Does your country have an iconic product? (credit, school)
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Canada is not too good at grabbing patents and marketing to the world and blowing its horn about it, but there have been some pretty important inventions:
Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best]
Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
Snowmobile [1922, Armand Bombardier]
BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada]
Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
Land [ca. 1000, Lief Ericson]
You meant ALL those things were not invented by the Americans?? This list must be a shock for many
Canada is not too good at grabbing patents and marketing to the world and blowing its horn about it, but there have been some pretty important inventions:
Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best] Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
Snowmobile [1922, Armand Bombardier]
BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada]
Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
Land [ca. 1000, Lief Ericson]
Canada is not too good at grabbing patents and marketing to the world and blowing its horn about it, but there have been some pretty important inventions:
Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best]
Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
Snowmobile [1922, Armand Bombardier]
BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada]
Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
Land [ca. 1000, Lief Ericson]
No disrespect, but that list is highly inaccurate. I'm assuming you got it online and it's one of those "inventions made in X country" lists. They are often spun, regardless of the country being credited, if not flat out wrong. Many of these list the first to successfully market an invention.
Several of those were invented by Americans or other nationalities, sometimes who just happened to be in Canada at the time of it's marketing. The telephone, for example, was made by a Scot who temporarily resided in Nova Scotia before moving to the US and becoming a citizen. The zipper was similarly made by an American(s), but the guy who made it just happened to first market it in Canada, thus it is often confused with being a Canadian invention. The snowmobile was invented in Michigan by an American at least 20 years before more Bombardier's more popular snowmobile, yet Bombardier is listed as the inventor. There are many others there that were also invented by Americans or other nationalities and are on that list.
Now Insulin, THAT was hands down a Canadian discovery, and arguably the Canada's best. It was a really, really, big deal back in those days. It was the first time a Canadian university entered the scientific limelight in a big way, got people really excited about increased independence from the British Empire.
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Originally Posted by elnina
You meant ALL those things were not invented by the Americans?? This list must be a shock for many
You are being sarcastic, but actually many of them were invented by Americans. The list is wrong.
^ Canada is very eager to toot its horn at every opportunity...about anything. I wish Americans were as boastful about our inventions/inventors as Canadians rather than our entertainers.
No, you see, American aren't allowed to do that. Only other nationalities can.
KLM
Royal Dutch Shell
Unilever (Anglo-Dutch)
Gouda & Edam cheese
Heineken
Philips
TomTom (GPS)
Randstad (human resource service provider)
ING (banking and financial services)
Aegon (life insurance, pensions, asset management) iDeal (not known abroad but by far the most common online payment method in The Netherlands. Far more popular than credit cards or Paypal and far more practical as well)
Concepts
Total Football
Water management (Delta Works)
Capitalism (invented the stock market)
Liberalism (not the American political kind)
Dance music (Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Afrojack, Ferry Corsten)
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