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Henry Joseph Piraux, a French electrical engineer employed by the Société anonyme Philips, with his electric dog, Salon international de la T.S.F., Paris, France. René Bruyez, “Le Salon international.” Lumière et Radio, 10 October 1929, 8.

Engineering & Technology

Do electric dogs dream of high voltage treats? Henry Joseph Piraux and his late 1920s cybernetic canid

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to yet another December 2024 issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. Given the time of year, yours truly decided yet again to break away from our anniversarial tradition in order to bring you this topic, a topic which fell by the wayside when I miscalculated the length of not one, but two October 2024 articles (3 parts instead of 2 and 4 parts instead of 3). Oops… Are we ready? And yes, my reading friend, I once again intend to be brief today. Very brief

A composite image of a clog hanging out of a wastewater pipe, a caribou with antlers, and a lightning storm over a city.

3 things you should know about antlers, what you should be flushing down the toilet, and electron rain

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the December edition, explore what antlers can tell us about Santa's reindeer, what you shouldn't be flushing down your toilets this holiday season, and how lightning on earth can cause electron rain in space.

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3 Things you should know about new energy technologies, human-influenced mineral formation, and the versatile uses of mushrooms

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

Meet Michelle Campbell Mekarski, Renée-Claude Goulet, and Gordon Bardell. Michelle and Renée-Claude are two of Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to the Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, respectively. Guest contributor Gordon Bardell is a science communications intern at the Canada Science and Technology Museum and the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. He is filling in this month for Cassandra

Three images side by side: a toilet bowl expelling a cloud of droplets, a gloved hand holding a test tube containing a small plant, and an infrared view of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io showing spots of volcanic activity covering the moon.

3 things you should know about flushing the toilet, artificial photosynthesis, and volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the January edition, they explain why you should close the toilet lid before flushing, how we could grow plants without light, and extended volcanic activity on Jupiter's moon Io.

A very appropriate piece of equipment given the season, well, the season which affects the northern part of the northern hemisphere of planet Earth, the domestic / home snowblower of Autocanner Registered of Montréal, Québec. Anon., “–.” Montréal-Matin, 9 January 1948, 6.

Household Technology

“Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!” The Blo-All domestic / home snowblower of Autocanner Registered of Montréal, Québec

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Happy New Year, my reading friend. And yes, our topic this week is a domestic / home snowblower, a very appropriate piece of equipment given the season, well, the season which affects the northern part of the northern hemisphere of planet Earth, and a demonstration of my unwavering will to be briefer in 2023. Before going any further, allow me to quote, in translation, the caption which accompanied the photograph of the domestic / home snowblower which appeared in January 1948 in the daily

A black-and-white image depicts a wooden house in a working-class neighbourhood, early 1900s.

Engineering & Technology

The cut nail: A revolutionary technological innovation

Jean-Philip Mathieu

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This tiny object may be the blandest innovation of the Industrial Revolution, but it radically transformed the ability of people to house themselves.

Asbestos in mineral form. The mineral is greenish and white in colour and there are visible strands of asbestos fibres.

Artifacts and asbestos: Managing hazards at Ingenium

Briana Ippolito

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

When it comes to hazardous artifacts, we’re doing "asbestos" we can! Learn how the Conservation team for the Ingenium museums manages potentially dangerous objects.

A disassembled phone and a variety of parts and tools sit on a work bench.

My phone is blowing up! Dissecting technological artifacts for conservation treatment

Jessica Lafrance-Hwang

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Everyday artifacts like telephones are extraordinary when you dig deeper, as are most artifacts in the Ingenium collection! Check out this article to find out why and how conservators get an inside look at technological objects.

A split screen shot from a Facebook Messenger video chat showing a 60-year-old man with a digital hat and a toddler with a digital cat nose and whiskers.

Household Technology

Share your experiences: Parenting and technology during COVID-19

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

Curators at Ingenium are interested in the ways in which parents’ use of technology has changed during the pandemic. How are your kids maintaining their social and familial connections?

A gloved hand holds up a sample sheet of colourful, rubber bicycle tires from Italy, circa the 1930s.

The science of artifact preservation: Cool storage solutions

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Have you ever wondered how plastics and rubbers are preserved in a museum? Find out more about our new cool storage room at the Ingenium Centre.

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