Canadian Inventors - All About Canadian Inventors and Inventions

Canadian have patented more than one million inventions, but yet few people can name one inventor from Canada. A listing of some of those great practical gifts invented by Canadians.

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On July 27, 1921, Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best first isolated insulin and within a year, the first human sufferers of diabetes were receiving insulin treatments.

Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone -- plus more telephone and cellular phone history.

In 1922, Joseph-Armand Bombardier developed the type of sport machine that we know today as the snowmobile.

Invented Actar 911, the CPR mannequin.

Herbert Dow was the Canadian inventor of a process of extracting Bromine, the founder of Dow Chemicals, who also invented electric light carbons, steam and internal combustion engines, automatic furnace controls, and water seals.

In 1900, Reginald Fessenden transmitted the world's first voice message.

John Garand invented the M1 semiautomatic rifle or Garand rifle in 1934.

Abraham Gesner was the Canadian inventor of kerosene and known as the "Father or the Petroleum Industry."

Gosling invented Java, a programming language and environment.

Canadian, Imants Lauks invented the silicon chip blood analyzer in 1986.

Music synthesizer invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945.

Cluny MacPherson invented the MacPherson gas mask and started the first St. John's Ambulance Brigade.

Developed the first quartz clock.

McCoy is best known for inventing the automatic oil cup. During his life, McCoy invented and sold 57 different kinds of devices and machine parts including an ironing board and a lawn sprinkler.

John McLaughlin invented Ginger Ale in 1907.

James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891.

Canadian, Arthur Sicard invented the snowblower in 1925.

Gideon Sundback invented the "Separable Fastener" or zipper.

Harry Wasylyk invented the green garbage bag.

Thomas Leopold Willson invented a process for Calcium Carbide.

Alexander Graham Bell, Dr. Frederick G. Banting and Dr. Charles H. Best, F. Henroteau, Prof. E. F. Burton, J. G. Wright, Dr. W.R. Franks, George Albert Lyons and Angus MacDonnel.

An essay on the plight of innovators written by Dr. A. J. Carty, President of the National Research Council. Dr. Carty talks about why few people know what Canadians have invented. "Our nation and our economy have truly been built around the strength of our natural resources. But we are also a nation of inventors."

Meet and learn about the great minds from Canada who have made history.

A list of Canadian inventions. Canadians have been responsible for some of the best inventions of our time, but a National Science Literacy Survery showed that two-thirds of Canadians aren't able to name even one Canadian innovator!