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Insert from Jell-O recipe book showing images of syllabub, maple walnut Jell-O, cherry Jell-O, stuffed tomato salad, pineapple mouse, and marbled Jell-O. (“JELLO- 10 c A PACKAGE”)

Retro recipes: Cookbooks from the Ingenium collection

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Conservators Erin Secord and Jessica Lafrance-Hwang noticed a lively exchange of vintage recipes on social media and suggested we share some from Ingenium’s trade literature collection.

A Thor Automagic combined dishwasher and washing machine. Anon., “Advertising – Thor Canadian Company Limited.” La Patrie, 20 November 1948, 4.

Social Science & Culture

Do Asgardians use Thor Automagics to wash their dishes and clothing?

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of aviation and space. Today’s topic, as you undoubtedly know by now, is an unconventional dual purpose household appliance yours truly stumbled across while perusing, a virtual perusing actually, the pages of the 20 November 1948 issue of La Patrie, a daily newspaper published in Montréal, Québec. I know, I know, a combined dishwasher and washing machine has little to do with the aforementioned world of aviation and space. Still

Electric Vehicle

Earth & Environment

Electric vehicles: The rise of the green machine from the 80s to today

LTE Program Assistant

In the late 1980s, Canadians began to realize that carbon dioxide emissions, global warming, greenhouse gases, and fossil fuel emissions posed a serious problem. In response, several regional bodies began to introduce environmental policies.

THE ART OF THE BRICK

Engineering & Technology

Building a colourful, new life

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Have you ever dreamed of ditching your day job and playing with toys instead? Nathan Sawaya—a former attorney in New York City—did just that, and he couldn’t be happier. Sawaya creates inspiring artwork from one of the most recognizable toys in the world: the LEGO® brick. An exhibition featuring his creations, THE ART OF THE BRICK, has travelled around the globe and was named one of CNN’s Top Ten “Global Must-See Exhibitions.” THE ART OF THE BRICK is coming to the Canada Science and Technology

An electric range

From the Stove to the Electric Range: The Range Collection

Louise Trottier

The Ingenium’s collection of ranges, includes a variety of appliances — fireboxes, table stoves, cooking plates, buffet stoves — and illustrates the main innovations made to these electric household cooking appliances between 1900 and 2000.

Hawaiian pizza

It’s the single most popular kind of pizza in Australia and one of the most popular in the world: With its unique combination of savory ham and sweet pineapple, the Hawaiian pizza actually originated in Chatham, Ontario. “Pizza wasn’t known at all in those days,” the dish’s Greek-Canadian creator Sam Panopoulos has said. “[Not] even in Toronto. The only place you could have pizza was in Detroit,” he’s said. After immigrating to Canada in the 1930s, Panopoulos moved to Halifax, then northern

Courtesy of Ingenium

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

Matthew Sheridan

Matthew Sheridan: Nix Color Sensor

Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation

The ability to match, formulate, correct and control the quality of colour is a vital function in many industries including textiles, cosmetics, computer imaging, commercial paints and graphic design. Traditionally, every colour measurement method, from spectrophotometers to fans of paint colours, has been costly, difficult to transport and largely inaccurate due to varying light conditions and human error. Matthew Sheridan came up with the idea for a ping pong ball-sized colour sensor after

Frank Bouchard: Wipebook

Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation

Frank Bouchard recognized the need for a low-tech solution to a common problem – giving learners and creators erasability. His Wipebook invention is a reusable, recyclable dry erase paper notebook that allows users to create, solve, erase and start again. Developed initially as an entrepreneurial class project at the University of Ottawa, consumer demand for Wipebook was overwhelming. When Mr. Bouchard started a crowdfunding campaign to raise $4,000 in pre-orders, the campaign raised an

Household Technology

Robert Niven: CarbonCure Technologies

Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation

Robert Niven’s passion for innovation has driven both his educational path and his professional career. As the founder and CEO of CarbonCure Technologies, he helped develop a breakthrough technology that allows concrete producers to reuse CO2 during the manufacturing of concrete. The use of CO2 also improves the quality of the concrete, lowers costs and reduces the overall carbon footprint. It was during his master’s work in Environmental Engineering at McGill University that Mr. Niven began

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