Canadian Inventions

Invention/Innovation	Description/Achievement/Notes	Inventor/Innovator	Year
Totem Pole	The first totem pole was a gift from Raven. It was named Kalakuyuwish, "the pole that holds up the sky."	West Coast First Peoples
Toboggan	From the Algonquian word odabaggan	Eastern First Peoples
Tipi	Tipis or Tepees are probably speciallized adaptations of Wigwams	Plains First Peoples
Kayak		Inuit
Birch Bark Canoe		Eastern First Peoples
Snow Shoes		Eastern First Peoples
Lacrosse	baggataway	Iroquois and Huron
Mcintosh Apple		John McIntosh	1796
Royal William	First Atlantic Crossing Steamship	John Gordie, Samuel Cunard	1833
Ship Propellor	Screw Propellor	John Patch 1789-1861	1833
Washing Machine		James Brown	1835
Newsprint		Charles Fenerty 1821-1892	1838
	First Atlantic Steamship Mail Service	Samuel Cunard	1840
Compound Steam Engine		Benjamin Franklin Tibbetts 1813-1853	1842
Rust-Resistant Red Fife Wheat		David Fife	1843
Potato Digger		William Watts	1845
Kerosene		Dr. Abraham Gesner	1846
Andromonon	3-wheeled crank-driven vehicle propelled by levers beside the driver	Thomas Turnbull	1851
Undersea Telegraph Cable	trans-Atlantic in 1858	Fredrick Newton Gisborne	1852
Odometer		Samuel McKeen	1854
	Modern Ice Hockey		1855
	First Commercial Oil Well	James Miller Williams	1856
Potato Digger		Alexander Anderson	1856
	Railway Sleeper Car	Samuel Sharp	1857
	Air-Conditioned Railway Coach	Henry Ruttan	1858
Automatic Foghorn	steam driven	Robert Foulis 1796-1866	1859
Green Ink	used in printing currency (greenbacks)	Thomas Sterry Hunt	1862
Locomotive Braking System		W. A. Robinson	1868
Spring Ice Skate	Skate blades permanently attached to boot	John Forbes	1868
Half-tone Engraving	first published half-tone photo (blow-up)	Georges Edouard Desbarats, William Augustus Leggo	1869
Rotary Railroad Snowplow		J.E. Elliott	1869
Automatic Machinery Lubricator	The Real McCoy (87 patents)	Elijah McCoy	1872
Rubber Shoe Heels		Elijah McCoy	187x
Lawn Sprinkler		Elijah McCoy	187x
Electric Light Bulb	The patent was later sold to Thomas Edison	Henry Woodward	1874
Telephone		Alexander Graham Bell	1876
Telephone Handset		Cyril Duquet	1878
Standard Time		Sir Sanford Fleming	1878
Electric Cooking Range		Thomas Ahearn	1882
Electric Streetcar		John Joseph Wright	1883
Complexion Cosmetic		Isabella Cornell	1885
Panoramic Picture Camera		John Connon	1887
Skates Blades that Attach to Boots	and long blade (speed) skates	J. A. Whepley	1888
Phonograph/Gramophone		Alexander Graham Bell & Emile Berliner	1889
Electric Car Heater		Thomas Ahearn	1890
Process to Extract Bromine		Herbert Henry Dow	~1890 ?
Portable Film Developing System	Sold patents to George Eastman (Kodak) in 1903	Arthur Williams McCurdy	1890
Basketball	the sport of basketball	James Naismith	1891
Nickel and iron alloy light bulb leads	Fessenden obtained 500 patents spanning many technologies	Reginald Aubrey Fessenden	1892
Calcium Carbide	viable Calcium Carbide process	Thomas Leopold Wilson 1860-1915	1892
Acetylene	viable production process	Thomas L. Wilson	1892
Silicon Steel alloy	used in electric motors	Reginald A. Fessenden	1892
Superphosphate Fertilizer	production process	Thomas L. Wilson	1896
Wireless Radio		Reginald A. Fessenden	1900
Creed Telegraph System	Converted Morse Code to Text	Fredick Creed	~1900 ?
