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Three images side by side: cluster of coppery beetles devouring a rose flower, colours showing gravity variations of the Earth, and four yellow and one white synthetic diamonds.

3 Things you should know about geoid models of Earth’s variable gravity, harmful invasive insect species, and synthetic diamonds

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

For this September edition, they tell us how the geoid gravity model helps scientists cope with Earth’s irregular shape, how invasive species such as the Japanese beetle are harmful to Canadian agriculture, and just how similar the properties of synthetic diamonds are to their natural counterparts.

Sketch showing the future Cap Lavéra protein production plant of the Société française des pétroles BP, Martigues, France. Anon., “Le pétrole, source de protéines.” Revue de la Chambre de commerce française au Canada, February 1968, 19.

“Two petroleum steak tartare for table 13, and move yourselves, god dang it!:” The great adventure of a manna which briefly had the wind in its sails, single-cell proteins grown on petroleum derivatives, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello, my reading friend! How are you doing? […] Good, good. I dare to hope that you are able to continue our examination of the history of single-cell proteins grown on petroleum derivatives. […] Good, good. Having obtained the green light from the management of the British petroleum giant British Petroleum Company Limited, the spiritual father of that adventure, the research director of its French subsidiary, the Société française des pétroles BP, the French mechanical engineer / chemist

Roger Mallette, left, and his brother André with their apparatus which produced single-cell proteins from petroleum, Montréal, Québec. Roland Prévost, “Réussite de deux écoliers – Des concentrés protéines-vitamines obtenus par culture sur le pétrole.” La Presse, 3 April 1964, 5.

“Two petroleum steak tartare for table 13, and move yourselves, god dang it!:” The great adventure of a manna which briefly had the wind in its sails, single-cell proteins grown on petroleum derivatives, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Do you like good chow, my reading friend? If your answer was a resounding yes, let me advise you that the subject of this article may not activate your digestive juices. Said subject found its origin in an article published 60 years ago in the important daily newspaper La Presse of Montréal, Québec. Journalist Roland Prévost described therein the remarkable project that two young Quebecers, two brothers in fact, Roger Mallette, 14 years old, and André Mallette, 11 years old, carried out for the

Aerial photograph of General Motors’ Oshawa facilities.

Collection Development

Learning from Experience: Why We Need Oral Histories

Ingrid Mosivais Ibarra

University of Toronto

The large industrial footprint of the General Motors Canada manufacturing facility in Oshawa suggests the scale of its importance and influence in the surrounding community.

Front cover of GM Canada’s Expo 86 pamphlet with wording “IN MOTION…IN TOUCH” displayed in large capital letters.

Collection Development

Re-examining Archival Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

University of Toronto

Re-The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a laundry list of consequences on everyday life; a list far too long to synthesize into one tidy blog post. Instead, I want to shine a light on the impact that the pandemic has had on archival research. For much of the last two years, physical archives have been closed to researchers. For example, the University of Toronto’s archival collections have been shuttered for in-person use, while their online collections and services have remained accessible

A photo of Unifor Local 222’s meeting hall.

Collection Development

What Counts as History? Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Agency

University of Toronto

Popular understandings of history often rest on the perceived achievements of “great men.” These retellings tend to structure their narratives around particularly prominent individuals or decisive political and cultural moments. Certainly, this approach can help to reveal the basic elements of an important historical episode – names, dates, and places, for example – but it tends to obscure the individual and collective efforts of people in their day-to-day life. Indeed, “Great man” methodology

An image looking down the centre of a large room with two rows of locomotive and rolling stock artifacts.

Collection Development

Experimental Collection Engagement with the Locomotives and Rolling Stock Collection

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The majority of Ingenium’s locomotives and rolling stock collection are not currently on public display and most likely will never be due to their size, weight, and maneuverability. New technologies and digital tools, however, create opportunities for these rail artifacts to be seen and accessed by a wider audience. With this in mind, I created a virtual tour that brings together 360 images, artifact histories, archival material, sound, and other Ingenium projects to tell the story of rail

Colour photograph showing white boxes on a vertical bay of archival shelves. A label on the closest box says: “Creagan Collection AH0075.5. Airmen 1914-1918 Canadian & British. Drawer Two: 2 of 2.”

Archives Awareness Week 2022 - no tours yet, but try…archival shelf bingo!

How can we recreate the spontaneity and whimsy of an in-person tour online? The answer….archival shelf bingo!

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.

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