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Alexander Graham Bell invented the
telephone in 1874. Did you know the first words ever spoken on the
telephone were by Bell to his assistant Watson?
He said "Watson! Come
here, I need you." (At that moment...room service was invented!!) |
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Dr. Frederick G. Banting and
Dr. Charles H. Best, working together at the University
of Toronto, isolated insulin in 1921. The drug revolutionized the treatment of
diabetes. |
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F. Henroteau received the first
patent for the modern television camera in 1934. |
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Prof. E. F. Burton, heading a
team of physicists at the University of Toronto, made the electron microscope a
practical, commercial device in the late 1930s. |
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J. G. Wright invented an aerial
homing device.
As he was a Wing Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force,
the patent rights to his invention are owned by the Canadian Government. |
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Patent 539407 was awarded for
17-alpha-ethynyl-17-hydroxy-5(10)-estren-3-one, which is known today simply as
"The Pill".
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Dr. W.R. Franks and his
colleagues (University of Toronto)invented the anti-gravity flying suit in
1939. No, it couldn't make you fly, but it did let jet pilots withstand
higher centrifugal forces without passing out. Dr. Franks' suit was a
forerunner of the space suits worn by astronauts today. |
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Patent 864154 was granted in
1971 for an implantable artificial heart that ran on a steam-powered engine.
This invention used the patient's own blood to cool the engine. |
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George Albert Lyons received
over 900 patents, mostly in the field of automobile wheels. He is the most
prolific patentee in Canada. |
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Our first patent was granted in 1791 by the Governor
General in Council to Angus MacDonnel, a Scottish soldier
garrisoned at Quebec City, and to Samuel Hopkins, a Vermonter,
for processes to make potash and soap from wood ash. |
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J.W. Elliot of Toronto
invented the first revolving snow shovel in 1869. It was further developed by
O. Jull and the Leslie Brothers of
Orangeville, Ontario. This invention was the forerunner of the rotary snow plow
that is used in many parts of the world today. |
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A Calgary woman invented a mechanical skirt lifter
designed to raise her hem ever so discreetly so she could cross the muddy and
dusty streets of 1890 Calgary without soiling her frock. |
