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An image of the Bloodhound SSC rocket car

Engineering & Technology

Bloodhound Diary: Learning from the past

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

This article is written by Andy Green, the world land speed record holder, and the driver of the Bloodhound SSC; the car that will attempt to reach 1,000 mph sometime in 2018. In this article, Green gives a quick overview of the engineering work that's been done so far as they design the car that will push the limits.

Road Transportation

The Oldsmobile - a Relic of Canada's Car Manufacturing History

St. Catharines Museum

The car we have on display in the St. Catharines’ museum is representative of the automotive industry in St. Catharines, as it is the first style of car built in the City and was manufactured in the first plant in Canada designed and built specifically for automobile manufacturing. Packard electric built this car on license from Oldsmobile for the distribution in Canada and the British Empire. The Packard Electric co. re-located to St. Catharines in order to take advantage of the close proximity

Courtesy of Ingenium

Road Transportation

Ski-doo

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The typo that became a sport. The end of World War Two dealt Armand Bombardier’s snowmobile company a double whammy. The first was obvious and expected: contracts to supply Allied governments with specialized military vehicles halted abruptly. The second wasn’t anticipated; governments in Quebec – both provincial and municipal – began clearing snow from roads in wintertime. Ploughed streets and highways throughout the province meant professionals who had once relied on snowmobiles to go from

Courtesy of Ingenium

Road Transportation

Dump Truck

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The quick spill. Perhaps the greatest time-saver for the modern labourer is– of all things– the good ol’ dump truck. Think about it. Instead of needing a group of strong backs to shovel a big load of dirt or gravel or whatever out of the box of a truck, the dump truck just, well, dumps it. Credit for the first one goes to Robert Mawhinney. In 1920, the Saint John New Brunswicker put together a truck equipped with a special dump box in back. The dump box was fitted with a mast, cable, and winch

Zhongwei Chen: Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy and member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy

Earth & Environment

Waterloo researcher leading the charge for next-generation battery

University of Waterloo

A research team at the University of Waterloo has developed silicon technology for a cheaper, more powerful battery for everything from smartphones to electric cars. The race to build a better battery has drawn in some of the world’s biggest innovators — notably billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who is one of the players in the global drive to invent a low-cost, powerful battery to fuel the next-generation of electric cars. Now, a Waterloo team, that already has several patents for its silicon battery

Left to right: Alex Rodrigues, Brandon Moak and Michael Skupien of Varden Labs

Road Transportation

A Canadian first: Self-driving vehicle circles University of Waterloo campus

University of Waterloo

Two University of Waterloo engineering students completed an Enterprise Co-op term by creating the first autonomous vehicle to drive on a Canadian road. Michael Skupien and Alex Rodrigues, founders of Varden Labs, developed the autonomous shuttle during an e-co-op term, a signature program run through Waterloo’s Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre. In e-co-op, students launch businesses while earning a co-operative education credit. Both Skupien and Rodrigues completed their

Team Waterloop members working on their Hyperloop pod, the Goose 1.

Rail Transportation

Waterloop competed in SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Challenge as the only Canadian team

University of Waterloo

Waterloop - a student design team building a commuter pod to one day take you from Toronto to Montreal in 30 minutes - tested their prototype at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition in January 2017. They competed against 23 finalists from around the world including the Massechusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. About 150 students from all six of the University of Waterloo’s faculties have contributed to the Waterloop team. Architectural

Florence Lawrence

Social Science & Culture

A Movie Star’s Big Brake

Janis Nostbakken

Florence Lawrence was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1886 and died in Hollywood in 1938 after starring in more than 200 films. Her gravestone is marked with the title The First Movie Star in recognition of her important role in Hollywood history. In an era when on-screen credits were rare, she was the first film actress to be known by name and the first product of the “star system.” Florence became wealthy enough to own one of the first automobiles in California. In 1914, long before brake lights

The 1961 Meteor Montcalm. Source: Ingenium 2008.0001

Road Transportation

Meteor Montcalm

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Meteor Montcalm was a stylish car with distinctively Canadian branding. Sold under the Ford Motor Company’s Mercury line, the Meteor debuted in 1949 and was available only in Canada. By 1954, the Meteor came in several models with names that reflected Canadian geography and history. Consumers could choose among the basic Meteor or the more upscale Meteor Niagara and Meteor Rideau. In 1959, Mercury added the Montcalm, a car with a unique grill, luxurious interior finishes, and two engine

Henry Seth Taylor with his steam buggy, ca 1867. Source: Colby-Curtis Museum, Stanstead, Quebec

Road Transportation

Henry Seth Taylor Steam Carriage

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Henry Seth Taylor beat Henry Ford by about 30 years with a Canadian-made “steam pleasure carriage.” The first automobile built in Canada was a “steam pleasure carriage” that watchmaker Henry Seth Taylor assembled in Stanstead, Quebec. Taylor was a skilled artisan and loved to build things, and decided to make a steam carriage after seeing an American model in action. Using his metal-working skills, he crafted the carriage’s two-cylinder engine and driving mechanism while a local blacksmith

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