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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:09 pm
by Doombrain
Turbine wrote:Canada has much more purposeful inventions we all take for granted
- *Alkaline battery
*Ardox Spiral Nail
*Basketball
*Canoe
*BlackBerry
*Bloody Caesar
*Canadarm
*Caulking gun
*Electric Oven
*Electric Wheelchair
*Electron Microscope
*Electronic Music Synthesizer
*Explosives Vapour Detector
*Five Pin Bowling
*Fog horn
*Goalie mask
*G-Suit
*Instant Mashed Potatoes
*Instant Replay
*Insulin
*Java programming language
*Key Frame Animation
*Lacrosse
*Light Bulb
*Marine Screw Propeller
*Pacemaker
*Paint roller
*Plexiglas
*Poutine
*Radio Voice Transmission
*Retractable Beer Carton Handle
*Robertson screw
*Separable Baggage Check
*Ski-Doo
*Snowblower
*Standard Time
*Telephone
*UV Degradable Plastics
*Walkie-Talkie
*Wonderbra
*Zipper
there's a lot of shit there. bullshit.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:10 pm
by Turbine
They are all Canadian inventions.
Including these 2 huge ones;
The Lightbulb.
On July 24, 1874 a Canadian patent was filed for the Woodward and Evans Light by a Toronto medical electrician named Henry Woodward and a colleague Mathew Evans. They built their lamps with different sizes and shapes of carbon filaments held between electrodes in glass globes filled with nitrogen. Woodward and Evans attempted to commercialise their bulb, but were unsuccessful. Nonetheless, Thomas Edison considered their approach sufficiently promising that he bought the rights to both their Canadian and US patents before embarking on his own light bulb development program.
Zipper
The true zipper, and the design used today, is based on interlocking teeth. It was invented in St. Catharines, Ontario by Gideon Sundback, a Swedish-born immigrant to Canada who was in 1913 the top designer at Universal Fastener Company. He made his first "Hookless fastener" in 1913, and designed the complex machinery needed to manufacture it. The patent was issued in 1917 as a "separable fastener." The B. F. Goodrich Company coined the name Zipper in 1923 for the line of rubber overshoes that it made using the fastener. The name slowly came to be associated with the fastener itself, and eventually acquired generic status.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:12 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
lol, nice laff
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:16 pm
by Turbine
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:19 pm
by Doombrain
Doombrain wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqb-cQ-VJFA
stick that up ya nix
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:22 pm
by Turbine
Yeah, it's still not up.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:22 pm
by Doombrain
wtf
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:23 pm
by Turbine
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:25 pm
by Doombrain
yeah anyway it's my mac owning your shitty pc and its free os
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:26 pm
by seremtan
Turbine wrote:Canada has much more purposeful inventions we all take for granted
- *Alkaline battery
*Ardox Spiral Nail
*Basketball
*Canoe
*BlackBerry
*Bloody Caesar
*Canadarm
*Caulking gun
*Electric Oven
*Electric Wheelchair
*Electron Microscope
*Electronic Music Synthesizer
*Explosives Vapour Detector
*Five Pin Bowling
*Fog horn
*Goalie mask
*G-Suit
*Instant Mashed Potatoes
*Instant Replay
*Insulin
*Java programming language
*Key Frame Animation
*Lacrosse
*Light Bulb
*Marine Screw Propeller
*Pacemaker
*Paint roller
*Plexiglas
*Poutine
*Radio Voice Transmission
*Retractable Beer Carton Handle
*Robertson screw
*Separable Baggage Check
*Ski-Doo
*Snowblower
*Standard Time
*Telephone
*UV Degradable Plastics
*Walkie-Talkie
*Wonderbra
*Zipper
'canada' didn't invent those things. they were invented by canadians, and most of them are bollocks
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:29 pm
by Scourge
Turbine wrote:
Oh free, beat that Vista. :icon32: :icon32:
I've got several linux distros. I still use windows. Oh and this page renders instantly for me too. :icon28:
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:29 pm
by seremtan
Doombrain wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqb-cQ-VJFA
i see a lot of 'related videos' have to do with nerds
splain?
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:30 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
i saw it. spinning objects, q3w in safari, a goofy laff, more spinning, end of show.
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:30 pm
by seremtan
and check out the obligatory 'unban keep it real' comment on your profile
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:31 pm
by Doombrain
i put nerd as a tag
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:31 pm
by Massive Quasars
BT for fraud
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:33 pm
by seremtan
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:33 pm
by Doombrain
seremtan wrote:and check out the obligatory 'unban keep it real' comment on your profile
lol
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:33 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
white nigger
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:35 pm
by Doombrain
seremtan wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzl_URci-J0
just sad, really
fulltime g
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:36 pm
by seremtan
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:37 pm
by ek
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:38 pm
by Doombrain
he's a fucking crack pot
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:40 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
ek wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSl1GH4FiMk&NR
rofl
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:44 pm
by seremtan