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Making sense of an Enigma

Molly McCullough

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The host of the weekly television show Plein Ciel, on the right, and his technical adviser, Captain Marcel Everard. Anon., “Introduction à l’aviation.” La semaine à Radio-Canada, 29 November to 5 December 1958, 12.

A television show I would have liked to see during my youth

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. With your permission, we will momentarily put aside the remarkable library of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, to view a publication which, at first glance, had nothing to do with the fields of interest of this august institution. A review of the weekly La semaine à Radio-Canada allowed yours truly to unearth a television show I would have liked to see during my youth. Intended for an adolescent audience, mostly male in all likelihood, Plein

Envelope sent to John Horn from Samuel Morse in 1871. It appears between pages 470-71 in Horn’s volume of The Telegraph in America.

Social Science & Culture

Enhanced Reading: John Horn’s Volume of The Telegraph in America, 1879

Guest writer, McGill University

Books are tools that organize knowledge. When readers access that knowledge, they engage a reading experience.

Celebrating the first public flight of the SHARP-5, Ottawa, Ontario, 6 October 1987. The full size SHARP would have been 8 times larger. Communications Research Centre Canada.

Do microwave drones dream of frozen pizzas?, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome back, my reading friend. Isn’t the story of the Stationary High-Altitude Relay Platform (SHARP) fascinating? You wish to read more about it, don’t you? Let us proceed, then. Between 1982 and 1986, the Communications Research Centre (CRC), in Ottawa, Ontario, conducted some studies to see if and how the SHARP could be used to deliver a wide variety of telecommunications and broadcasting services across Canada, in a cost-effective fashion. Meanwhile, a University of Toronto Institute for

The SHARP-6 in flight. This unpiloted aerial vehicle seemingly flew using batteries rather than microwaves to provide the electricity needed by the motor. Anon., “First actual flights – Beam-powered plane.” Popular Science, January 1988, cover.

Do microwave drones dream of frozen pizzas?, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Let me begin by hoping that the title of this article will not offend any individual involved in the development of the vehicle at the heart of it. The SHARP programme was a truly remarkable achievement, as can be seen on the cover of the January 1988 issue of the American monthly Popular Science. Communication satellites have revolutionised the world we live in. Sadly enough, these technical wonders are extremely expensive and difficult to repair. Communication towers are a lot cheaper to build

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BlackBerry

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The catapult to the future. Nineteen ninety-six stands as the opening year in our era of anytime-anywhere communications. That year, Mike Lazaridis unveiled the prototype of his first wireless communications device. Sure, there were all kinds of cellular phones on the market by then, but while most telecom firms and mobile carriers still focused on voice, the enterprising engineer from Waterloo, Ontario, believed people were just as eager to communicate by data. The next year, his company

Creators of "The Relens"

Sharing Our Innovation: "The Relens"

Presley Sibbick

In 2017, students from Hagersville Elementary School in Ontario worked in teams to design, develop and share Innovation Projects. One team of young innovators created ‘The Relens’. The Innovation Project ideas began on a field trip to Nipissing University, Brantford campus, where students ranging from grades 3 to 5 learned about Canadian Innovations and the Innovation Cycle. This field trip was led by student teachers, Joseph Bishop and Presley Sibbick, along with Nipissing University professor

How Canada got online

How Canada got online

If you’re reading this chances are you didn’t even consider how you got here; this page, on the internet. Web access is just something we’ve come to take for granted as natural in today’s age. But not so long ago information technology was in its infancy. In 1989, CA*Net was born and served as the backbone for computer networking in the country. Canada needed a way to relay computer data much faster and designing a country-wide network was the way to do it. Specifically, there was a need for

Electric Radio courtesy of Ingenium

Household Technology

Electric Radio

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The freedom from batteries. Today the name Rogers is synonymous with communication in Canada. While most associate the surname with the tv and mobile empire, the first man behind the name was a radio guy. And not just any radio guy. In 1925, Edward Rogers Sr. developed the first commercially viable all-electric radio in Toronto, Ontario. The tireless inventor also created an adaptor set that made it possible for owners of old sets to throw away their batteries and plug their radios into the

Television prototype made by Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet in 1932. Source: Tom Alföldi; CSTMC 1969.1044

Television Receiver

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Television debuted in Canada in 1931. Canadian engineer Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet (1908–1988) designed and built this television set prototype in 1932, one of the first in Canada. Television had first cast its glow in the mid 1920s when Scottish engineer John Logie Baird proved that live moving images could be transmitted via radio waves. In Canada, the technology debuted on October 9, 1931. It was at this time, a full twenty years before Canadian network television was officially launched, that

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