The Greatest Canadian Invention is a television mini-series originally aired on CBC Television. It involved people voting on which invention (out of 50) they considered the greatest Canadian invention. It is a spiritual sequel to The Greatest Canadian. A miniseries, in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... CBC Television is the primary English language television service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... A spiritual sequel or spiritual successor is a sequel or successor to a computer or video game, movie, comic or even a stage play. ... Officially launched on April 5, 2004, The Greatest Canadian was a project by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, to find out who is considered the greatest Canadian of all time. ...

Inventions

2 Duracell-Brand AAA Alkaline batteries Alkaline batteries are a type of power cell dependent upon the reaction between zinc and manganese dioxide (Zn/MnO2). ... A pile of nails Nails A twisted nail This article is about nails as used in engineering. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... A canoe is a relatively small boat, typically human-powered, but also commonly sailed. ... Species Rubus fruticosus - Common Blackberry and hundreds more microspecies (the subgenus also includes the dewberries) The blackberry is a widespread and well known shrub; commonly called a bramble in the eastern U.S. and Europe but a a soft-bodied fruit popular for use in desserts, jams, seedless jellies and... A Caesar, sometimes referred to as a Bloody Caesar after the similar Bloody Mary, is a cocktail popular mainly in Canada. ... The Remote Manipulator System (RMS) on the Space Shuttle, also known as the Canadarm, is an electromechanical arm that maneuvers a payload from the payload bay of the space shuttle orbiter to its deployment position and then releases it. ... Caulking - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Clinac 2100 C accelerator Radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis). ... Oven depicted in a painting by Millet An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. ... The international symbol of access depicts a person in a wheelchair A wheelchair is mobility device that takes the form of a chair on wheels, used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness or disability. ... It has been suggested that Selected area diffraction be merged into this article or section. ... A synthesizer (spelling var. ... Explosives trace detectors (ETD) are security equipment able to detect explosives of small magnitude. ... Bowling ball and two pins Ten-pin bowling lane Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by rolling a ball along a flat surface to knock down objects called pins. ... This page is about the navigational aid called foghorn, for the Ray Bradbury scence fiction novel, see The fog horn A navigation aid for mariners. ... A goalie mask is a mask worn by an ice or field hockey goalie to protect the head from injury. ... Lamb chops with mashed potatoes This article is about the food. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The structure of insulin. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... In animation, a key frame is a frame in an animated sequence of frames that was drawn or otherwise constructed directly by the user. ... For other uses, see Lacrosse (disambiguation). ... The light bulb is one of the most significant inventions in the history of the human race, illuminating the darkness of the evening and bringing light indoors at all times in order focus on the task at hand. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Species T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Pablum was a cereal for infants marketed by Mead Johnson Corporation. ... The term pacemaker has multiple meanings: In sports, a pacemaker or pacer is a competitor who enters an athletics race with little or no intention of winning, but purely to set a fast pace for other competitors to follow. ... Structure of PMMA: (C5O2H8)n Structure of methyl methacrylate Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) or polymethyl-2-methylpropanoate is the synthetic polymer of methyl methacrylate. ... Poutine (pronounced, roughly, poo-tsin; exact Quebecer pronunciation is IPA — listen to it in . ... For other uses, see Radio (disambiguation). ... Look up handle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A postage stamp of a combine honors Russian agriculture. ... An aerial view of a large international airport. ... Bombardier Inc. ... A snow blower, snowblower, or snow thrower is a machine for removing snow from an area where it is not wanted, such as a driveway, sidewalk, roadway, or runway. ... Universal Time (UT) is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth. ... An old rotary telephone This article is about telephone technology. ... Plastic covers a range of synthetic or semisynthetic polymerization products. ... A walkie-talkie is a portable, bi-directional radio transceiver, first developed for military use. ... The Wonderbra is a push-up brassiere (bra) sold by the Playtex Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sara Lee Corporation, holder of the various trademarks. ... Closeup of the zipper on a pair of jeans This article is about the fastening device called zipper zip, zipper, or the acronym ZIP, see zip (disambiguation). ...

External Link

• The Greatest Canadian Invention Homepage