List of Canadian inventors and discoverers
The list of Canadian inventors and explorers is a list of inventors and explorers of Canada in alphabetical order of the family name.
A.
- Thomas Ahearn : inventor and businessman
B.
- Frederick Banting : Co-inventor of insulin (together with James Collip and Charles Best )
- Anthony R. Barringer : INPUT (Induced Pulse Transient, electromagnetic mineral exploration)
- Charles Barnes : rotary vane pump
- C. Donald Bateman : Ground Proximity Warning System
- Charles Best : Co-inventor of insulin (together with James Collip and Frederick Banting )
- Norman James Breakey : Paint Roller
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier : Snowmobile
- Willard Boyle : Charge-coupled devices (Nobel Prize together with George E. Smith )
- Bertram Brockhouse : Nobel Prize "for her development of techniques for scattering the uncharged nuclear particles"
- Michael Brook : Infinite Guitar
- Gerald Bull : Project Babylon , work on artillery pieces
C.
- James Collip : Co-inventor of insulin (together with Frederick Banting and Charles Best )
- Frederick George Creed : Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull
D.
- Herbert Henry Dow (Canada / USA): Process for the production of bromine
- Theodore Drake : co-inventor of the Pablum
E.
- Marcellus Gilmore Edson : Patent for Peanut Paste , 1884
F.
- Charles Fenerty : Papermaking Process
- Reginald Fessenden : 1906, radio pioneer
- Sandford Fleming : Sponsor of the World Time
- Robert Foulis : Nebelhorn
- Wilbur R. Franks : Anti-g suit
G
- Abraham Gesner : Kerosene
- James Gosling : Java programming language
- Alfred Gross : pager ; Walkie-Talkie (together with Donald Hings )
H
- Donald Hings : Walkie-Talkie (together with Alfred Gross )
- John Alexander Hopps : pioneer of the invention of the pacemaker
- Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman :
K
- George Klein : electric wheelchair
- Roman Kroitor : Co-inventor of IMAX
L.
- Mike Lazaridis : Co-inventor of the Blackberry
M.
- Elijah McCoy : automatic lubrication device for the steam engine of the locomotives,
- Cluny MacPherson : gas mask (controversial, also the American Garrett Morgan )
- Warren Alvin Marrison : quartz watch 1929
N
- James Naismith : Basketball , 1891
- Peter Norman Nissen : Nissen Hut
P
- Jacques Plante : goalkeeper mask
- John C. Polanyi : (Nobel Prize) - Contribution to the dynamics of elementary chemical processes
R.
- McIntosh Red :
- PL Robertson : Robertson screw
S.
- Charles E. Saunders :
- Arthur Sicard : Snowblower
- Michael Smith (Canada / United Kingdom) - for his development of a method to change ( mutagenesis ) the deoxyribonucleic acid on which the genetic information is stored
- Ralph M. Steinman : Nobel Prize - for the discovery of dendritic cells and their role in adaptive immunity
T
- Richard E. Taylor : Nobel Prize - for experiments to prove quarks, elementary particles with a third-digit charge
- Brent Townshend : 56k modem
U
W.
- Harry Wasylyk : garbage bag from polyethylene
- CS Wright : polar explorer