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Two of the engineers who made the Alouette satellite a success: Colin A. Franklin (left) and John N. Barry, Ottawa, Ontario. Anon., “Many ‘Firsts’ for Canadian Satellite – Alouette Sports New Space Advances.” The Montreal Star, 22 September 1962, 43.

Alouette, gentille alouette, Alouette, je te lancerai; Or, How the Cold War propelled Canada into space via the Alouette satellite, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Did you know that the Canadian space program was a creature of the Cold War? Yes, yes, a creature of the Cold War between the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and their allies / satellites, Canada and Poland for example. That Cold War had already chilled our ginormous blue marble for a good ten years when the USSR launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in October 1957 – a small metal marble mentioned in moult issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee since

A spliced, three-part image features: a view of the Apollo 11 ascent module flying above the grey Moon on the left, honeybees on a honeycomb in the centre, and a hand holding a fanned-out deck of cards.

3 things you should know about how mathematics is used for space exploration, how honeybees are masters of geometry, and the uniqueness of a shuffled deck of cards.

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

For the September edition, we explain how mathematics is an indispensable tool for space exploration, how honeybees are masters of geometry, and about the unbelievable uniqueness of a shuffled deck of cards.

Approximate view of the area in which the solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 could be observed in its totality (main image), or not (right-side column). Anon. “Mighty Workings of Tomorrow’s Eclipse.” Sherbrooke Daily Record, 30 August 1932, 1.

“We all pray for a cloudless day:” The solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 in Québec, part 3

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello, my reading friend, and welcome to this third part of our article on the total solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 – a part you were very keen on last week. So, you can store the pitchforks and torches. Yours truly would like to be able to tell you that everything went swimmingly on that day in August 1932, in the middle of the afternoon, but the reality was quite different. Clouds darkened the sky in a good part of the Québec zone of total darkness, from Parent in the North to Magog in the

Some of the eminent British researchers en route to Canada to observe the total solar eclipse of 31 August 1932. Anon., “Le ciel québécois et les astronomes. La Presse, 29 July 1932, 9.

“We all pray for a cloudless day:” The solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 in Québec, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello, my reading friend passionate about astronomy. Would you like to continue without further delay this presentation devoted to the solar eclipse of August 1932? Wunderbar! Before undertaking that reading exercise, allow me to identify some of the eminent British researchers en route to Canada aboard the Canadian liner SS Montcalm operated by Canadian Pacific Steamships Ocean Services Limited for the purpose of observing said eclipse. Yes, the ones you saw on the photograph above a few

Cropped photograph of the 1874 ear phonautograph showing the mouthpiece and ear components.

Reconstructing a lost object: can you identify this component in Alexander Graham Bell's 1874 ear phonautograph?

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The ear phonautograph was a macabre instrument. It was built by Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence J. Blake in 1874, and used a surgically-removed human ear—a skull fragment, ear canal, ear drum, and ossicle bones—to visually “write” sound waves. It worked like this: the surgically-removed ear was first attached to the top bracket of the instrument by a bolt driven through the skull fragment. It was then tightened in place with a thumbscrew. When a user spoke into the mouthpiece, located behind

The solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 as it could be observed in its totality, from a country road in Maine. Anon., “Souvenir d’éclipse.” La Presse – Magazine illustré, 24 September 1932, 9.

“We all pray for a cloudless day:” The solar eclipse of 31 August 1932 in Québec, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello, my reading friend. To be precise, hello. Yours truly’s long association with the wondrous Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, leads me on this day to pontificate on a subject of a highly celestial nature. I must admit that I am not an umbraphile / eclipse hunter. This being said (typed?), a total solar eclipse is definitely a sight worth seeing. Indeed, I seem to recall seeing a partial annular eclipse in Ottawa, in May 1994, but I digress. A solar eclipse or, more

The Manicouagan Reservoir, also known as the Eye of Québec, as photographed from space by the Sentinel 2-A satellite of the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Programme, January 2017. https://scihub.copernicus.eu/ via Wikimedia.

Sic itur ad astra: Several observations on the stellar career of Canadian astronomer Carlyle Smith Beals, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello there, my reading friend. You caught me in the middle of something. I will be right with you. […] Hello there, again. Are we ready to complete our examination of the stellar career of Canadian astronomer Carlyle Smith Beals? Wunderbar! Well, Beals, his spouse and their daughter left British Columbia in early November 1946. The First Assistant at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, on Little Saanich Mountain, north of Victoria, British Columbia, was beginning a new career at the

Carlyle Smith Beals, Dominion Astronomer. Raymond Taillefer, “Tant qu’il y aura des étoiles – L’observatoire fédéral assure au Canada un brillant rôle scientifique.” Le Droit, 2 August 1947, 1.

Sic itur ad astra: Several observations on the stellar career of Canadian astronomer Carlyle Smith Beals, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Ave, mi amice qui legit, salve. Quid agis hodie? Gaudeo te audire quod bene facis. Do you not love the sound of Latin in the morning, my reading friend? Increasingly accurate online translators allow inadequately educated boors like yours truly to sound, well, civilized / couth / cultured. When they work properly that is. A case in point. What is a proper translation of the word several in French? Plusieurs or quelques? My tiny mind consistently gravitates toward quelques, because it is

The prototype of the Canadian de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver bushplane on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario. CASM, deHavilland DHC-2 Beaver-005.

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Beaver, happy birthday to you: An all too brief look at a Canadian icon, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver bushplane, part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

Hello again, my reading friend, and welcome to this second and final part of our all too brief look at a Canadian icon, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver bushplane – a part devoted to the very prototype of that machine, the Beaver of the amaaazing Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario. As was mentioned in the first part of this article, the first Beaver flew for the first time on 16 August 1947, a teeny, tiny bit more than 75 years ago today. The chief test pilot of de

The prototype of the Canadian de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver bushplane on the day of its first flight, Downsview, Ontario, August 1947. CASM, KM-08317.

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Beaver, happy birthday to you: An all too brief look at a Canadian icon, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver bushplane, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's…

August 1947 was / is the month during which the prototype of a Canadian icon, the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver bushplane, first took to the sky. The happy day was in fact 16 August 1947. The story of that aerial icon began before that happy day, of course. What is this I hear? Can it be true? Really? Yes! To paraphrase the Thing, one of the Fantastic Four, a superhero team you should know and love, it is pontificating time! Sorry. Realising full well that it would probably / almost certainly

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