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Household Technology

Even the Kitchen Sink

Janis Nostbakken

Pre-1948, the typical kitchen sink was made of cast-iron coated in baked enamel that chipped and stained easily. Harry Galley, who had been in the nickel business for a couple of decades, knew there had to be a better option. Stainless steel seemed to fill the bill: lightweight, durable and easy to clean. Other designers had created one-of-a-kind sinks from stainless, but no one had successfully found a method of mass production. Galley discovered a way of using newly improved tooling techniques

University of Calgary

Social Science & Culture

Research builds our urban community

Canada Foundation for Innovation

The University of Calgary teams up with its home city to improve wastewater treatment methods. When we turn on the tap or flush the toilet, we don’t usually give much thought to where the water comes from or where it’s going. But municipal wastewater treatment can be extremely expensive, and the higher the level of treatment, the cleaner the effluent and the smaller the impact on the environment. Even so, Calgary treats its wastewater three times — more than many Canadian cities — before

Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc

Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc - 2016 Governor General's Innovation Awards Winners

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Mark Torchia and Richard Tyc are the creators of the NeuroBlate System, a medical device that combines a novel laser probe system with real-time image guidance. Using magnetic resonance imaging and sophisticated software, the tool allows neurosurgeons in Canada and abroad to treat brain tumours and other intracranial targets in a minimally invasive way that also reduces post-operative care and health costs. As the executive director of the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at

Charles Deguire, CEO and co-founder of Kinova

Engineering & Technology

Kinova - 2016 Governor General's Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Charles Deguire is the CEO and co-founder of Kinova, a company he launched while earning his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Montréal’s École de technologie supérieure. Kinova designs and manufactures simple and safe robotics platforms and components for a broad range of applications. Co-founded by Charles Deguire, the company helps people push beyond their physical limitations and offers a more efficient and safer work environment in industrial settings. Kinova’s sleek, energy

The experimental space sled, configured for an upright seating position. Source: Dr Douglas Watt, McGill University, Montreal

Engineering & Technology

Space Sled

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

It looks like an uncomfortable beach chair, complete with a polka-dotted umbrella. In fact, it is an experimental apparatus used aboard the Space Shuttle to test human adaptation to the microgravity environment of Space. The space sled, as it was known, was first deployed in 1992 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Canada’s contribution to the International Microgravity Laboratory mission (IML-1), the sled tested human responses to Space flight, including vision, hand-eye co-ordination, and

The 100,000th fuel bundle produced for a CANDU reactor. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 1989.0002

Engineering & Technology

Candu Reactor Fuel Bundle

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This CANDU fuel bundle commemorates a milestone in Canada’s nuclear-power industry: produced in 1975, it is the 100,000th bundle made in Canada. CANDU is a nuclear-powered electricity generation system developed in Canada after the Second World War. Standing for CANada Deuterium Uranium, CANDU reactors use deuterium oxide — heavy water — to moderate the high-energy nuclear reactions produced by fission within these uranium fuel rods. The heat generated by these reactions produces high-pressure

Fathometer side view. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 1980.0466

Marine Transportation

Fathometer

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Had the fathometer, or echo sounder, been available, it might have changed maritime warfare during the First World War. The Fathometer, first offered for sale in 1923, uses sound waves to quickly and accurately determine water depth and detect underwater objects, like submarines. Before echo sounders, sailors dropped and retrieved weighted hand-held lines (lead lines) to estimate water depth. After the sinking of Titanic in 1912, Canadian engineer Reginald A. Fessenden wanted to improve

This anemometer was used at the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

Earth & Environment

Anemometer

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

An anemometer measures wind speed and direction, and helps meteorologists determine weather conditions and patterns. This instrument belonged to George Templeman Kingston, director of the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory between 1855 and 1880. In 1871, the observatory, located on the grounds of the University of Toronto, became the headquarters of the Meteorological Service of Canada. From this base, Kingston oversaw the creation of a national network of weather-observation

Wooden oil pump used in the jerker line system. Source: Ingenium 2011.0252

Engineering & Technology

Oil Pump

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

This oil pump drew oil from the ground at one of North America’s oldest oil fields, the Fairbank field in Petrolia, Ontario. The field, still run today by the Fairbank family, was established by John Henry Fairbank, one of the entrepreneurs who, in the mid-nineteenth century, commercialized oil production in southwestern Ontario. Oil lies close to the surface in this part of the province, giving towns such as Oil Springs and Petrolia their names. Fairbank also invented a jerker line system

Telidon videotext decoder. Source: Tom Alföldi; Ingenium 1985.0380

Telidon Videotext Decoder

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Before there was the internet, there was Telidon—a television-based information-sharing system that allowed users to browse computer databases. Telidon consisted of a terminal, a keyboard, and a television. Users plugged this decoder into their telephone or cable service and, using spare bandwidth, browsed services such as news, shopping, banking, community bulletins, and others. While Telidon featured superior graphics for its time, this Canadian government program failed to gain traction, in

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