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Dr. Roger Tomlinson
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Google Maps Was Born In The Wild

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McGill University
Feb 12, 2016
In the 1960s, a geographer named Roger Tomlinson was surveying potential sites for a paper mill in Kenya. He needed to consider the locations of monkey populations and elephant migration routes, topography and soil types, and he developed a computer application that would save him the headache of logging all the landscape features manually. He took the resulting technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) home to Canada, where he worked with the Canadian government to use GIS to map the
George Klein - Inventor
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Electric Wheelchair

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National Research Council Canada
Nov 2, 2015
An invention of Canada’s National Research Council – created over 50 years ago to assist injured war veterans – has helped thousands of paralyzed people around the world regain a sense of mobility. NRC designed the world’s first practical electric wheelchair for quadriplegics, and it quickly drew international attention. The prototype, considered one of the most significant artifacts in Canadian innovation history, is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. At the time
Snowmobile B12 of her Majesty's postal service, ca. 1940.
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Bombardier B-7 Snowmobile

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Apr 28, 2015
Joseph-Armand Bombardier’s idea for the snowmobile grew out of family tragedy. Impassable winter roads prevented him from taking his son to hospital, and the infant died of peritonitis. In 1935, Bombardier built a prototype that ran on caterpillar tracks like those used on military tanks. Two years later, he patented a sprocket wheel and track drive system to build the B-7, a seven passenger covered snowmobile. The B-7 became popular with country doctors and veterinarians, as well as for postal
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