	Commercial Motion Picture	Clifford Sifton	1903
Self-producing Acetylene Buoy		Thomas L. Wilson	1904
Radio-transmitted voice		Reginald A. Fessenden	1904
	First trans-Atlantic voice transmission	Reginald A. Fessenden	1905
Canada Dry Ginger Ale		John A. McLaughlin	1907
Robertson Screw		Peter L. Robertson	1908
Marquis Wheat		Sir Charles E. Saunders	1908
Hydrofoil Boats Dhonnas Beag (Little Devil)	Hydrodome #4 (HD4) held world speed record from 1919 until 1929 (70.86mph)	Alexander Graham Bell, Casey Baldwin	1908
5 Pin Bowling		Thomas E. Ryan	1909
Chocolate Bar		Arthur Ganong	1910
Twin Plane	first plane to fly powered by an air-cooled engine	W. W. Gibson	1910
Railway Car Brake	Dorey has 175 rail transport patents	George B. Dorey	1913
Sonar		Reginald A. Fessenden	1914
Tracer Bullets		Reginald A. Fessenden	1914
Macpherson Gas Mask		Dr. Cluny Macpherson	1915
Process to Extract Helium from Natural Gas		Sir John Cunningham McLennan	1915
Insulin Process		Drs. Fredrick Banting, J. J. Macleod, Best, Collip	1921
Fathometer	(precursor to sonar)	Reginald A. Fessenden	1919
Snowmobile	Ski-Doo	Joseph-Armand Bombardier	1922
Variable Pitch Aircraft Propellor		Walter Rupert Turnbull	1922
Synchronized Swiming	ornamental or scientific swimming		1923
Wirephoto		Sir William Stephenson	1924
AC Radio Tube		Edward Samuels Rogers	1925
Snowblower		Arthur Sicard	1925
Zipper		Gideon Sundback	1913
Television		Reginald A. Fessenden	1927
Electric Organ		Morse Robb	1928
Frozen Food		Dr. Archibald Hunstman	1929
Oil-Electric Locomotive		Samuel J. Hungerford	1929
Pablum		Drs. Alan Brown, Fredrick Tisdale, Theodore Drake	1930
Infrasizer and Superpanner	Steel Ball Grinders	H.E.T. Hautain	1930
Polymerized Methyl Methacrylate	(Plexiglas/Perspex/Lucite - acrylics)	William Chalmers	1931
Table-top Hockey Game		Don Munro	1932
Television Camera	1st modern television camera patent	F. C. P. Henroteau	1934
	Norseman Bush Aircraft	Robert Noorduyun	1936
Electron Microscope		Eli Franklin Burton, Cecil Hall, James Hillier, Albert Prebus	1937
Jiger ATV	Jiger 6 wheeled all-terrain-vehicle	John Gower	1937
Self-propelled Combine		Thomas Carroll	1938
Process to Obtain Magnesium		Dr. Lloyd M. Pidgeon	1939
Paint Roller		Norman Breakey	1940
Franks Anti-gravity Suit	enables pilots to withstand high G forces	Wilbur Rounding Franks	1941
Propellor De-Icer	Electrothermal Aircraft De-icing	T. R. Griffith & John L. Orr	1941
Walkie-Talkie		Donald L. Hings	1942
Electronic Music	Synthesizer	Hugh Le Caine	1945
Mapping Camera Calibrator		Les Howlett	1945
Automatic Control of Machine Tools	AMCRO	Eric W. Leaver	1946
	Electronic Flight Simulator	CAE Electronics Ltd.	1947
	Radar Profile Mapping Recorder	National Research Council of Canada	1947
Hydrometallurgy of Nickel & Copper		Dr. F. A. S. Forward	1949-1952
	Jetliner	James Floyd	1949
Polyethylene Garbage Bag		Harry Wasylyk	1950
	first commercial jet airmail	Avro C-102	1950
Heart Pacemaker		Dr. John A. Hopps	1950
Disposable Bag Nurser		Jean Saint-Germain	1950
Cobalt Bomb	Cobalt 60 Cancer Radiation Therapy	Dr. Harold Johns & Team	1951
Position Homing Indicator (PHI)	automatic dead reckoning aircraft navigation instrument - indicates position and course	Parsons, Dunlop & Curran	1952
Synthetic Sucrose		Dr. Raymond Lemieux	1953
Tuck-away-handle Beer Carton		Steve Pasjac	1957
Humane Fur-animal Trap		Frank Conibear	1957
Automatic Postal Sorter	200,000 letters per hour	Maurice Levy	1957
Analytical Plotter	3D Map Making System - From Aerial Photographs	Uno Vilho Helava	1957
R-Theta Navigation System	continuous display of distance and compass heading to home base	J.E.G. Wright	1958
