{"id":8210,"date":"2018-06-25T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2018-06-25T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:49:47","slug":"top-6-canadian-tech-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/archives\/8210-top-6-canadian-tech-inventions.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 6 Canadian Tech Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-Tech-Inventions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8211 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-Tech-Inventions.png\" alt=\"Top tech inventions invented by Canadians\" width=\"1280\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-Tech-Inventions.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-Tech-Inventions-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-Tech-Inventions-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canada-Tech-Inventions-1024x514.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The big weekend is ahead of us. Yes, July 1st is just a few days away. And if you\u2019re a Canadian, you already know what we\u2019re referring to.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If not, let us explain why this milestone is so important to us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">July 1st is the National day of Canada a.k.a. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada_Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canada Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On this day all Canadians celebrate the anniversary of the enactment of the Constitution Act, which united the three separate colonies of Canada (Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick) that took place on July 1st, 1867. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The holiday is celebrated nationwide with many outdoor public events, \u00a0parades, concerts, festivals, and of course, the traditional barbeque and fireworks. Since the festive spirit is already permeating our office, we\u2019ve decided to brush up on our knowledge of Canadian ingenuity and take a look at some inventions brought to us by those from Great White North.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there\u2019s a twist. We don\u2019t have enough time nor space to cover all the cool stuff Canadians invented such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peanut_butter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">peanut butter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, basketball or the garbage bag (you\u2019re welcome, World), so we have to narrow it down to the technological inventions and discoveries only. Here are the top 6 Canadian tech inventions picked by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/about\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investintech team<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>1) Java Programming Language<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Java-Programming-Language.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Java-Programming-Language.png\" alt=\"Java programming language\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Java-Programming-Language.png 640w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Java-Programming-Language-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>James Gosling<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>1994<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Gosling developed Java in California in the early 1990s. The Alberta-born computer scientist is considered to be the father of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Java_(programming_language)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Java<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but his colleagues at the time, Mike Sheridan and Patrick Naughton, helped him out. The language was designed with the intent to let application developers \u201cwrite once, run anywhere\u201d, meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. The first version was released in 1995 and to this day it remains one of the top programming languages in use. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>2) Cardiac Pacemaker<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cardiac-Pacemaker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cardiac-Pacemaker.jpg\" alt=\"Cardiac Pacemaker\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cardiac-Pacemaker.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Cardiac-Pacemaker-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Dr. John A. Hopps<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>1950<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cardiac pacemaker was invented in the 1950s by Dr. John Hopps, an electrician from Winnipeg. However, Hopps didn\u2019t come up with it on his own, he developed the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardiac_pacemaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">life-saving device<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> based on research from Dr. Wilfred Bigelow and Dr. John Callaghan from the Banting Institute in Toronto. Though it was invented in the 1950\u2019s, it took eight years for the first version to be successfully implanted within a human body. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>3) The Pager<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pager.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pager.jpg\" alt=\"Pager device\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pager.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Pager-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Alfred J. Gross<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>1949<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alfred Gross, a Toronto based communication pioneer, is the one we should thank for the invention of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the pager<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Though pagers are not that big of a deal as they were in the 1980s, they\u2019re still being used in some lines of work because in some cases paging systems can be more reliable than cellular networks. In fact, emergency services and public safety personnel still use it during natural and man-made disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>4) Imax Movie System<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMAX-CInema.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMAX-CInema.jpg\" alt=\"IMAX Movie Theater\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMAX-CInema.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/IMAX-CInema-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, Robert Kerr<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>1968<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr going to the movies is such an amazing experience. The three filmmakers are the masterminds behind <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMAX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IMAX<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u00a0the most widely used system for special-venue film presentations. They developed a revolutionary projector that displayed movies ten times larger while still retaining high picture quality. As of Sept. 30, 2017, there were 1,302 IMAX theatre systems (1,203 commercial multiplexes, 13 commercial destinations, 86 institutional) operating in 75 countries, according to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/imax-and-cineplex-launch-canada-s-first-imax-vr-centre-at-scotiabank-theatre-toronto-1008432655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BusinessInsider<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>5) The Canadarm<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canadarm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canadarm.jpg\" alt=\"Canadarm mounted on a Space Shuttle\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canadarm.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Canadarm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>George Klein<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>1981<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canadarm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Canadarm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a robotic arm also known as the SRMS (Shuttle Remote Manipulator System)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was developed by George Klein. The 15-meter robotic arm was used <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">n NASA Space Missions. Over a span of 30 years, the Canadarm was involved in 91 shuttle mission<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, helping to repair satellites and maintain NASA\u2019s precious equipment and cargo.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>6) The Walkie-Talkie<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Walkie-Talkie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Walkie-Talkie.jpg\" alt=\"The Walkie-Talkie\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Walkie-Talkie.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.investintech.com\/resources\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Walkie-Talkie-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Donald L. Hings<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>1942<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walkie-talkie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walkie-Talkie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (initially called \u201cpackset\u201d) is a portable two-way radio transceiver developed during the World War II. Canadian Inventor Donald Hings is one of several people that take credit for its development. Originally walkie-talkies were used for military communication during the war, however, after the war ended, they were used in areas like public safety, job sites or even for recreational purposes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s your pick for the best tech invention that was developed by a Canadian? Do you think we missed any other great ones that should\u2019ve made our list? Leave us your thoughts in the comments below! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big weekend is ahead of us. Yes, July 1st is just a few days away. And if you\u2019re a Canadian, you already know what we\u2019re referring to. If not, let us explain why this milestone is so important to us. July 1st is the National day of Canada a.k.a. Canada Day. 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