preservation of wartime activities. Aitken took it upon himself to establish the Canadian War Records Office (CWRO) in January 1916, with his own funds. The CWRO had two functions: to publicize the

Doctor Cluny Macpherson: Courtesy of The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador

Captain Cluny Macpherson: Developing Protective Equipment for Gas Warfare

Canadian War Museum

After the Germans launched the first chemical gas attack of the First World War, in April 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, Allied commanders recognized the urgent need to devise countermeasures to protect soldiers from exposure to poison gas. The Hypo helmet, a chemically treated bag that offered protection against chlorine gas, was developed later that year by Captain Cluny Macpherson, the Chief Medical Officer of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment. Worn over the head and tucked in at the neck

Wilbur Franks trying on his G-suit, 1941: Library and Archives Canada PA-063923

Dr. Wilbur Franks: Developing the G-Suit

Canadian War Museum

Dr. Frederick Banting, best known as the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of insulin, assembled a group of doctors before the Second World War, and they turned their attention to aviation medicine. In 1941, Dr. Wilbur Franks, one of those researchers at the Banting Institute, developed a flying suit reinforced with fluid channels to help pilots withstand the extreme G (gravitational) forces exerted on their bodies during air combat. When performing high-speed manoeuvres, pilots tended to lose

Second World War Nutrition Poster: Canadian War Museum 19750317-073

Canada’s Food Guide: Wartime Eating for a Healthier Postwar Population

Canadian War Museum

The first Canadian food guide, The Official Food Rules, was conceived in 1942 as a means of helping consumers navigate the difficulties of wartime rationing. If followed, the guide would ensure high nutritional standards for the men and women contributing to the war effort, decrease malnutrition associated with poverty, and improve the general health of Canadians. Scientists, medical doctors, academics and social welfare workers began working together in 1938 and eventually recommended the food

Donald Hings at work: Courtesy of the Hings family

Donald Hings: Engineering the Walkie-talkie

Canadian War Museum

Donald Hings, an engineer and inventor, equipped the Canadian and British military with an early version of the portable two-way wireless radio (walkie-talkie) during the Second World War. Hings was recognized by the Telecommunications Hall of Fame in 2006 because “his modifications of the two-way radio … which he evolved into the world’s first functional and operational walkie-talkie, saved the lives of thousands of British, Canadian and American troops during the Second World War and helped to

Model Hydrofoil: Canadian War Museum 19801222-001

Marine Transportation

HMCS Bras d’Or: Imagining a Faster Warship

Canadian War Museum

Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Bras d’Or was developed by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) for testing anti-submarine warfare technology on an ocean-going hydrofoil. A high-speed vessel, it could operate like a conventional ship, with its hull floating in the water, or travel on its wing-like foils, with its hull completely out of the water, at speeds of up to 60 knots (110 kilometres per hour). The RCN hydrofoil project had its origins in the innovative ideas of Alexander Graham Bell, who

Avro CF-105 Arrow at the roll out ceremony, October 4 1957. Source: CAVM-1763

Avro Arrow

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Avro CF-105 Arrow was the first and, so far, the only Canadian-designed supersonic aircraft. The Avro CF-105 Arrow was Canada’s first and, so far, only Canadian-designed supersonic aircraft. Developed during the Cold War in the 1950s, the Arrow was designed to intercept Soviet bombers in Canada’s Arctic airspace as they attacked North America. Avro Canada developed the massive interceptor and a wholly-new jet engine, the Iroquois. The Arrow first flew on March 25, 1958, and was among the

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