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Collection Profiles

Collection Profiles, prepared by the curators at Ingenium, offer a glimpse into the national collections. They explain historical and social context of technologies and describe significant artifacts in areas such as agriculture, aviation, communication, graphic arts, household technologies, medicine, natural resources, sciences, and transportation. 
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Science Alive!

Check out the video series that explores fascinating stories from Ingenium's collection. Produced in partnership with Dave Schellenberg from Ottawa’s Live 88.5 radio station.
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Science Alive! Episode 4: Zombies at the Museum

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Canada Science and Technology Museum
Mar 21, 2016
If you were trapped in the Museums’ collection warehouse during the zombie apocalypse- what would you use to defend yourself? Dave and Museum Conservator Erin Secord examine the creepier side of the Museums’ collection in this special, zombie-themed episode.
The 6400 locomotive hauling the Royal Tour Train, May 1939. London, Ontario.
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CN 6400

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Apr 10, 2015
Royal Tour 1939 CN 6400 achieved the peak of its fame in 1939 when it carried King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on the Royal Tour across Canada and then went on display at the “World of Tomorrow,” the New York World’s Fair. The Face of Modern Rail Travel: Sleek and Streamlined Manufactured at the Montreal Locomotive Works for Canadian National Railways (CNR) in 1936, this steam locomotive featured a semi-streamlined body — designed by National Research Council of Canada engineers — and a state
Canadian National Railway “6400/U4A” Locomotive
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Canadian National Railway "6400/U4A" Locomotive

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Feb 9, 2016
Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canadian National Railways (CNR) designed and manufactured five 6400 series locomotives in the 1930s. Looking for ways to improve smoke clearance around the locomotive cabs, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) conducted wind tunnel tests throughout the design phase. These tests led the NRC to manufacture an entirely new style of locomotive, one that was more aerodynamic and semi-streamlined. With the intention of being used for passenger service, this
Model of a 20th century Canadian Pacific train with a full view of the interior of a railway post office, Canadian Museum of History, 1974.2091.1 a-c
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The first mail car on North American trains (1854)

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Canadian Museum of History
Mar 16, 2016
The first railway post offices appeared on Canadian railways in 1854 and were the first to be used in North America. Trains were first used to transport sealed mail bags in 1840, a few years after the first steam train in Canada was introduced in 1836. But railway post offices were what marked the beginning of the golden age of the railway mail service. At this time, Great Britain was transferring responsibility for the postal service to the government of the Province of Canada. Starting in 1854
Canada Sciene and Technology Museum: CN Images of Canada Gallery
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Streamlined Locomotive

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National Research Council Canada
Nov 2, 2015
In the 1930s, National Research Council of Canada engineering helped to launch a new generation of streamlined locomotives. A sleek design grew out of an NRC project to improve the efficiency of locomotives and prevent smoke from obscuring the engineer’s view from the cab. Reduced visibility was a serious safety issue, so Canadian National Railways (CNR) turned to NRC for a solution. Engineers used NRC’s new wind tunnel to test existing locomotive models and experiment with alternate designs
Orange Jull’s snow excavator. Source: Library and Archives Canada/a194326
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Rotary Snowplough

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Library and Archives Canada
Nov 12, 2015
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the rotary snowplough is a Canadian invention. The spinning fan-like contraption, first used on the railroad, eventually inspired the modern snowblower. J.W. Elliot, from Toronto, Ontario, first conceived of a spinning snow shovel, which he patented in 1870. This shovel consisted of a rotary engine driving a wheel mounted on the front of a train. A steel collector on the tracks fed the snow to fan plates on the edge of the wheel, which threw the snow out of
Portrait of Sir Sanford Fleming. Source: archive.org
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A question of time

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Algonquin college
Feb 25, 2016
Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Father Time might be just a personification of time, but Sir Sandford Fleming, who is considered the father of standard time, is most certainly real. Fleming came up with the concept of standard time while he was building the Canadian Pacific Railway. With all the different local times, travelling across the country would be chaotic and make it impossible to maintain a schedule. Thus, the railway needed standardized times for train arrivals and
The view from the Summit Lake Mill (Nakusp), B.C., in the 1910s
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Donkeys and Snow Chutes at Summit Lake, B.C.

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Nakusp, B.C.
Nov 17, 2015
Summit Lake is located midway between Nakusp on the Upper Arrow Lake, and Rosebery on Slocan Lake, in the West Kootenay of southern British Columbia. In 1908, when George Robinson was building the Summit Lake Lumber Company mill there, conditions were ideal for the undertaking! There was flat land for a townsite and mill. The Nakusp and Slocan Railway ran along the lakeshore. The lake itself would transport logs to the mill. It was expected they would cut over one hundred million feet of
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