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Caulking Gun blueprint

Engineering & Technology

Theodore Witte: Caulking Gun

Ontario Science Centre

Here’s a story that takes the cake! Legend has it that Theodore Witte of Chilliwack, British Columbia, got his inspiration for the world’s first caulking gun by watching a local baker decorate a cake by squeezing icing out of a piping bag. In 1894 Witte patented his “puttying-tool”, a “simple and inexpensive” ratcheted device that let users apply a sealant without having to touch the stuff with either their hands or a putty knife.

Arthur Sicard snowblower

Snowblower

Ontario Science Centre

How did a dairy farmer dream up a snowblower? He reaped his idea from his neighbour’s combine harvester! Tired of struggling to make milk deliveries during snowy Quebec winters, Arthur Sicard designed a machine to collect and blow away snow instead of grain. Thirty years and several advances in automotive technology later, he developed a modified truck that could scoop and throw snow farther than 25 metres. In 1927 Sicard sold his first snowblowers to cities on the Island of Montreal, selling

David Fife and Red Fife Wheat

In 1842, David Fife developed Red Fife Wheat, the dominant wheat grown in Western Canada for 60 years – 1860 to 1910. Red Fife is the male parent of Marquis Wheat which, in 1915, supplanted Red Fife as the dominant Canadian wheat. Sharon Rempel’s Heritage Wheat Project in 1988 marked the beginning of the Red Fife Wheat Revival. Artisan bakers prefer Red Fife due to its purity (no GMO), wholesome, nutty taste, milling qualities and nutritious taste. Why is Red Fife Wheat important? Agriculture

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

Wonderbra / © McCord Museum, Montreal

Household Technology

Wonderbra

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The power of the push-up. Some products are so potent their names have defined a category. Think Kleenex for tissue, Teflon for non-stick, and Vaseline for petroleum jelly. The same goes for Wonderbra and women’s intimate apparel. Wonderbra was the 1964 brainchild of designer Louise Poirier of the Canadian Corset Company. The product’s name hinted at the revolution her brassiere would spark in the age when four women in ten still wore girdles. To its credit, the Montreal business realized modern

Road Transportation

The Oldsmobile - a Relic of Canada's Car Manufacturing History

St. Catharines Museum

The car we have on display in the St. Catharines’ museum is representative of the automotive industry in St. Catharines, as it is the first style of car built in the City and was manufactured in the first plant in Canada designed and built specifically for automobile manufacturing. Packard electric built this car on license from Oldsmobile for the distribution in Canada and the British Empire. The Packard Electric co. re-located to St. Catharines in order to take advantage of the close proximity

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback

Household Technology

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback- Inventor of the First Modern Zipper

St. Catharines Museum

Otto Frederick Gideon Sundback 1880-1954 Swedish-born and raised, Gideon Sundback received his technical education as an electrical engineer in Germany. He emigrated to America in 1905 and the following year began to work on a solution to problems with the hook and eye fastener. Various improvements were devised including the Plako (introduced 1908), Hookless #1 (the first ‘hookless’ fastener- 1912), and Hookless #2- the modern zipper (1913). Hookless #2 was the design concept upon which future

Whoopee cushion © Andrew Paterson/Alamy

Household Technology

Whoopee Cushion

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The new sound of novelty. A new sound: that’s all a novelty item needed to become a raging sensation in the late 1920s. Companies offered a wide variety of devices that emitted strange sounds when squeezed–some a child’s scream, others a cat’s screech. Experimenting with sheets of rubber, employees of the JEM Rubber Company in Toronto hit upon a different sound. The noise that emanated from their little rubber pillow was a tad more, now shall we put it, indelicate. American novelty purveyor

Courtesy of Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation

Earth & Environment

Snowblower

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The return of the open road. Of all the Canadian efforts to overcome the restrictions of cold weather, the innovation of Arthur Sicard of Saint-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice, Quebec, may have made the most difference. Sicard hatched an idea back in 1894 when just eighteen years old, but it wasn’t till he was almost fifty that he found the time to produce a prototype. He called it la dénégeuse et souffleuse à neige Sicard, or the Sicard Snow Remover Snowblower. The device combined a four-wheel-drive

Baggage tag / BrAt82/Shutterstock.com

Household Technology

Baggage Tag

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The traceable luggage. Even the simplest innovations need to start somewhere. Consider the humble baggage tag. In the early years of rail travel – 1882 to be exact – John Michael Lyons of Moncton, New Brunswick, came up with the idea of baggage handlers writing each passenger’s name, departure point, and destination on a separate tag. Each tag would then be torn in two, with the top portion attached to the passenger’s bag and the bottom portion kept by the passenger. This simple system made it

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