Interesting Canadian Inventions:

All inventions/discoveries on this list can be verified by the CIPO/OPIC (Canadian Intellectual Property Office). To browse a HUGE list of Canadian inventions by inventor, province, or category, visit the site.

• AM radio
• IMAX projector and system
• panoramic pictures and camera
• telephone
• transceiver (walkie-talkie)
• world's first commercial motion picture
• butter substitute
• electric cooking range
• instant potato flakes
• Pablum
• hair tonic
• paint roller
• portable high chair
• washing machine
• zipper
• degradable plastic
• kerosene
• oil well
• pulp newsprint
• sewage recycling system
• Actar 911 CPR Dummy
• dental mirror
• electron microscope
• insulin
• electric hand prosthesis for children
• myoelectric prosthesis
• ear piercer
• Abdomenizer
• Balderdash
• basketball
• 5-pin bowling
• hockey goalie mask
• rollerskate
• Trivial Pursuit
• air-conditioned vehicle
• Canadarm
• electric car
• guardrail
• snowblower
• snowmobile
• lacrosse
• ice brewed beer
• hockey
• back bacon
• Superman (Joe Shuster, one of the creators, was born in Toronto)
• Beano
• baseball (they played it first)
• basketball (the man who created it was a Canadian who moved to the U.S.)
• the wonderbra
• V-chip
• cable TV
• Geiger Counter
• engineered yarn
• beer cases with tuck-in handles
• flight simulators for pilot training