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Top ten inventions you didn’t know were Canadian

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Pu-leeze… as an immigrant to Canada, let me mention many, many, more contributions made by Canadians…
1) the great screw propeller. Turning and powering ALL modern ships, invented by Nova Scotian John Patch in 1833.
2) Alexander Graham Bell’s hydrofoil. 1903. To propell his kites that explored the properties of flight.
3) Joshua Slocom (sp?) invented the concrete self steering boat. The first person to sail solo around the world. (find out yourself how he died)
4) J.W. Elliot, the inventor of the wedge snowplow (for trains) 1869.
5) Of course… Armand Bombardier… 1926… the snowmobile.
6) James Floyd… civil jet transportation… the Avro Jetliner 1949.
7) Hydro. Need I say more?
Nelson Pogue? The ‘inventor’ of the 200 mpg carberator????

Besides the Robertson screw, we invented the taxpayer screw when PET discovered he could buy elections by bribing voters with borrowed money their children have to pay back with compound interest.

Taxpayer screw?
Is that the one with the left-hand thread?

“”””Nelson Pogue? The ‘inventor’ of the 200 mpg carberator????””””
yer Joe King right:-)))))

After my wife makes me take out the (garbage bags) wonderful invention.
I love to sit and watch football or any other program, and (replay) it as many times as needed, Dish Network.
Then eat a (peanut butter) honey/jelly/ cracker or sandwich with skim milk;
Always thought George Washington Carver invented (peanut butter)??
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But I hate that Canadian screw, can’t even remember its name..

The abort-o-dopt is spiffy…

One more, the apology offered after having one’s foot stepped on. Everytime it happens, a UN bureaucrat gets a warm fuzzy feeling all over.

THAT’S why Nelson didn’t get a number!!!!!
8) Wallace Rupert Turnbull… the inventor of the variable pitch propeller. Rothesay New Brunswick.
9) Sir Edward Sabine… the first magnetic sureyor… precursor to GPS.
10) J.J. Wright.. the electric street car, still in use today.
11) Pitchblend… rhe source of radium… Gilbert Labine.
12) The cobalt bomb… nuff said.
13) Thomas Wilson, Hamilton… invented ‘carbide’ lighting which eventually lead to acetylene welding!
14) James Miller Williams… the worlds first oil well… predating Petrolia Ontario.
15) Dr. Abraham Gesner… kerosene… from coal.
16) J.Cameron Mackie… Dominion Steel and Coal Corp. Nova Scotia… shatterproof railway rails. 1930.
17) Wood pulp to make paper.
18) John Molson.
19) Charles Goodeve, the inventor of ‘degaussing’, repelling magnetic mines in WWII.
20) Phillip McGinnis… created the ‘honest start’ in horse racing… a wire that lifted and allowed all horses in a race to start at the same time. No more ‘jumping the gun’.
My personal favorite… E.W. Leaver. 1946. The ultimate ‘father’ of the Canadarm. Toronto.
Canada, be proud, you punch ‘above your weight’. 😉
Thank you for allowing me to be here.

The satellite dish mount gimble arm on the International Space station. Invented by Kerry Spring.

Well if we are making lists, include Alex Bell’s telephone. Probably the Canadian invention with the biggest effect. Right?

From coming to Canada from Scotland in 1870 to the first successful telephone conversation in 1876, Bell spent the vast majority of the time living and working in the U.S. The first working telephone was created in the U.S. Bell did spend much of his time after 1885 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia so we essentially adopted Bell and his inventions.

CANADA ALSO INVENTED THE OBAMA.
The prototype was a Trudeau, but it was only a white version, Obama has color added for greater appeal. We are now inventing the new version of these types of leaders. Our latest model has big-hair-flipping added to attract more youth voters. With the hair feature, we were able to save on processing power and RAM capacity.
With this latest generation of voters, big hair trumps big brain. But then we haven’t seen much in the way of big brain or big balls lately anywhere … Harper is doing a pretty good so far, but …. well …. his hair …. not so good.

As a Canadian, the idea that A.G. Bell or the telephone where Canadian has always puzzled me. Bell was clearly Scottish, moving to Canada in his early 20’s and the telephone was clearly an american invention being invented after Bell moved to the US.
Bell’s invention and the company that it spawned lead directly to our modern age. Look at all the things that came out of Bell Labs, if it was only the transistor that would be enough to put it up with Edison’s GE. GE and Westinghouse bringing us the electrical age and Bell Labs bringing us the communication age.
Its strange that we grab on to the telephone, while this list and the lists above in this thread prove that even without the telephone Canadians have contributed greatly to modern society.

Pablum was developed by Canadian pediatricians Frederick Tisdall, Theodore Drake, and Alan Brown,[1] in collaboration with nutrition laboratory technician Ruth Herbert (all of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto), along with Mead Johnson chemist Harry H. Engel.[2]
And we’ve been feeding the world squishy stuff ever since.

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