Canadians didn't invent the zipper. This video is full of shit. |
The man who invented the zipper was from Sweden but owned the company that discovered and produced the zipper was in Canada. So yes, technically it is a Canadian invention because it was invented in our Country. The man who worked at the company became the president and head desinger and had citizenship in America and Canada. Also a couple of Canadian inventors invented the lightbulb, which is not commonly known. Edison merely just bought the patent to the lightbulb and improved it.
List of Canadian inventions, may shock Americans because yeah, you guys didn't invent them GASP
-Telephone (Alexander Bell - Scottish/Canadian
-Insulin (Frederick Grant Banting - Canadian, John Macleod - Scottish
-TV Camera (yeah the one we all still use today) Francois Henroteau - French Canadian
-Zipper (TLFC of Canada)
-Java Programming (James Gosling - Canadian)
-Alkaline Battery - (Lewis Urry - Canadian)
-Radio Voice Technology (Radio Broadcasting) (Reginald Fessenden - Canadian - Debated whether he was the first to invent, but was the first to broadcast)
-Music synthesizer - (Hugh Le Caine - Canadian, Also helped develop some of the first radar systems)
-Lightbulb - (Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans (Both Canadian)
-Electric Oven (Modern Day Overn) (Thomas Ahearn - Canadian)
-Electric Car Heater (Thomas Ahearn - Canadian)
-Washing Machine (James Brown, Scottish/Canadian)
-Imax - (Grahame Ferguson - Canadian)
-Sonar - (Reginald Fessenden - Canadian)
-North American Television (Reginald Fessenden - Canadian) (I've never understood why they claim North American Television, he has an official patent in 1919, which is the first in North America but I haven't read anywhere about a european or other country before this)
-Wireless Telephone (Reginald Fessenden - Canadian)
-M1 Garand - John Garand (Canadian/American) (Born in Canada, lived in America his life, so doesn't really count and he was a frenchman...ewwww just kidding Mario ;])
-Blackberry (Canadian Billionaire Jim Balsillie)
There's a ton more. Enough for Canadians to be proud of ;]. So stick your chins up Canadian brothers, don't let these jealous yanks get you down! Haha jk you Americans, we still love you. Look we even let you use our cool inventions like the phone! We are a small country literally 10 times smaller than America. Yet we have invented, and have been involved in some of the most common household things today like the TV, Radio, Lightbulbs, all that cool stuff we use today. I'm an overly proud Canadian though, and often like to show it.
So check out some more inventions if you get bored. Not sure how accurate all of these are, but I usually check em out before I brag about them being Canadian.
http://careerchem.com/NAMED/Canadian-Inventions.html
Also wanted to point out my favorite Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden to my fellow Canadians, he doesn`t get enough credit. Much like the Austrian/American Nikola Tesla. They don't really teach him in school and yet he has invented so many important things. Check him out too at
http://www.ieee.ca/millennium/radio/radio_unsung.html