Military History | How To Make War | Wars Around the World Rules of Use How to Behave on an Internet Forum
Canada Discussion Board
   Return to Topic Page
Subject: 100 greatest canadian inventions
Ehran    1/4/2007 12:24:41 PM
watched parts of the special last nite and it's surprising the stuff the we've come up with over the years. one thing that did especially make me proud to be a canuck though was the selfless attitudes of some of our inventor types. the guys that created pablum for example saved many thousands of babies from death by malnutrition and yet the profits from pablum were plowed back into medical research. the guy who developed the electric wheelchair gave the patent to the us gov't to get the chairs into high volume production as quickly as possible. even insulin was licensed out with getting it into large scale production as quickly as possible being the motivation.
 
Quote    Reply

Show Only Poster Name and Title     Newest to Oldest
Pages: 1 2
Maple man       1/31/2007 11:24:36 PM
telephone,basketball,and lightbulb
 
Quote    Reply

Ehran       2/2/2007 2:13:10 PM
if you want to start a war explain to an american that none of their national pastimes are actually american.  hockey, football and basketball are canadian and baseball was played in england a hundred years before abner's efforts.
 
Quote    Reply

Griffin       2/11/2007 12:51:10 AM
From a military standpoint you could add that the Canadians introduced such things as the rolling barrage, leap frog movements in WWI instead of lining up enmass and attacking massed machine guns, etc. and in WWII developed the first use on a major scale of Kangaroos for amphibious work in flooded Holland.  These were our first APC's designed by removing turrets etc. from tanks and other armour vehicles.  While other vehicles carried troops the Kangaroos were the first to have good armour protection and carry more than a few troops.
 
Quote    Reply

Ehran       2/11/2007 3:15:22 PM
read an article once where they talked to this one german who said he hated the canadians because their personnel carriers were machine gun proof pretty much.  he considered it quite unfair to use such vehicles. 
 
Quote    Reply

the British Lion       2/11/2007 4:13:55 PM

telephone,basketball,and lightbulb


Telephone = Graham Bell was Scotish.
Basketball = who cares?!?
Lightbulb = Invented in Britain and Canada years before Edison made his.
 
Sorry Ehran, had to jump in to jump on his ego :-)
 
As for Canadian inventions, can't say I'm too familier with them... if you have a link or two I'd love to read up on them. Thanks for the Insulin though! Wouldn't be alive without it...
 
Reguards,
 
B.L.
 
Quote    Reply

the British Lion    oops   2/11/2007 4:16:59 PM
Just realized Mapal Man wasn't dissing Canada... now I feel like an ass  
 
When I said I wasn't too familier with Canadian inventions, I really wasn't joking!
 
B.L.
 
Quote    Reply

Ehran       2/12/2007 12:10:48 PM
you might try the cbc website.  they just showed a documentary about the 100 greatest canadian inventions which leads me to think there is a book somewhere in the background.
 
 
 
 
typing canadian inventions into google produces a nice long list.  you might also try scottish inventions as google bait.  great bloody long list there too.  if memory serves at least for a while canadians held more patents per capita than anyone else in the world. 
 
Quote    Reply

Sucari       4/15/2007 12:00:25 AM




telephone,basketball,and lightbulb




Telephone = Graham Bell was Scotish.
Basketball = who cares?!?

Lightbulb = Invented in Britain and Canada years before Edison made his.

 

Sorry Ehran, had to jump in to jump on his ego :-)

 

As for Canadian inventions, can't say I'm too familier with them... if you have a link or two I'd love to read up on them. Thanks for the Insulin though! Wouldn't be alive without it...

 

Reguards,

 

B.L.


 
So... he had moved to cnada when he was a child and had been living here ever since.
 
Quote    Reply

kalaloch       4/15/2007 10:01:08 AM
Canada has, for decades, demonstrated it's the best refuge for men (and women) who suddenly refuse to honor a vow of national service. Also, Canada leads the pack in bi-lingual statements and even printing on items from cigarette packs to bags of potato chips.
I definitely give them high marks in each category.
 
Quote    Reply

Ehran       4/15/2007 2:25:54 PM

Canada has, for decades, demonstrated it's the best refuge for men (and women) who suddenly refuse to honor a vow of national service. Also, Canada leads the pack in bi-lingual statements and even printing on items from cigarette packs to bags of potato chips.

I definitely give them high marks in each category.


if you are complaining about the vietnam war draft dodgers etc you would do well to know that nearly 60000 canadians walked across the line and signed up for the us army and marines specifically to fight in vietnam.  i've met a few of them and frankly i think you got the better of that trade.
 
Quote    Reply
1 2



 Latest
 News 		  Most
 Read 		  Most
 Commented		  Hot
 Topics