Famous Canadian Inventors
* Alexander Graham Bell, (1847-1922), Invented the telephone in Canada, developed it in US. (Canadian/American/Scot)
* Joseph-Armand Bombardier - invented the snowmobile
* J. Brown - invented the washing machine
* Thomas Carroll - first self-propelled combine harvester
* Mathew Evans - co-inventor of the first electric light bulb
* Charles Fenerty - pulp to paper process
* Reginald Fessenden, (1866-1932), inventor the Radiotelephone and sonar-produced 1st radio broadcast
* Sir Sandford Fleming, (1827-1915), inventor of the system of standard time zones in use today
* Wilbur R. Franks - invented the "anti-black-out-suit" (the G-suit)
* James Gosling, (born 1956), invented Java computer language * Larry Hanson - co-inventor of green plastic garbage bag * Sam Jacks - inventor of ringette * Rasmus Lerdorf - invented PHP computer language used on Internet * Elijah McCoy, (born 1844), Black inventor, automatic machinery lubricator, lawn sprinkler, the "real McCoy" * Samuel McKeen - invented the Odometer * P.L. Robertson invented the Robertson screw | |
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