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Elaine visits the Moving Stories exhibition, with daughter Jamie Wolfe Phillips, husband Jim Phillips, and daughter Emily Wolfe Phillips.

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Honouring an innovator who gave others the “gift of freedom”

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Ottawa resident Elaine Wolfe was undoubtedly thinking about her late father, Clifford Wolfe, as she visited the Moving Stories exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum last week. The temporary exhibition – which showcases some rarely-seen artifacts from the museum’s transportation collection – includes Elaine’s 1988 Chevy Blazer, outfitted with an innovative wheelchair lift that was invented by her dad when she was a young adult. “Calling my first truck an artifact is making me

A typical Innocenti Lambretta scooter. Anon. “Advertising – Bentley’s Cycles and Sports Limited.” Le Petit Journal, 10 August 1958, 110.

Road Transportation

Innocentis abroad: The beautiful stories of the Lambretta scooters

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Good day / buongiorno / bonjour, my reading friend. You may wonder what a scooter lifted off the pages of the 10 August 1958 issue of a Montréal, Québec, weekly, Le Petit Journal, is doing in our blog / bulletin / thingee. I respectfully respond to this observation by pointing out that there is more to life than airplanes. This being said (typed?), the subject that concerns us this week has a small aeronautical element, but enough twaddle, let us move into the heart of the matter. Allied to

Electric vehicle charging station in Quebec, Canada.

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Gas Crisis of the 1970's spurs Electric Vehicle Research and Development

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Sun through clouds over lake

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Searching for the sublime: Algonquin Park and the origins of wilderness tourism

In the late 1800s, Canadian cities were in the process of a major transition due to great population increases, industrialization and a growing middle class. Toronto was no exception, and in terms of its population size and industrial production, was second only to Montreal in these years.

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Electric vehicles: The rise of the green machine from the 80s to today

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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.

Using a mechanic’s stethoscope, more specifically a Motor Stethoscope, to pinpoint a problem in the engine of an automobile. “Advertising – Motor Stethoscope Company.” Air, June 1928, 43.

Road Transportation

An indispensable device for locating sounds caused by defects

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello there, my reading friend. Are you ready to be submerged by waves of pontificating prose? That’s too bad because you will not get that today. Yours truly was sure there was plenty of information on the mechanic’s stethoscope we just saw in an ad published in the June 1928 issue of a long forgotten magazine, the British monthly Air. Sadly enough, I struck out. So, let’s go over the basics. Back in the 1910s and 1920s, listening to a misbehaving piece of machinery was one of the most

A Portec RMC Hurricane Jet Snow Blower operated by the New York City Transit Authority, Coney Island, New York, January 2014. New York City Transit Authority.

Hold on to your shovel, it’s time to clear the snow!, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. Are we ready for more mind blowing stories of jet-powered snow removal? Why the puzzled look? Don’t you know that, until recently if not until now, some organisations on North American and / or European soil were still using these ear shattering devices? New York Central Railroad Company, for example, put its first device of this type in service in 1960-61. The General Electric J47 jet engine of this in house design came from a recently retired Convair B-36

This truck equipped with a Klimov RD-45 or VK-1 turbojet engine was one of the many vehicles used for snow clearance at Vnukovo international airport, Moscow, early 1958. W.E. Casley, “Bea-line to Moscow.” The Aeroplane, 4 April 1958, 470.

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Hold on to your shovel, it’s time to clear the snow!, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

To quote Princess Irulan, a minor character from the rather disappointing 1984 science fiction movie Dune, a beginning is a very delicate time. Should yours truly begin this article with the vehicle shown in the photo above, extracted from the pages of the weekly The Aeroplane, one of the great British aviation magazines of the 20th century, or should I go the beginning and move from there? Decision, decision. Many people who know me know only too well how much I love making decisions. Oh well

The mystery car at the heart of this article, Montréal, Québec, late 1937. Its owners, R. Gélinas and G. Duhamel, are standing beside it. Anon., “Voici une cadillac [sic] d’il y a près de 40 ans!” Photo-Journal, 9 December 1937, 3.

Road Transportation

From the top of this seat, 30 years are watching you

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello there, my reading friend, and welcome to the merry, merry month of December. Our topic this time around will be brief, yes brief. You do not believe me, now do you? Well, read on. Our story, say I, comes to us courtesy of a weekly from Montréal, Québec, Photo-Journal. And yes, there is a typo in the title of the article published 80 years ago this month. The word Cadillac should be spelled with a C, not a c. That, of course, is not the reason yours truly chose this story for our blog /

Meet an Innovator: Baran Faber, BassBus

Can art and transportation have a symbiotic relationship? The BassBus team creatively answers that question. This incredible vehicle serves Calgary and beyond as everything from mobile stage and music venue to a roving DJ sound system, and even a community art exhibition space. In this video presented by TELUS Spark, Baran Faber, Co-Founder and President of BassBus, shares stories about the innovative design and programming of BassBus. To learn more about BassBus, visit www.bassbus.ca.

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