10 Canadian Inventors to Recognize

Did you know Canadian inventors have patented more than one million inventions? Canadian’s have contributed everything from AC radio tubes to zippers. Here are just 10 of those inventors and what they have contributed.

10 Canadian Inventors

1. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, among other devices, in 1876
2. James Naismith created the game of basketball in 1891
3. Joseph Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile in 1922
4. Gideon Sundback created the zipper in 1917
5. Sanford Fleming developed a global system for setting time, including time zones
6. Lewis Urry invented both the alkaline and lithium batteries while working for Eveready
7. George Klein invented the electric wheel chair for the veterans from the Second World War
8. Donald Lewis Hings invented the Walkie Talkie, a portable radio signaling system in 1937
9. Peter Robertson invented the Robertson screw driver and the square head screw in 1908
10. Susan Olivia Poole created the Jolly Jumper for babies