Canada's Inventors & Innovators - Exercise

Canadian inventors have patented more than one million inventions yet most inventors in the world of science and technology go un-recognized. Canadians have created many new innovations and have started initiatives that are recognized around the world. Match the Canadian inventor/innovator on the left with their invention/innovation on the right. Place the number in the space provided.

Inventor/Innovator Invention/Innovation 1. James Gosling -discovered gene carrying cystic fibrosis defect

2. Imants Lauks -computerized Braille

3. Terry Fox -first pulp paper plant & newsprint

4. Lap-Chee Tsui and Team -Marquis wheat

5. Spar Aerospace/National Research -first proposed universal health care system for Council Canada and introduced mobile blood banks on the battlefield 6. Dr. Norman Bethune -telephone

7. Thomas Carroll -snowblower

8. Dr. Henri Breault -silicon chip blood analyzer

9. Roland Galarneau -first commercial jet transport in western hemisphere 10. Arthur Sicard -JAVA programming language

11. Reginald Fessenden -television camera

12. Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. Charles Best, -"Marathon of Hope" raising 24.7 million for and James C. Collip cancer research 13. Joseph-Armand Bombardier -Bliss Board using blissymbolics

14. James Floyd _zipper

15. Rachel Zimmerman -electric street car , electric oven

16. Sir Charles Saunders -wireless AM radio and television system

17. Thomas Ahearn -automatic potato digger

18. F. C. P. Henroteau -snowmobile

19. Gideon Sunback -cancer treatment using cobalt 60

20. William Allin and William Stiggins -self-propelled combine harvester

21. Charles Fenerty -insulin

22. Alexander Graham Bell -child-proof medicine cap

23. Dr. Thomas Green -CANADARM Robotic Space Arm