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Image is a black-and-white photograph showing employees standing on and around a steam locomotive. There are about 40 men
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Archives Awareness Week: Digital Archives portal expands railway and aviation collections

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Adele Torrance
Ingenium
Mar 31, 2020
As students and educators shift from the traditional classroom to online learning in the face of COVID-19, the Ingenium Digital Archives portal is growing its offerings.
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Railway enthusiasts invited to watch Canadian artifacts take to the tracks

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jul 10, 2019
Moving artifacts that weigh hundreds of metric tons is no small feat, but Ingenium is on a roll. Later this month, three pieces of Canada’s storied rail history will take to the tracks during a public event that will see them move out of a storage warehouse and into their new home in Ingenium’s Collections Conservation Centre in Ottawa. The Bytown Railway Society — a volunteer-run organization which restores and operates steam rail equipment — will be a key player in the move.
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Digital Archives: Canada's Guest Children during the Second World War

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Kristy von Moos
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 5, 2018
In honour of Archives Awareness Week (April 2-8), Ingenium is highlighting a few gems taken from our digital collection. This text has been adapted from the Picturing the Past website, developed by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2006. As early as 1933, with Hitler’s rise to power, the British government began to plan for war with Germany. Many Britons were concerned, not only with the bombing of cities, but with the threat of military invasion and occupation by the German army. The
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Dr. Lucius Oille: The Father of St. Catharines' Waterworks

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Jun 2, 2017
Dr. Lucius Oille Dr. Lucius Oille was born in 1830 and was one of St. Catharines most prominent citizens. He served as a member of council for several years before becoming mayor in 1878. He was only the second mayor of the city and first chairman of the waterworks. He did not stand for re-election; however he continued to contribute to the city. Oille was a physician and owned the first x-ray machine in St. Catharine. Dr. Oille was involved in dozens of city projects, such as the organization
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Waterloop competed in SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Challenge as the only Canadian team

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University of Waterloo
Mar 28, 2017
Waterloop - a student design team building a commuter pod to one day take you from Toronto to Montreal in 30 minutes - tested their prototype at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition in January 2017. They competed against 23 finalists from around the world including the Massechusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. About 150 students from all six of the University of Waterloo’s faculties have contributed to the Waterloop team. Architectural
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Lubricating Cup

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Mar 22, 2017
The real McCoy. It was so much better than all the other kinds that railroad engineers asked for it by name. The “it” is Elijah McCoy’s automatic lubricating cup for oiling the steam engines of locomotives and ships. When the mechanical engineer developed it in 1872, McCoy’s cup was a boon to railroaders throughout the world. The device supplied lubricating oil to the cylinders, bearings, and axle box mountings of locomotives automatically. This method boosting productivity, enabling trains to
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Compound Steam Engine

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Ingenious - Ingénieux
Mar 21, 2017
The more efficient generator. Innovation is not usually invention. The compound steam engine is a perfect example of how smart thinking can make a good thing even better. In this case, the thinker was Fredericton, New Brunswick, native Benjamin Tibbets. The problem he considered was the wastage of heated steam in engines. Before Benjamin put his mind to the problem, steam engines required vast amounts of carbon fuel to produce vapour, which was then used briefly to produce power and subsequently
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TRIG uses Sensors to Increase Safety in Rail Transportation

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ASTech Foundation
Feb 21, 2017
2016 ASTech Award Winner for Innovation in Information and Communications Technology TransRail Innovation Group (TRIG) is revolutionizing a century-old industry with the introduction of new technology. Calgary’s TRIG’s new XLOAD™ electronic sensor brings safety in rail transportation to a new level through its radar technology and unique capabilities. This increased level of safety affects not only the rail transportation workers, but also the environment. “What XLOAD™ does is allow workers to
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Reading, Riding and ’Rithmetic

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Janis Nostbakken
Jan 19, 2017
From 1926 to the mid-1960s children in remote communities throughout Ontario were schooled through an innovative program that brought the classroom to them via rail. Fred Sloman, one of several dedicated teachers in the program, rode the rails for 39 years delivering lessons and social services to kids and their families. His wife and five children went along for the ride making their home at one end of the rail car that doubled as a classroom. There were seven cars in all used throughout the
The Last Spike, commemorating the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. Source: Ingenium 1985.0916
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The Last Spike

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Aug 26, 2016
The “last” spike was really the “second-to-last” spike. It took two swings for Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) financier and director Donald A. Smith to drive the final spike in Canada’s transcontinental railway. Smith represented CPR executives at a small ceremony on November 7, 1885, at Craigellachie, British Columbia. On his first attempt, Smith bent the spike. Workers replaced it with another, which Smith drove cleanly home. That spike symbolically completed the 4,800-kilometre railway and
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