Crash Position Indicator	soft-landing radio location transmitter deployed just before a aircraft crash	Harry T. Stevinson, David M. Makow	1959
Muskol Insect Repellant		Charles Coll	1959
Jolly Jumper		Olivia Poole	1959
	Bone Marrow Compatibility Test	Barbara Bain	1960
Goalie Mask		Jaques Plante	1960
	CANDU Reactor	Atomic Energy of Canada	1962
Instant Mashed Potatoes	(dehydrated potato flakes)	Edward A. Asselbergs	1962
Perforated Breakwater		G. E. Jarlan	1963
Stereo-orthography Map Making System - From Aerial Photographs		T.J. Blachut, Stanley Collins	1965
	Non-rejected Liposomes for Drug Delivery	Dr. Terry Allen	1965
Rapseed Testing Process		Dr. Kieth Downey	1965
Football Goalpost	"Slingshot" style	Jim Trimble	1965
Rotary blow molding machine	for manufacturing hollow plastic items like bottles	Gustave C�t�	1966
Agrifoam Crop Cold Protector		D. siminovitch & J. W. Butler	1967
	Pictographs for Public Signage	Paul Arthur	1967
Long Basline Interferometer	to measure small objects in space	Allan Yen, John Galt, Jack Locke, Norman Broten, Robin Chisholm	1968
IMax Movie System		Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr	1968
Keefer Battery	Carbohydrate Fuel Cell	Richard Keefer	1968
CEA Cancer Test	carcino embryonic antigen test	Phil Gold	1968
Maple-sap Tapping Method	Using Vacuum	Denis Desilets	1970
SlickLicker	Oil Spill Cleanup	Richard Sewell	1970
Explosives Vapour Detector		Lorne Elias	?
Laser Sailboat		Bruce Kirby, Hans Fogh, Ian Bruce	1970
UV-degradable Plastics		Dr. James Guillet	1971
	Electric Prosthetic Hand	Helmut Lucas	1971
	Geostationary Communications Satelite	Telesat Canada	1972
Polypump Liquid Dispenser		Harold Humphery	1972
Computerized Braille		Roland Galarneau	1972
Roadway Guardrail		Lloyd Pinkney, Gordon Basso, Fred McCaffrey	1973
	Stol Airtransit	De Haviland Aircraft	1974
Safety Paint	glass-embedded high reflectivity paint	Neil Harpham	1974
Tone-to-pulse Converter		Michael Cowpland	1974
	Treatment for Sick Elm Trees	Kondo, Jorgensen, Roy	1975
	CANADARM Robotic Space Arm	Spar Aerospace/NRC	1975
Wood Feed	Cellulose based cattle feed	Herb Kabfleisch	1975
Automatic Image Correlator	recognized 3D contours and shapes in photographs	G. Hobrough	1975
Gestalt Photo Mapper	produced 3D digital terrain models from photographs	G. Hobrough	1975
CN Tower	World's Tallest Freestanding Structure	Canadaian National Railways	1975
Trivial Pursuit		Chris Haney & Scott Abbott	1980
Light Pipe		Lorne Whitehead	1980
Puttacup	Heat Vent Putting Hole	Paul Wilson	1981
	Cancer Blood Test	Dr. Phil Gold	1982
Emulsified Rubber Asphalt		Elaine Thompson	1982
Film Colourization	video colourization	Wilson Markle	1983
Abdominizer	Sit-up Exersize Device	Dennis Colonello	1984
Able Walker		Norm Rolston	1986
	Helicopter Fire-Fighting Bucket	Don Arney	1986
Silicon Chip Blood Analyzer	several other patents - - -	Imants Lauks	1986
Nursing Mother Breast Pads		Marsha Skrypuch	1986
Fox 40 Whistle	warbling sports/alarm whistle - no moving parts	Ron Foxcroft	1987
	discoverd the gene that carries the cystic fibrosis defect	lap-Chee Tsui & team	1989
	Advanced Space-Vision System	NRC/Canadian Space Agency	1992
Ski-Wiz	Water Ski Training Device	Pam Townsend	1992
JAVA	Programming Language	James Gosling	1994
Dynastat Wheel	The Dynastat wheel is powered by a radial motor inside the rim	W.E. Thorton-Trump	?
Spirit Level to Measure Angle		Alexander More Chisholm	?
	Hot Water Process to Extract Oil from Tar Sands	Karl A. Clark	?
Manipulo	Motorized Articulated Arm for Wheelcharirs	Jacques Forest	?
Roller Skate		Wallace Freeborn	?