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Household Technology

Wringer Washer

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The first home appliance. Machines to wash clothes have been around since at least 1791. Yet the washing machine as we know it today can be traced to 1843. In that year, John Turnbull of Saint John, New Brunswick, added a wringer to a washing machine. The top roll of his wringer washer was spring-loaded to rise and fall to accomodate the thickness of the laundry running through the rolls. This mechanism, activated by turning a crank, meant continuous pressure was applied to wet clothes to

Thomas “Carbide” Wilson

Engineering & Technology

Thomas “Carbide” Wilson: Prolific Inventor and Father of Carbide

St. Catharines Museum

Thomas “Carbide” Wilson was born in 1860 to a struggling farming family in Princeton, Upper Canada. When Thomas was 14, his father died, and his mother worked hard teaching guitar and painting lessons to put her children through school. Lucky for her, Thomas would soon become a prolific inventor and forever change the history of industry. At the young age of 21, Thomas showed great intellectual promise by patenting electric arc lighting. As a result of his invention, in 1881, some shops and

Household Technology

Canada is leading innovation in Virtual Reality video. 360VR, portal navigation, free education and tourism experiences for VR devices using 360video content.

I innovate with VR video. I made this for Canada’s 150th Coast to Coast in 360Video I’ve always had an interest in electronics, optics, videography, biology and psychology. After obtaining a degree in Video Systems Integration, I spent most of my life working for the video telecom industry. Designing,improving and troubleshooting internet and video systems to keep pace with the advances in technology. I also work as an innovator and researcher in my free time, and for the 5 years leading up to

Business & Economics

Audra Renyi - 2017 Governor General’s Innovation Awards Winner

Governor General's Innovation Awards

Audra Renyi is the executive director of the non-profit World Wide Hearing and the founder of earAccess. She has worked as an investment banker on Wall Street dealing with private equity firms. Ms. Renyi has worked with Doctors Without Borders, in Chad; in Rwanda she served as the CFO of the One Acre Fund, and she worked as director of development at Canada World Youth. World Wide Hearing Foundation uses affordable technology, market incentives and rapid training to help underprivileged people

How the Canada Science and Technology Museum designed an accessible, modular headphone jack

Engineering & Technology

How the Canada Science and Technology Museum designed an accessible, modular headphone jack

Accessible headphone jacks aren’t hard to find nowadays, but they’re always built into your average neighbourhood fixtures, like an ATM. This isn’t the most welcoming design since there’s no way to get the device as a standalone product. But the Canada Science and Technology Museum strives for inclusive design, and since they couldn’t buy an accessible headphone jack, their innovators decided to design their own. These jacks are shaped in a way that makes inserting headphones into them much

Synthesizing Insulin in Canada

Synthesizing Insulin in Canada

Synthesized insulin is a hormone used by 300 million people around the world to treat diseases like diabetes. But few people know that it was first recreated in our nation’s capital by the late Indo-Canadian scientist, Dr. Saran Narang. To do this, Narang and his team at the National Research Council used a process called recombinant DNA. DNA is a complex molecule that serves as instructions for cells to create proteins in an organism. Since all life is composed of proteins, DNA acts as

The Cue bathroom privacy door handle

Household Technology

The Cue bathroom privacy door handle

Marilyn Mahoney

Hi, The following article was written by Keith Liles on our new product. We’ve also been featured on Fox News, Canadian Insider, Mobile Syrup among other news sources. Please take a few seconds to read this and if you’d like more information, our press release or even an interview with the founder and inventor please don’t hesitate to let me know. Thank you so much for your time! Have a wonderful day! Cue Handles - You’ll Really Want To Get A Hold Of This Tech The handle turns. The locked door

Thomas Willson would experiment with phosphate in fertilizers at Meech Lake in Chelsea, Quebec

Engineering & Technology

Enlightening Canada with carbide

We take our energy-efficient bright lights for granted nowadays with people rarely questioning how they work. In the late 19th century, however, this was a serious concern given how dim and expensive lighting was at the time. That was until Thomas “Carbide” Willson found an economically-viable way to light up Canada through the use of calcium carbide (CaC2) and acetylene gas (C2H2). An enthusiast of electricity and inventor since his teens, Willson moved from his home in Princeton, Ontario to

The Voltera V-One lets you print your own circuit boards from home

Engineering & Technology

The Voltera V-One lets you print your own circuit boards from home

There was a time when if you wanted to get your very own design of a printed circuit board you’d have to send a file and wait around for two weeks before seeing your work in the flesh. But then, after all your patience, you’d notice that they made a mistake and you’d have to get them to produce a new one. Well, those days are over, thanks to the V-One, a PCB printer. Voltera is the company that created the machine and was founded by students at the University of Waterloo. They noticed the

Social Science & Culture

How to prevent falls

Canada Foundation for Innovation

Researchers at Simon Fraser University are analyzing how people fall with the aim of preventing injuries. The Technology for Injury Prevention in Seniors (TIPS) program at Simon Fraser University partnered with two long-term care facilities in the Vancouver area to study real-life falls. They’re using this falling data to design new preventions such as compliant flooring and hip protectors that can help alleviate fall-related injuries. According to principal investigator Stephen Robinovitch

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