CANADA!!!!!!

[Marcus Wolfe]

I KNOW Canada day was yesterday, but I just want to show my appreciation for my nation's great heroes,inventions and innovations, and besides I only thought of this today.

Heroes like Paul Bunyun and Terry Fox.

Inventions like the Zipper and Snowmobiles.

Innovations like Penicillin and Canola!

Go

 

CANADA

!!!!!!!

[Abramul]

Penicillin?

The zipper is, at best, debatable.

[Sleepy_Sophie]

not a rawr though ;D

[ninja_lord666]

Paul Bunyan isn't real; you know that right?

 

The true zipper was the product of a series of incremental improvements over more than twenty years, by inventors and engineers associated with a sequence of companies that were the progenitors of Talon, Inc. This process began with a version called the "clasp locker", invented by Whitcomb L. Judson of Chicago (previously of Minneapolis and New York City), and for which a patent (No. 504,038) was first applied for on Nov. 7, 1891. It culminated in 1914 with the invention, by Gideon Sundback, of the "Hookless Fastener No. 2", which was the first version of the zipper without any major design flaws, and which was essentially indistinguishable from modern zippers.

In short, the zipper was made in USA.

 

The first United States patent for a snow-vehicle using the now recognized format of rear track(s) and front skis was issued to Ray H. Muscott of Waters, MI on June 27, 1916 with U.S. Patent # 1,188,981. Many individuals later modified Ford Model Ts with the undercarriage replaced with tracks and skis following this design. They were popular for rural mail delivery for a time. Polaris Industries in Roseau, Minnesota, in the United States Midwest, was a pioneer in the production of purpose-built snowmobiles.

Again, US made.

 

Penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, a Scottish scientist!

 

The only things you got right were Terry Fox and Canola. Stop lying to try and make Canada look better.

[Abramul]

It would appear, though, that the single-person version common today was Canadian in origin.

[Marcus Wolfe]

Okay, I'll accept Paul Bunyun never existed, he's just the spirit of lumberjacking.

It was insulin, not penicillin, I was thinking about.

But have you people never heard of Bombardier?

Here's what Wikipedia says:

 

Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a mechanic who dreamt of building a vehicle that could "float on snow." In 1937, he designed and produced his first snowmobile in his small repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec.

Joseph-Armand Bombardier's technological breakthrough in the design of bush vehicles came in the mid-1930s when he developed a drive system that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions. In 1937, Armand sold 12 snowmobiles—named the B7 and, in 1942, created l'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée company.

 

 

Your so called 'snow mobiles' were just modded cars. The first snow mobile came from the land of the ice and snow where the hot springs flow.......sorry, I went a little Led Zeppelin there. (they're not Canadian, just for the record)