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First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal
Guglielmo Marconi and his assistant, George Kemp, confirmed the reception of the first transatlantic radio signals. With a telephone receiver and a wire antenna kept aloft by a kite, they heard Morse code for the letter "S" transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall. -
First Silent Movie: The Great Train Robbery
Produced by Thomas Edison but directed and filmed by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter, the 12-minute-long silent film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), was the first narrative movie, one that told a story. -
Ford Introduces the Model-T
The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. The first production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908. This affected the canadian transportation majorly -
Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp
His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. Charlie Chaplin became a very famous actor in the comedy section and was a canadian -
First Commercial Radio Broadcast Aired
Frank Conrad was assistant chief engineer of the Westinghouse Electric Company in Pittsburgh and was the first dj to play music on the radio. -
bombardiers first snowmobile
Mechnic Joseph-Armand Bombardier built the first Snowmobile. this was the start of snowmachines and a new way of transportation in canada -
First Talking Movie
At first, the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue—known as "talking pictures", or "talkies"—were exclusively shorts; the earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927 -
Anti-gravity Suit Invented
Wilbur Franks and colleagues at the University of Toronto invented the anti-gravity suit, the world's first pressurized suit, which allowed pilots to carry out high-speed manoeuvres without losing consciousness. -
Canada's First TV Station
Canada's first television station, CBFT in Montréal, began transmitting. English-language CBLT in Toronto began operations September 8. -
New Microwave System
Canada's new microwave relay system went into operation from coast to coas -
SIN's issued
Social Insurance Number cards began to be issued by the government to assist record-keeping and administration. -
Credit Card Introduced
The Royal Bank, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Banque Canadienne Nationale introduced the Chargex (Visa) credit card to Canada. -
Cell phones are invented.
The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when researchers looked at crude mobile (car) phones and realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones substantially. over the years the radio signal got bigger and stronger and now the communication is world wide and a huge impact in canada. -
The Apple Lisa invented.
The Lisa was the first personal computer to use a GUI. Other innovative features for the personal market included a drop-down menu bar, windows, multiple tasking, a hierarchal file system, the ability to copy and paste, icons, folders and a mouse. It cost Apple $50 million to develop the Lisa and $100 million to write the software, and only 10,000 units were ever sold -
High-definition television invented.
From this moment on, every company have been competeting to have the most high def- televison -
The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991 -
Viagra invented.
ccording to the British Press (but not exactly according to Pfizer or others involved), Peter Dunn and Albert Wood both of Kent, England are named as the inventors of the process by which Viagra was created. Their names appeared on an application by Pfizer to patent (WOWO9849166A1) the manufacturing process of Viagra or Sildenafil Citrate.
