Canada and Technology (major inventions, advancements created by Canadians)

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    Canada's Growing Identity

  • Apple Computers

    Created the video music player called the Ipod under Project Codename Dulcimer.
  • Aerogel

    The lightest solid ever created in the world. It weighs .00011 lbs. per cu. in. (air weighs .00004 lbs. per cu. in.) This was created by NASA in the 1930s but then refined now to be better
  • Virtual Keyboard

    The virtual keyboard will be created. It uses a laser beam that will be shot onto a flat surface and the sensor will determine what keys you are pressing.
  • MARS Rovers

    NASA will be sending two solar powered vehicles up to Mars and usinf it's 9 cameras and 3 spectometers, they will first try to look for traces of water.
  • Tesla Roadster 100

    A car that is missing a gas tank but can go 130 MPH. From 0 to 60 MPH in 4 seconds and can travel 250 miles before the batteries need to be recharged
  • UBC

    A group of Engineering students from University of British Columbia created an 80-lb, carbon-fiber Mark V that can travel
  • blended wing body

    An airplane that has it's body blended into it's wings. The X-48B is destined for transport, bombing and intelligence. It is for military uses only.
  • Tesla

    Tesla created another one called the Tesla Roadster. It is a battery-powered sports car that sells for $100,000 and has a top speed of 125 m.p.h
  • MARS ROVER

    The new MARS ROVER is 9 ft. (2.7 m) long, runs on a chunk of plutonium and carries 176 lb. (80 kg) of scientific instruments, including a neutron gun — for firing at the ground to detect permafrost.