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Superman

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The first hero. Superheroes are so common these days – on television and at the movies; in comics, books, and apps; alone and in teams – you would be forgiven for thinking they had always been around. Shuster would tell a different tale. In 1933, the Toronto artist and his writing partner, Jerry Siegel, were the first to create a comic book superhero – a mysterious figure who uses extraordinary physical powers to uphold good and fight evil. Yet they had to push their creation to publishers for

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Whoopee Cushion

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The new sound of novelty. A new sound: that’s all a novelty item needed to become a raging sensation in the late 1920s. Companies offered a wide variety of devices that emitted strange sounds when squeezed–some a child’s scream, others a cat’s screech. Experimenting with sheets of rubber, employees of the JEM Rubber Company in Toronto hit upon a different sound. The noise that emanated from their little rubber pillow was a tad more, now shall we put it, indelicate. American novelty purveyor

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Road Transportation

Ski-doo

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The typo that became a sport. The end of World War Two dealt Armand Bombardier’s snowmobile company a double whammy. The first was obvious and expected: contracts to supply Allied governments with specialized military vehicles halted abruptly. The second wasn’t anticipated; governments in Quebec – both provincial and municipal – began clearing snow from roads in wintertime. Ploughed streets and highways throughout the province meant professionals who had once relied on snowmobiles to go from

Can Virtual Reality Help Drug Addiction Recovery

Simon Fraser University (SFU) professor Farnak Farzan from the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering is leading cutting edge research in neuro-engineering, virtual reality and psychiatry to develop solutions to diagnose and develop recovery-focused treatments for youth struggling with addiction and mental health issues. Farzan was recently named the inaugural chair in Technology Innovations for Youth Addiction Recovery and Mental Health. Farzan will also have a role with the City of Surrey’s

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Atlas of the Heart

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The cardiac catalogue. To fix something, you must have a decent understanding of what’s wrong with it. So to have any hope of repairing a damaged heart, you first must know all the ailments and abnormalities that can afflict this vital organ. The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease gave heart surgeons that critical knowledge for the first time. Published in 1936, the cardiac catalogue was the work of a remarkable woman named Maude Abbott. A trained medical pathologist, she used her position as

4R Nutrient Stewardship - A Pathway to Sustainable Agriculture

The global population is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. That’s a lot of mouths to feed. Smarter, more efficient fertilizer management practices will help growers meet the rising demand for food while minimizing pressure on the environment and meeting societal expectations for sustainable food sourcing. The fertilizer industry and growers across Canada are adopting the top international standard for on-farm nutrient application developed by Fertilizer Canada and first published as a

Dr. Norman Bethune (right) Canadian Blood Transfusion Unit which operated during the Spanish Civil War circa 1936-1938, Spain. Source: Library and Archives Canada Copyright: Expired.

Wartime Service and Canadian Transfusion Medicine

Canadian Blood Services

As Canada celebrates 150 years we look back on Canadian innovations in transfusion medicine over the years. A series of posts over the next few weeks feature remarkable Canadian progress – past, present and future. Modern blood banking and transfusion medicine owe a great deal to Canadian wartime pioneers in battlefield medicine. For example, Dr. Lawrence Bruce Robertson’s insistence on whole blood for treatment of battlefield shock and hemorrhage established its medical importance in

Alexander Graham Bell

Engineering & Technology

Telephone

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The talking telegraph. The telegraph seems like such an ancient device. Encoded messages made up of dots and dashes pulsing over a line. Yet in the 1870s, it was the world’s most immediate communications tool, and innovators raced to uncover a way to squeeze more signals down a telegraph wire. Most approached the challenge by trying to get electricity to carry a range of sounds that imitated speech. One man saw the problem differently. Alexander Graham Bell set out to create an electronic

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Earth & Environment

Snowblower

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The return of the open road. Of all the Canadian efforts to overcome the restrictions of cold weather, the innovation of Arthur Sicard of Saint-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice, Quebec, may have made the most difference. Sicard hatched an idea back in 1894 when just eighteen years old, but it wasn’t till he was almost fifty that he found the time to produce a prototype. He called it la dénégeuse et souffleuse à neige Sicard, or the Sicard Snow Remover Snowblower. The device combined a four-wheel-drive

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Household Technology

Baggage Tag

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The traceable luggage. Even the simplest innovations need to start somewhere. Consider the humble baggage tag. In the early years of rail travel – 1882 to be exact – John Michael Lyons of Moncton, New Brunswick, came up with the idea of baggage handlers writing each passenger’s name, departure point, and destination on a separate tag. Each tag would then be torn in two, with the top portion attached to the passenger’s bag and the bottom portion kept by the passenger. This simple system made it

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