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The chicken feeder presented during a 1948 episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation television show The Inventors’ Club. Anon., “Sciences et voyages – La télévision permet aux inventeurs anglais de faire connaître leurs inventions au grand public.” Photo-Journal, 7 October 1948, 8.

Engineering & Technology

Inventing is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration and 10% television

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello there, my reading friend. Television is undoubtedly one of the great inventions of the 20th century. It is the best of things, it is the worst of things, if I may paraphrase Charles John Huffam Dickens. Would you care to accompany me down memory lane to look at one of the best television show you have never heard of, a story brought to you by a photo found in the 7 October 1948 issue of Photo-Journal, a weekly newspaper published in Montréal, Québec? Once upon a time, around September 1947

uOttawa's first computer

Engineering & Technology

Researching the untold story of Canada’s keypunch girls

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Last summer, the Canada Science and Technology Museum offered up access to its collection so that researcher Jennifer Thivierge could study “keypunch girls” — the women who punched holes in data cards and fed them into machines or tabulators, starting in the 1950s. The University of Ottawa’s Gazette writes about her findings, and what they say about gender discrimination within the field of computer science.

Lift off of the hydrogen balloon that carried aloft the antenna of the American emergency radio transmitter BC-778, better known under the name “Gibson Girl.” Anon., “Gibson Girl to the rescue.” Flying Aces, septembre 1943, 30.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Guten tag / good day / bonjour, my reading friend. I hope that all is well with you. If yours truly may be so bold, what do you know about the flights over the seas and oceans made in the 1920s and 1930s to set distance records? Not much, you say? It’s no big deal. All you need to know is that many people from different countries initiated such flights in those years. Some of them, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and James Erroll Boyd, arrived at their destination and became heroes. Several other

A modified Douglas DC-6 operated by the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction. Anon., “Airborne educational TV.” Flying, July 1961, 96.

A unique form of high level education, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Welcome back, my reading friend. Are we ready? Not quite? Are you still studying for the test? Too bad, so sad. It’s time to start. Even though trials took place in May 1961, for 500 000 pupils / students, the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) began to regularly broadcast to schools in September of that year. The televised signal came in loud and clear. One could truly say of this mini network that when its 2 flying television stations was on the air, it was also in it

A modified Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber used for the 1948-49 Stratovision television broadcasting trials. Anon., “Airborne telecasting proves successful.” Aero Digest, August 1948, 32.

A unique form of high level education, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

For my next trick, yours truly shall require your full attention, my reading friend. Your mission, should you accept it, is to make a leap of faith, across the chasm of time and space, from 2018 to 1948. And yes, the photo above shows an airplane. Any thoughts? Have you ever heard of MPATI or Stratovision? No? That’s quite all right, I forgive you. Besides, yours truly had no clue either until he stumbled across the photo above, in the American monthly magazine Aero Digest. Our story began in

Canoes hover around a beach shore in Bella Bella, British Columbia during the Qatuwas in 2014

An Indigenous canoe video series marks a new wave of cultural revitalization

Through a new online video series, Frank Brown is highlighting how Indigenous youth are reconnecting with the traditional, ocean-going canoe. Brown is the executive producer of Glwa – the ocean-going canoe, a series of 13 short videos that showcase the widespread impact of the canoe and the revival of its practice with maritime Indigenous culture today.

A Duncan & Bayley XP-2 Skyhook tethered unpiloted helicopter. Anon., “Rotary wing world – Captive helicopter for research work”. Aero Digest, August 1948, 70.

Now be honest, can you tell me what a Duncan & Bayley XP-2 Skyhook is?

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Really, do you know what a Duncan & Bayley XP-2 Skyhook is, off the top of your head, my reading friend? By the way, please accept my apologies for repeating the name of this pilotless aircraft / drone / remotely piloted vehicle / unmanned aerial vehicle. Yours truly just finds it very cool, but I digress. If truth be told, I must say I had never heard of the Skyhook before the photo above came across my path. Would you like to know more about it? No? Well, too bad, so sad. Our story began in

Electric vehicle charging station in Quebec, Canada.

Road Transportation

Gas Crisis of the 1970's spurs Electric Vehicle Research and Development

LTE Program Assistant

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.

An image of Anne Frank

Engineering & Technology

Take a virtual reality tour of Anne Frank’s house

Lindsay Wolcott

You don’t need to travel all the way to Amsterdam to see the Anne Frank House. The museum recently launched a 25-minute virtual reality tour that takes you through the rooms—hidden behind an Amsterdam canal-side house—where Anne wrote her diary. Read the full article and watch a trailer for the virtual reality tour.

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