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Radio, Receiver Source: Ingenium [Artifact no. 2001.0320.001]

Business & Economics

Radio, Receiver Source: CSTMC/SMSTC [Artifact no. 2001.0320.001]

Early Life Ted Rogers and his passion for radio technology and communications built the foundation for today’s renowned company, Rogers Communications. Edward Samuel Rogers, known as Ted Rogers, was born on June 21, 1900, in Toronto, Ontario. Passion for Radio At the age of 11, he became fascinated with radio after seeing his first receiver. Just two years later, he was already being recognized in the community as a skilled radio operator after transmitting signals with one of the first licensed

Saving one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources

Saving one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources

University of Alberta

Canola is one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources and the most profitable commodity for Canadian farmers, and worth about $20 billion a year to Canada’s economy. But in the 1980’s, a disease called blackleg threatened to destroy Canada’s canola industry. Plant scientist, Gary Stringam’s innovative plant breeding research helped save Canada’s canola industry. Stringham’s plant breeding research at the University of Alberta resulted in the development of several new canola varieties, one

Example of a lubrication cup

Rail Transportation

Elijah McCoy (1844-1929)

Real McCoy Do you ever hear someone refer to something as “the real McCoy” and wonder where it comes from? It’s said that Elijah McCoy’s invention could have triggered the phrase. His invention of the lubricating cup was extremely effective. Others tried to copy his idea to share the success, but their devices just weren’t as good. Railroad engineers began requesting his product by name and would ask if trains were equipped with “the real McCoy system”. On Track to Success Elijah McCoy was born

Section of the transatlantic telegraph cable manufactured in 1857 by Newall and Co. Canadian Museum of History, 2011.38.1

Engineering & Technology

The first transatlantic telegraph cable (1858)

Canadian Museum of History

The first transatlantic telegraph cable was over 3000 km long and ran between Valentia Island in southwestern Ireland and Heart’s Content in eastern Newfoundland. Telegraph cables used electric current to transmit coded messages over long distances. The Atlantic Telegraph Company, a British–American company, finished laying the first transatlantic cable in 1858. The main figures involved were American businessman Cyrus West Field (1819–1892), British engineers John Watkins Brett (1805–1863) and

Canadian Museum of History, 2006.41.5

Engineering & Technology

Contempra telephone

Canadian Museum of History

For many years, Canadians depended on American designs for their telephones. Northern Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of Bell Canada, used designs licensed from Western Electric, which was associated with AT&T. When the agreement expired in 1966, young industrial designer John Tyson and his team at Northern Electric developed the Contempra phone: a telephone that innovated in both its shape and colour. Unlike the familiar curvilinear designs of the time, Tyson’s phone was angular, with

The Russel tug was immortalized on the Canadian one dollar bill in circulation from 1974 to 1989. Source: Bank of Canada

Engineering & Technology

Russel Winching Tug

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Russel winching tug was a workhorse, moving timber along Canadian waterways to mills and markets before trucks took up the greater share of log transport. The all-steel boat, designed in 1936, replaced the wooden “Alligator,” cumbersome steam-powered amphibious machines that could also travel overland. Part of the increasing mechanization of Canada’s logging industry, the Russel tug used its two-cylinder engine and powerful winch to move massive log booms. The operator positioned the tug

First flight of the Silver Dart immortalized in a painting by Robert W. Bradford , 1965 Source: Ingenium 1967.0893

Silver Dart

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The Silver Dart made the first powered flight in Canada when it lifted off the frozen surface of Bras d’Or Lake on February 23, 1909. Piloted by J. A. D. McCurdy, the Silver Dart’s designer, the flight took place at Alexander Graham Bell’s retreat in Baddeck, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. McCurdy was a member of the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), which Bell’s wife Mabel funded to support a team of aircraft researchers that also included engine designer Glenn Curtiss, engineer F. W

Jack Hopps, at the controls, and Ray Charbonneau, an NRC technician who built several biomedical devices at the NRC, in Ottawa, ca 1951. Source: National Research Council of Canada Archives

Engineering & Technology

Cardiac Pacemaker

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The pacemaker is a Canadian invention that keeps hearts beating. The pacemaker revolutionized the medical treatment of cardiac patients — and kick-started the field of biomedical engineering. In the late 1940s, Canadian surgeons Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow and Dr. John C. Callaghan were exploring open-heart surgery techniques at the University of Toronto’s Banting and Best Institute. Based on his wartime experience as a medic, Bigelow hypothesized that cooling the body and slowing the heart rate

Wallace Turnbull.

Propelling aeroplane history

Algonquin college

Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Wallace Turnbull, an aeronautical engineer, was best known for his contribution to Canadian aviation by inventing the variable pitch propeller – a type of propeller that allows the blades to rotate around a long axis, thus changing the blade pitch. His variable-pitch propeller was successfully tested in flight in 1927 in Ontario. The device was designed to adjust the angle in which the propeller blades cut the air. It provided safety and

Arthur Porter built one of the first analogue computers while a master’s student at the University of Manchester.

Engineering & Technology

The man who built a computer out of Meccano parts

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Arthur Porter was building computers a decade before it was cool. The first digital computer, the ENIAC, was built in 1945. But nine years before this, Porter had already built a differential analyser made of cheap Meccano parts. Born in Ulverston, England in 1910, he was able to stay in school by gaining scholarships and grants. Porter went to the University of Manchester for his undergrad and master’s degrees. And with the help of his mentor

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