Report on Joseph-Armand Bombardier-By Thomas Farley Early Life: Joseph-Armand Bombardier was born on April 16, 1907 in the town of Valcourt in Quebec, Canada. Even as a young child Bombardier had a lot of interest in mechanical objects and how mechanisms work. At the age of 13, Bombardier had manufactured one of his first mechanical creation, a miniature locomotive that ran by a clock mechanism. This was one of his first creations and the first step towards what was to come. He then started to create more mechanical toys such as tractors and boats using money he earned from serving at his local parish. From this point on Bombardier went on to building steam engines, dismantling and repairing mechanisms, and even building a cannon out of a …show more content…
This was a crucial moment in Bombardier’s life as the death of his son led to a large increase in effort and the eventual invention of the wheel/track system for his snow machines. 1935 marks the year where Bombardier creates his first major invention, the sprocket wheel/track system. He then files for a patent in 1936 and in 1937 he successfully has his invention patented. After the patenting of his new invention, Bombardier went on to create another large milestone in his inventive career, the B7 snowmobile. Named after himself (the B standing for Bombardier), and given the 7 to represent the amount of passengers, his first production of snowmobiles becomes a large hit. There was, however, a few problems with ice buildup and blockage, but being the innovative person that he was, he immediately began looking at ways to fix the problems. Even though the snowmobile may have been the biggest and most influential moment of Bombardier’s life, that did not stop him from coming up with new a bigger ideas. Another huge and important part of Bombardier’s life was in 1942 when Joseph-Armand Bombardier founded “L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitee”, which is now called Bombardier Inc. Joseph-Armand was undoubtedly a genius and one of the greatest Canadian inventors to have ever been born. He has invented snowmobiles, tractors, small toys, and founded one of Canada's most culturally rich companies who create snowmobiles, trains, planes, and much
An aggressive pilot, due to his daring nature, a young Canadian became a legend and inspired a new generation of aces. Billy Bishop was a courageous man and the greatest fighter pilot to serve Canada during the times of war. The purpose of this essay is to learn and recognize the different contributions made by Billy Bishop and his journey to rising above his peers through strength and courage. This is true because he would go on to won 16 medals and become the first Canadian to win the Victoria Cross. First the difficult path he faced to achieving his dream will be discussed. Secondly his amazing victories and contributions during the war will be discussed. Lastly the ordeal he faced by people who believe he lied about his fights and the controversies of whether he deserved the Victoria Cross will be discussed.
Fulton went to a strict Quaker school and got in trouble often. A classmate of his gave him a paint shells because of how good of a painter he was. Fulton began to make signs for the local tradesman this began his interest in painting and designs. Fulton was always creative even since he was a kid. On April in 1775, he submitted designs to the gunsmiths shop and ended up designing the air gun. Fulton’s family was poor.
Canada’s Technological inventions such as Pacemakers and Java (computer language) popularized and recognized Canadian identity and potential on world stage. On the other hand, the expansion of Blackberry lifted the economic situation of Canada providing jobs to thousands of people in Canada. Twentieth Century brought lot of recognition to Canada from war to the technological inventions that popularized Canadian identity and potential. Technology is an innovation but technology has been innovated the Canadian identity and recognized its potential on world stage since the start of the century.
Born in August 4, 1921, Maurice Richard was the eldest of eight children of Onesime and Alice Richard. Maurice’s parents moved from Gaspe region to Nouveau-Bordeaux so that his father could work as a machinist at the Canadian Pacific Railway. He started playing hockey when he was a young kid and he was good in boxing as well. In 1937, a young Maurice Richard at age16, was dropped out of school and worked with his father as a machinist and that was his only income other than some income in the winter with the senior Canadiens.
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent their lives building and working with mechanical devices. They began with little toys as children and then grew up and began working with bicycles. These works lead them towards their work with airplanes. The Wright Brothers tried for many years to build a successful flying machine and succeeded. The Wright Brothers laid the foundation for aviation when they made history by being the first to create a successful flying machine.
Canada filled and changed the world with new technologies and new with its early inventions in 1914 to 1935. Firstly, Guglielmo Marconi invented the first radio. When he improved this invention, it changed the lives of many people in Canada and the world. (Newman, 177) People would use the radio when doing house work, to be more relaxed or to simply waste time. This is significant because Canadians thought it was very impressive. Soon the world started using it and it shows that Canada is advancing above every other country in the 20th century. Secondly, in October 1920, Dr. Frederick G. had a great idea to produce insulin to treat diabetes, and when he succeeded, he improved the living of Canadians through science and technology. When the insulin was first used in a fourteen-year old boy who obtained diabetes, the insulin worked to help his disease. When it worked, hundreds of diabetes came to Toronto to be treated after hearin...
