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Canada Dry Ginger Ale – a dry ginger ale invented by John J. McLaughlin in 1904 under the name of "Pale Ginger Ale", before it was patented in 1907 under "Canada Dry Ginger Ale". [ 3 ] Canola Oil – developed from natural rapeseed (a plant from the turnip family) by National Research Council Canada (NRCC) personnel in the 1970s, containing a ...
Pages in category "Canadian inventions" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. [2] [3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.
Pyrimethamine, sold under the trade name Daraprim, is an anti-parasitic medication used to treat a variety of conditions including toxoplasmosis and isosporiasis. Pyrimethamine was initially developed by Nobel Prize winning scientist Gertrude Elion as a treatment for malaria. [9] [10] Vitamin E
The Greatest Canadian experienced strong initial ratings, some fall-off during its run, and a partial rebound for the finale. The series was credited with bringing the CBC public "buzz" and a younger demographic. Conversely the series was critiqued, by University of Calgary communication professors Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan in their book ...
TIME Magazine has released its list of "50 Worst Inventions" and somehow FarmVille has made the list of one of the fifty! The list of fifty worst inventions is compiled of "the world's bright ...
Image credits: Vintage Everyday When we say "the best thing since sliced bread," we're going back to July 6, 1928. It was on that day that the very first automatically sliced commercial loaves of ...
EVD-1 was the first portable bomb detection instrument in Canada, [10] one of the 100 notable innovations from National Research Council Canada, [11] and one of 50 Greatest Canadian Inventions. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] EVD-1 was capable of detecting minute amounts of dynamite, other explosives, and 2,3-Dimethyl-2,3-dinitrobutane (DMNB, a taggant or marker ...