canadian inventions

[Plato]

im bored
lets see how many candian inventions we can list

the zipper
basketball
the pain roller
ski-doo snow mobiles
STOL bush airplanes
the mcintosh apple
the telephone
"pablum"
push up bra ("wonderbra 1300")
trivial pursuit
canola oil

hmm...what else...

p[l]a+0

 

[Tonedeff]

insulin
space arm
ballard fuel cell (hydrogen fuel cell)
poutine
vector cereal
natasha henstridge

 

[JayIsBored]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Tonedeff:
natasha henstridge</font>

she could have reproduced with me or tore out my spine...either way i wouldn't have minded

 

[stargurl*]

- electon microscope
- pacemakers
- IMAX
- Java
- walkie talkies
- gramophone
- newsprint
- odometers
- plexiglas
- the robertson screw
- snowblowers
- electric streetcars
- standard time
- avro arrow
- washing machines
- 5 pin bowling
- goalie masks
- ski bindings
- roller skates

 

[C-NiCE]

The Zamboni
dental mirror
ear piercer
Pictionary
snow blower (duh!)
ginger ale

 

[PosTMOd]

Robertson head screws... you know, the square head ones?

They are much easier to use... but, since they are Canadian, those stupid Americans won't use them... idiots...

 

[lucky1]

The Candu Reactor =&gt; I don't know if this is a good invention though since it is the type of reactor most developing nations have for their nucleaar process.

 

[Ditto Much]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by PosTMOd:
Robertson head screws... you know, the square head ones?

They are much easier to use... but, since they are Canadian, those stupid Americans won't use them... idiots...</font>

Henry Ford refused to use them unless he got exclusive US distribution rights. Robertson said no and thus americans have never seen them.


electric cooking range
film developing tank
garbage bag (the green ones anyway)
insulation (The fiber glass stuff who'd have guessed)
machine gun tracer bullet
retractable beer carton handle (they don't really use them anymore)
variable Pitch Propeller

 

[stir-fry]

Pamela Anderson

 

[Guest]

-Shark's with freak'n lasers attached to their heads.

 

[pr0nstar]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Galactic Phantom:
-Shark's with freak'n lasers attached to their heads.</font>

ROFLMAO!!

 

[Jeremy Jive]

BASKETBALL but the Americans try to steal that too.
Lacross (A native Canadian game)

and most of all, the tribe board

jeremy -we make everything good- jive

 

[Guest]

Fem-bots

 

[DarkRave]

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Happy Wednesday!

love and laughter..

pen

 

[seeker]

it is my understanding that the electric kettle was exclusively Canadian until recently

 

[djcheezwhiz]

hockey tape
earmuffs
poutine
left handed golfers
that fake fire videotape, the one they play on rogers cable 10 over the holidays
table hockey (or dome hockey)
kamik boots
lumberjackets
lumberjacks
lumberjack games
lumberjack songs

jc

 

[Tonedeff]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">gramophone</font>

invented by a German-American, Emile Berliner

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">telephone</font>

invented by a some guy born in Scotland, first call placed in Boston, Mass...not sure how this makes it a Canadian invention...because Bell talked about it when he was visiting his dad in Brantford? I guess...

 

[Chris]

Me,

Im a through and through Canadian invention,


oh now thats funny!!!!!

 

[Tonedeff]

"For example in a speech in 1909 in Ottawa, Alexander Graham Bell said: “Of this you may be sure, the telephone was invented in Canada. It was made in the United States.”

even Bell himself seemed confused about the genesis of his magical hand-talking-machine

I guess we'll call it a tie!

 

[janiecakes]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by seeker:
it is my understanding that the electric kettle was exclusively Canadian until recently</font>

how recent?

i was seeing them in the UK 6 or 7 years ago.

 

[Subsonic Chronic]

Milk sold in bags

Ok... not an invention, but it's still cool.

Pete

 

[seeker]

janiecakes:
uhhh.... am i busted?

it's probably less recent than that -- so i suppose not really recently at all -- but i remember being told when i was in grade school that they weren't available outside canada.

recent == &lt; 15 yrs?

 

[janiecakes]

i am the electric kettle police.