Invention In Canada
This article outlines the history of Canadian technological invention. Technologies chosen for treatment here include, in rough order, transportation, communication, energy, materials, industry, public works, public services (health care), domestic/consumer and defence technologies.
The terms chosen for the "age" described below are both literal and metaphorical. They describe the technology that dominated the period of time in question but are also representative of a large number of other technologies introduced during the same period. Also of note is the fact that the period of invention of a technology can begin modestly and can extend well beyond the "age" of its introduction. To maintain continuity, the complete treatment of an invention is dealt with in the context of its dominant "age".
Read more about Invention In Canada: The Stone Age: Fire 14,000 BC – AD 1600, The Age of Sail: Ships, Symbolic Language, and The Wheel (1600 – 1830), The Steam Age: Trains, Telegraphs, Water, and Oil (1830 – 1880), The Electric Age: Light, Telephones, Heavy Manufacturing, Skyscrapers and Central Heating (1880 – 19, Killing Machines I: Artillery and Machine Guns (1914 – 1918), The Automobile Age: Cars, Planes and Radios (1920 – 1950), Killing Machines II: Bombers, Tanks, Corvettes and Radar (1939 – 1945), The Television Age: TV, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Energy, and Computers (1950 – 1980), The PC Age: The Microchip and Mobile Communications (1980 – 2000), The Internet Age: Wireless Technology, Mega Oil and Ecological Friendliness (2000 – Present), See Also
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