With the good times of the 1920's, came the most astouding number of consumer inventions Canada had ever seen. From 1923 to 1929, many Canadians had full-time jobs and regular paychecks. And with the growing amount of media advertising, Canadians were swepted away with the amount of flyers and catalouges filled with new products to buy and enjoy. Though some were invented by Canadians, most came from America. Inventions such as; the Refridgerator, Air Conditioner, Washing Machine and the pop-up toaster, were in thousands of Canadian homes by 1929. As stated by Bill Bryson, “[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.” Americans invented so many things during the Booming 20's, that Canadians wee overwhelmed, but one invention revolutionized Canada forever, the automobile. The automobile was huge success in Canada, not only commerically, but its commerical mass production on assembly lines generated hundreds of jobs with good living salaries. By 1929, a large amount of Canadians families owned an automobile and close to 600 000 kilometres of roads were paved within Canada. The American...
Around the same time in Germany, Baron Karl von Drais de Savebrun developed a similar machine, with the difference that his had handle-bars...
I hope I have answered the question “What was his personal life like?” good in here and would like to summarize by saying that he was able to overcome all odds to become a famous inventor that even had a movie made by him. I would also like to say that He made many, many products that we still use all from simple plants like peanuts in summary to the answer of the question “What did he actually do?”. He also had many hobbies that ended up in helping many people (“What did he like to do when he wasn’t working?”). I have found that this man that I knew nothing about before the report is one of the few real life people I know of that overcame so many things in his life that almost no one even knows
Norbert Rillieux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 17, 1806. His mother, Constance Vivant was a freed slave from New Orleans, and his father, Vincent Rillieux, was a inventor and engineer. Vincent invented the steam-operated cotton baling press. Norbert's academic talents were seen at an early age by his father, and was sent to Paris to be educated.
Air Canada was born as Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) on Gregorian calendar month ten, 1937. From initial takeoff to gift date, its history has been packed with high moments.
Jan Ernst Matzeliger was born on September 15, 1852, in Paramaribo, Suriname—known at the time as Dutch Guiana. Matzeliger's father was a Dutch engineer, and his mother was Surinamese. Showing mechanical aptitude at a young age, Matzeliger began working in machine shops supervised by his father at the age of 10. At 19, he left Suriname to see the world as a sailor on an East Indian merchant ship. In 1873, he settled in Philadelphia (www.biography.com). After settling in the U.S. spoke very little English; and for several years he worked on learning the English language. Matzeliger had many mechanical abilities, however, as a black man in the 1870s his professional opportunities were limited. In 1877 Matzeliger moved to Massachusetts where he found ...
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was born on March 18, 1858 in Paris, France. He was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine. He is the second of three children of Elise(born Strobel) and Theodore Diesel. His parents were Bavarian immigrants living in Paris. Theodor Diesel, a bookbinder by trade, left his home town of Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1848. He met his, daughter of a Nuremberg merchant, in Paris in 1855 and became a leather goods manufacturer there. Rudolf spent his early childhood in France, but as a result of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, his family(as were many other Germans) was forced to leave. They settled in London, France. Before the war’s end, however, Diesel’s mother sent 12-year-old Rudolf to Augsburg to live with his aunt and uncle, Barbara and Christoph Barnickel, to become fluent in German and to visit the Royal County Trade School, where his uncle taught mathematics. At age 14, Rudolf wrote a letter to his parents stating that he wanted to become an engineer. After finishing his basic education at the top of his class in 1873, he enrolled at the newly founded Industrial School of Augsburg. Two years later, he received a merit scholarship form Royal Bavarian Polytechnic of Munich, which he accepted against the wishes of his parents, who would rather have seen him start to work.
Theodore Alfred Peterman was the founder of Peterbilt Motors Company in 1937. Theodore had a problem. He couldn’t get logs from the forest to the lumber mill quickly or efficiently. The first truck Peterman and his employees helped rebuild was an old army truck. The army truck helped solve his problem. He figured out that if he placed the battery on the starter instead of the crank, it would work. Peterman did not live to long after starting his business and selling his invention for six years. His wife Ida Peterman sold the business to seven individuals within the Peterbilt organization a year after Theodore died. He did in 1945. When it was sold to those seven individuals, it was expanded into a serious producer of heavy duty trucks. The shareholders eventually sold it to PACCAR (Pacific Car & Foundry Co.) They had already acquired the assets of Kenworth in 1945 and was planning on becoming a player in the heavy truck market. Pacific Car made Peterbilt Motors a wholly owned subsidiary. Peterbilt finally carried its own tradition while retaining its ...
On March 23, 1912, Baron Magnus von Braun and Baroness Emmy von Quistorp celebrated the birth of their second son, Wernher von Braun. During Wernher’s early life, he composed a few pieces of music and recycled old automobile parts to build a new car. Regrettably, because he spent so much time on this car, Wernher flunked mathematics and physics.