Spin off: Canadian Inventions

[bubbaray]

OK, post Canadian inventions -- ones you are proud of, ones you didn't know about, ones that are shocking...

[bubbaray]

OK, I didn't know that pablum is a Canadian invention. Yum. Babies around the world must be cursing us!

[bubbaray]

Huh. Pictionary AND Trivial Pursuit....

Guess we need things to keep us busy in our igloos.

[bubbaray]

zipper
lightbulb

[EllasMum]

OK... lemme see...

The Bloody Caesar!

[3blackcats]

Daylight Savings Time

[Piglet]

CanadArm - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadarm

Basketball - http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbasketball.htm

Insulin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Banting

Keep 'em coming!

[moosemama]

Here are the top 50 greatest Canadian inventions (according to CBC):
http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/

1. Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best]
2. Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
3. Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
4. Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan]
5. Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier]
6. Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
7. Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson]
8. Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
9. Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
10. Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance]
11. Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
12. Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
13. Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell]
14. Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC]
15. Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming]
16. Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
17. Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier]
18. BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
19. Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
20. Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples]
21. Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
22. Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack]
23. UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet]
24. Instant Replay [1955, CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada]
25. Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante]
26. Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders]
27. Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall]
28. Lacrosse [First Peoples]
29. Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn]
30. Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis]
31. Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
32. Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
33. Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
34. Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
35. WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy]
36. Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp]
37. Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
38. Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
39. Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs]
40. Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias]
41. Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch]
42. Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
43. Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein]
44. CPR Mannequin: “ACTAR 911” [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault]
45. G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks]
46. Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove]
47. Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy]
48. Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson]
49. Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte]
50. Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons]

I didn't know about Wonderbra or the Retractable Beer Carton Handle!

[Piglet]

Are those in order of importance? I like that 5-pin bowling beat out the Pacemaker!

[moosemama]

Are those in order of importance? I like that 5-pin bowling beat out the Pacemaker!

Apparently there was a "coast-to-coast-to-coast vote". The winners were announced on CBC in January 2007. I vaguely remember it...

Here's a link to descriptions/pictures of the inventions: http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/inventions.html and some of the inventors: http://www.cbc.ca/inventions/didyouknow.html

I think it's funny that poutine and the Bloody Caesar "beat" the electron microscope!

:canada:

[BillK]

Hell - here all along I thought the only Canadian inventions were Beer, Cigarettes and Hockey! /duck :ROTFLMAO:

[EllasMum]

Hell - here all along I thought the only Canadian inventions were Beer, Cigarettes and Hockey! /duck :ROTFLMAO:

I don't know if we invented Beer, Cigarettes and Hockey, but we sure enjoy them. A LOT. :p

[moosemama]

I don't know if we invented Beer, Cigarettes and Hockey, but we sure enjoy them. A LOT. :p

Well, not the cigarettes (I actually don't know anyone who smokes), but I agree with the other two!

[moosemama]

Hell - here all along I thought the only Canadian inventions were Beer, Cigarettes and Hockey! /duck :ROTFLMAO:

And you and your Penguins should thank us for hockey!