List of Canadians - Inventors

Inventors

  • Abbott, Scott (unknown) – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
  • Ahearn, Thomas PC(1855–1938) – invented the electric cooking range and the electric car heater
  • Barringer, Anthony R. (born 1925) – 70 patents for mineral exploration technology
  • Bascom, Earl W. (1906–1995) – co-invented rodeo's side-delivery chute, invented reverse-opening side-delivery chute, hornless bronc saddle, one-hand bareback rigging and high-cut chaps
  • Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922) – born in Scotland, invented the telephone in Canada and developed it in the United States
  • Bombardier, Joseph-Armand (1907–1964) – invented the snowmobile
  • Bull, Gerald (1928–1990) – invented the G5 howitzer and the Iraqi supergun
  • Carroll, Thomas (1888–1868) – developed first self-propelled combine harvester
  • Dow, Herbert Henry (1866–1930) – invented a method of bromine extraction known as the Dow process
  • Evans, Mathew (unknown) – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb
  • Fenerty, Charles (c. 1821–1892) – Canadian inventor of the wood pulp process for making paper.
  • Fessenden, Reginald (1866–1932) – radio inventor who made the first radio-transmitted audio transmission and the first two-way transatlantic radio transmission; also invented sonar and patented the first television system
  • Sir Fleming, Sandford (1827–1915) – inventor of the system of Standard Time zones
  • Franks, Wilbur R. (1901–1986) – invented the anti-black-out-suit (the G-suit)
  • Gesner, Abraham Pineo (1797–1864) – inventor of kerosene; known as the "Father of the Petroleum Industry"
  • Gosling, James (born 1955) – invented Java computer language
  • Haney, Chris (1950–2010) – co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit
  • Jacks, Sam (1915–1975) – inventor of ringette
  • Klein, George (1904–1992) – developed: electric wheelchairs, microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, and the Canadarm
  • Krogh, Thomas Edward (born 1936) – developed technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating to further the precision of geochronology
  • Le Caine, Hugh (1914–1977) – invented the music synthesizer in 1945
  • McCoy, Elijah (1844–1929) – developed automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "Real McCoy"
  • MacPherson, Cluny (1879–1966) – invented the first general-issue gas mask used by the British Army in World War I
  • Markle, Wilson – (born 1938) – invented film colorization process in 1983
  • Naismith, James (1861–1939) – invented basketball
  • Robertson, Peter Lymburner (1879–1951) – invented the Robertson Screw
  • Ruttan, Henry (June 12, 1792 – July 31, 1871) – invented air-conditioned railway coach
  • Ryan, Thomas F. (1872–1971) – invented five-pin bowling
  • Sicard, Arthur (unknown) invented the snowblower in 1925
  • Sunatori, Simon (born 1959) – engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; created the MagneScribe and the Magic Spicer
  • Urry, Lewis (1927–2004) – invented the long-lasting alkaline battery
  • Wasylyk, Harry – (born 1925) – invented the disposable green polyethylene garbage bag in 1950
  • Willson, Thomas (1860–1915) – invented arc lamps and process for creating calcium carbide
  • Woodward, Henry (unknown) – co-inventor of the first electric light bulb

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Famous quotes containing the word inventors:

    “In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In America, the geography is sublime, but the men are not: the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
    —Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)