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A pair of bare metal ejection seats with no cushions or padding are mounted on a plywood base, placed beside a few cardboard boxes. Behind the seats, a camouflage-green helicopter is partially visible.

How a pair of ejection seats from the Avro CF-105 Arrow survived

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

When the Avro Arrow project was cancelled by the federal government in 1959, the six planes already constructed were to be completely destroyed. Fortunately, a pair of ejection seats survived. This is their story.

Table-top instrument featuring a small 10-key keyboard made of wood and ivory and ten cylindrical resonators made of brass. All are mounted on a wooden base.

Sounds of the Past and Insights for the Future: How Museum Artifacts Can Inspire Musical Creativity

Maryam Soufisiavash

University of Alberta

I joined Ingenium last Fall as the 2022-23 Research Fellow in Sound and Science, working with curators and international researchers on a database project called Sound and Science: a Database for Sources on the History of Acoustics. As a pianist, I have always had an interest in the study of sound; however, this project led me to re-evaluate, reconsider, and think more creatively about the acoustic elements of the different instruments I play and the different performance spaces I perform in

Two images spliced: On the left, different plant-based milk alternatives, on the right, an overhead view of the Spirit rover.

2 things - and more! - you should know about plant-based milk alternatives and weather on Mars

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For this August edition, our experts explain how plant-based milk alternatives stack up to cow's milk, and share three interesting tidbits about weather on Mars!

Overhead shot of the reconstructed instrument with the control surface opened up, showing various wires and electronic modules located beneath.

Uncovering the secrets of the world’s first synthesizer (Part II)

Tom Everrett, PhD

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Seventy-five years ago, Canadian physicist Hugh Le Caine began work on a strange, new musical instrument with an equally strange name: the Electronic Sackbut. While you may not have heard of the Electronic Sackbut before, you’ve almost certainly heard of the ubiquitous musical instrument it pioneered: the synthesizer. This is part two of an ongoing Channel series that follows Ingenium’s reconstruction of the 1948 Electronic Sackbut, better known as the world’s first synthesizer. Today we’ll look

Left to right: solar panels placed high above low-lying green farm crops in a field; bubbles of various sizes rising in a yellow-green medium; and two tarantula feet magnified 40 times appear orange in colour against a navy-blue background.

3 Things you should know about using the same farmland for producing crops AND solar energy, museum conservators’ superhuman “vision,” and making french fries in space

For this July edition, we explain how future astronauts may be able to cook french fries in space, how technology gives museum conservators superhuman “vision,” and how the same farmland can be used to grow food crops and to “harvest” electricity from solar energy.

Black and white horizontal photograph of man wearing glasses who is laying on his side on the ground feeding a small squirrel by hand.

Reading Expedition Photographs in the Frank T. Davies Fonds

McGill University

Frank T. Davies was a Welsh physicist who studied at the University of Saskatchewan and McGill University before joining the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928. From this experience, Davies went on to participate in the Canadian Second International Polar Year of 1932-1933 in which Davies, Balfour Currie, Stuart McVeigh, and John Rae lived in Igluligaarjuk, Nunavut (then referred to as Chesterfield Inlet of the Northwest Territories) for a year to study the environment.

Two images, spliced. On the left: Aerial photograph of two rows of six large circular nets floating on water and attached by ropes to a boat. On the right: The rings of Saturn slice horizontally, almost edge-on, through the middle of the image. A variety of Saturnian moons of varying apparent sizes are in the image ranging from very small, background moons to larger and closer moons.

2 Things you should know about an integrated aquaculture system and discovering more of Saturn's moons

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For this June edition, our experts explain how recreating nature's recycling system can lead to greener aquaculture, and how more of Saturn's moons were recently discovered.

A red plastic telephone with the handset off of the base on a light grey table. There are scratches on the phone which is an angular design. The rotary dial is on the handset and attached to the base by a red spiral cord.

Collection Development

A Phone Call from Below the Arctic Ice - The 50th Anniversary of Arctic III Sub-Igloo Phone Call to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

On December 17, 1972, Canadian scientists on an Arctic expedition made a groundbreaking phone call to Ottawa. The Arctic III expedition, led by Dr. Joe MacInnis, made the call from 12 metres (40 feet) below the Arctic ice in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, (which was, at that time, part of Northwest Territories).

Spliced image, from left to right: a seismometer on mars, a heap of red rhubarb stalks with green leaves, a copper roof of the Canaian Parliament

3 Things you should know about marsquakes, the value of urine, and the chemistry of rhubarb

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

This month, our experts explain how marsquakes can tell us about the interior of this planet, how urine's chemistry makes it a useful product, and how the chemicals found in rhubarb can affect our bodies.

A bronze relief bust of a man is set in stone.

Electricity in Our Lives: Connecting Ingenium’s Collection to the City of Ottawa

Carleton University

Have you ever stopped and noticed the many ways electricity flows all around us?

Green and pink Northern Lights glow above a snowy residential street. An orange pickup truck is parked in front of one of the houses.

The Oral History of the Oil Sands: Showcasing the Identity of Our Community

Kiersten Gillis

This article is part of a larger research and research creation project that aims to document the past and present of the Athabasca Oil Sands through oral histories and digital heritage projects. The project is a collaboration between Ingenium and the Energy Stories Lab (University of Calgary). Our aim is to highlight community voices and to create platforms for meaningful and nuanced conversations about energy pasts, presents, and futures. Kiersten’s generous sharing of her story is a beginning

A dirty glass slide of a stromatolite with a dirty cotton swab at the bottom; a close-up on a bee with a green head and thorax on a yellow flower; a false colour 3D view of the surface of Venus showing volcanoes and lava flowing towards the foreground.

3 Things you should know about how native bees are important pollinators, how saliva is used to clean artifacts, and active volcanism on Venus

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Collectively, our experts explain how saliva is an effective cleaning agent for art and artifacts, how wild native bees are essential for pollination, and how evidence of volcanic activity has been found on the planet Venus.

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