things you might not know were invented in canada
1. Peanut Butter -1884 (by a pharmacist as an option for people who couldn’t chew food)
2. The Wonder Bra – 1939 (by Canadian Lady Corset Company)
3.Trivial Pursuit – 1979 (by a sports editor and photo editor who couldn’t find all their Scrabble squares)
4. Odometer – 1954 (by a nova scotia inventor)
5. Rotary Snowplow – 1869 (by a dentist – a popular train track clearing device)
6. Egg Carton – 1911 (by a newspaper editor who found a new use for paper)
7. Imax – 1967 (by 3 filmmakers and an engineer)
8. McIntosh Apples – 1835 (by a farmer grafting his wild apple trees)
9. Walkie Talkie – 1937 – (by a western canadian inventor)
10. Insulin – 1922 – ( by 3 toronto scientists- not invented but discovered it and its use )
11. Instant Replay – 1955 (by a cbc tv producer)
12. Foghorn – 1854 (by an inventor/civil engineer/artist – who never patented it)
13. Green currency ink – 1862 (by chemist/mineralogist – ink used to make us dollars green)
14. Baggage tag – 1882 (by a new brunswick railway man)
15. Paint Roller – 1940 (by a canadian inventor – later tweaked and patented by an american)
16. Standard Time- 1883 (by an engineer who brought it to canadian and american railways)
17. Wheelchair – accessible bus – 1945 (by a blind, quadriplegic veteran – took his first ride after his death)
18. Electric Wheelchair – 1952 (by an engineer)
19. Plastic Trash bags – 1950 (by 2 inventors – later sold to union carbide and became glad bags)
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“i don’t even know what street canada is on.”
-al capone, american gangster
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source credits: amanda green, mental floss, canadian pixel
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