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Exposure device used in industrial radiography. It contains radioactive sealed sources tracked under the SSTS.

Engineering & Technology

Sealed Source Tracking System

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

The use and transfer of high-risk radioactive sealed sources are among the activities regulated by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). To help ensure the safety of these sources and to support the CNSC in its mandate to protect Canadians, a national registry and a Web-based tracking system were developed. The CNSC uses the online Sealed Source Tracking System (SSTS) to help prevent unauthorized possession of these sources. The location and transfer of sources are monitored, and the

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A Killer New View

Vancouver Aquarium

It’s a perfect August morning in Johnstone Strait: sunny, not a breath of wind, perfect visibility; the ocean glistening dark green with the reflection of forested mountains. My colleagues John Durban and Holly Fearnbach, researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Centre in San Diego and long-time friends, are seated on the flybridge of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre research boat Skana. As we scan for the distant blows

NuScale SMR control room: operator looking at one set of pannels in a 12-reactor plant

Engineering & Technology

Small modular reactors and the role of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

The history of the nuclear power sector reflects considerable innovation that spans decades and draws from numerous scientific and engineering disciplines from around the world. Innovation efforts in the nuclear sector must not only consider efficiency and economics but also safety. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has been regulating activities associated with nuclear power since the birth of the nuclear power sector in Canada in 1946. Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a new type

Art of Research Photo Contest

Art of Research

Queen's University

Finding a muse in research Often, much of the research being done at Queen’s University is only seen by those involved in the project or who belong to the same department. To help highlight some of the amazing work being done at Queen’s the Office of the Vice-Principal (Research) held the second annual Art of Research photo contest, calling on faculty, staff and students to showcase their research, scholarly and artistic work through photography. Dozens of images were received highlighting

half-tone images of photographs

Illustrated News – Half-tone Photographic Printing

Janis Nostbakken

October 30, 1869 was an eventful day in the history of publishing. The roots of photojournalism can be traced back to that date when the Canadian Illustrated News made its debut. The picture on the front page of the News was the focus of attention. The photo in itself was nothing special, but the process that put it there was extraordinary. Publisher Georges-Édouard Desbarats and his printer, William Leggo, had worked together to achieve what many others had tried but failed to do. They came up

Willard Boyle and George E. Smith

Engineering & Technology

Going Digital – The Charge-Coupled Device

Janis Nostbakken

A mere hour or so of brainstorming at a blackboard one October afternoon in 1969 led to a revolutionary gizmo that spawned an entirely new industry. Nova Scotia-born Willard Boyle and his American colleague, George E. Smith, had put their heads together in Boyle’s office at Bell Labs in New Jersey to come up with a new kind of memory circuit for computers. The result was the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) which, as it turned out, proved much more useful for capturing images than for memory storage

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 World’s First Electric Meal

Janis Nostbakken

Dubbed the “Edison of Canada,” Thomas Ahearn was the astute businessman and prolific inventor who literally electrified Ottawa. In 1882, Ahearn and his partner, Warren Soper, lit up the city’s streets with arc lamps; in 1891, they replaced horse-drawn trams with electric street cars; and to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 their company illuminated the Parliament Buildings with thousands of lights. To promote the wonders of electricity, not to mention his own business, Ahearn

Frank Morse Robb

Household Technology

Morse Music – The World’s First Electronic Wave Organ

Janis Nostbakken

In November 1927, Morse Robb was heralded in newspaper stories as a genius for his invention of the world’s first electronic wave organ. At the age of 24, Robb had found a way to reproduce the magnificent tones of a cathedral pipe organ in an instrument that was small enough to fit in a family home. Instead of pipes, his innovation featured 12 shafts, one for each note of the chromatic scale. Sets of “tone discs” corresponding to organ stops were mounted on each shaft. The discs rotated to

Frank Morse Robb

Frank Morse Robb 1902–1992

Janis Nostbakken

Like many inventors, Morse Robb began his career in science at an early age. Born in Belleville, Ontario he was a studious and creative boy constantly coming up with gadgets that often backfired: his Christmas tree light flasher gave his father a shock; he ruined a good pair of pants in an attempt to make ether; and he created a highly sensitive chemical compound that exploded with the touch of a feather. But his puttering eventually paid off. By the time he was 11, Robb invented several

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