CANADIAN TECHNOLOGY HISTORY
by Faisal Bagalagel
1. Durant Motors
2. Chrysler of Canada
3. Gray-Dort motors
4. Automobiles
4.1. The Canadian auto mobile industries were booming in the 1920's. Canada was the world's second-largest producer of cars, after the United States at that time. There were many types of cars made by many types of companies.
5. Airplanes
5.1. The first ever airplane flight in Canada happened in 1909. The AEA Silver Dart was flown in Baddek Nova Scotia. Later on, airplanes were used in warfare in both world wars and used as transportation of goods and passengers.
6. Airliner
6.1. An airliner is a type of aircraft for transporting passengers and air cargo. Such aircraft are most often operated by airlines.
7. Military aircraft
7.1. Any plane that is made to be used for army use is a military aircraft. There are two types of military aircraft, combat or non-combat.
8. Combat
8.1. Combat aircraft's are made to fight other enemy combat aircraft's and destroy enemy equipment.
9. Noncombat
9.1. Non-Combat aircraft are mainly used to transport military equipment and supplies
10. Companies
11. Types of automobiles
11.1. Automobiles can be classified in many ways such as what their purpose is, the type of fuel they use, and their capacity.
12. Purpose
12.1. There are many different purposes for the vast amount of automobiles that exist today, but the two main ones are transporting people and transporting goods.
13. Capacity
13.1. According to the capacity the vehicles are classified as light motor automobiles and heavy motor automobiles.
14. Fuel type
14.1. There are three main fuel types for automobiles: Petroleum, Diesel, and alternative fuel automobiles
15. Passenger automobile
15.1. These types of automobiles transport passengers. Automobiles of this type would be cars, buses, vans, etc.
16. goods automobile
16.1. These types of automobiles transport materials, cargo, food, and any other goods. They are mainly trucks.
17. light motor automobiles
17.1. These types of automobiles are light and can only carry light loads. Examples of these types of automobiles would be: Motorcycle, Car, Scooter.
18. heavy motor automobiles
18.1. These types of automobiles are very heavy and can carry very heavy materials
19. Petroleum
19.1. This type of fuel is the most common, Cars, Motorcycles, and Jeeps use this fuel.
20. Diesel
20.1. This type of fuel is usually used by bigger automobiles like Trucks, Buses, and Tractors.
21. Alternative fuel
21.1. Alternative fuel refers to any fuel other than Diesel and Petroleum. Types of automobiles that would use this type of fuel would be electric cars and hybrid automobiles.
22. Entertainment
23. War machines
24. Radio
24.1. Canadian inventor, Reginald Fessenden, transmitted human voices from Brant Rock near Boston, Massachusetts to several ships at sea owned by the United Fruit Company in 1906.
25. TV
25.1. The first TV stations in Canada were made in Montreal and Quebec in 1952. Canada is greatly influenced by the US culture and most of the shows we watch are American.
26. Tanks
26.1. tanks were invented and used in WW1 and then used later on in WW2. Canada was involved in both of these wars and used tanks as a front line defense and offense.
27. Atomic Bomb
27.1. The atomic bomb was invented in 1945 during WW2 by American scientists. Canada held possession of atomic bombs in the cold war to be protected from attacks form the North from Russia.
28. Machine Guns
28.1. Machine guns were invented in the US in the 1800's and were used in WW1 by Candadians
29. Colt Machine guns
29.1. Canadians first went overseas with four Colt machine-guns in each infantry battalion in WW1.
30. Vickers
30.1. Canadians first used this type of machine gun in 1916 in WW1. It was much more dependable then the colt machine gun.
31. Mk Valentine VI
31.1. This tank was also used in WW2 and manufactured in Canada. it proved to be both strong and reliable.
32. Grizzly 1
32.1. This was a M4A1 Sherman tank used in WW2 and was manufactured in Canada. It had special Canadian Dry Pin (CDP) tracks, which did not require rubber, a scarce wartime material.
