Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

This is the list the CBC gives you to choose from when you vote. All in all I think it is a pretty remarkable list of inventions and I suspect most non-Canadians would think mostly invented by Americans.

1. Alkaline long lasting battery
2. Ardox spiral nail
3. Automatic lubricating cap
4. Basketball
5. Birch bark canoe
6. Blackberry
7. Bloody Caesar
8. Canadarm
9. Caulking gun
10. Cobalt 60 “Bomb” cancer treatment
11. CPR- Mannequin “Actar 911″
12. Crash Position indicator CP-1
13. Electric oven
14. Electric wheelchair
15. Electron Microscope
16. Electronic music synthesizer
17. Explosives vapour detector
18. Five pin bowling
19. Fog horn
20. Goalie mask (hockey)
21. Green plastic garbage bag
22. G-suit
23. Instant mashed potatoes (oh the shame)
24. Instant Replay
25. Insulin treatmennt for diabetes
26. Java programming language
27. Key frame animation
28. Lacrosse
29. Electric light bulb
30. Marine screw propeller
31. Marquis wheat
32. Pablum
33. Pacemaker (medical)
34. Paint roller
35. Plexiglass
36. Poutine
37. Radio voice transmission
38. Retractable beer carton handle (can anyone seriously doubt the value of this?)
39. Robertson screw
40. Self-propelled combine harvester
41. Seperable baggage check
42. Ski-do
43. Snowblower
44. Standard time
45. Telephone
46. UV degradable plastics
47. Walkie-talkie
48. Weevac 6
49. Wonderbra
50. Zipper

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