April 16th 1907, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, a Canadian inventor and entrepreneur was born. Bombardier grew up in the eastern Quebec village of Valcourt. The ambitious young bombardier wanted to come up with a solution to make it much easier to travel through the snow-covered roads. Through Bombardier’s earlier years, he started his own garage where he worked and honed his mechanical craft. In his spare time, Bombardier worked hard to create an automobile that could travel easily on snow. Over a 10 year period, Bombardier came up with several prototypes but it wasn’t till 1936, that Bombardier finally had the final prototype he was happy with. In the same year he submitted a patent application for his B7, a seven-passenger snowmobile with revolutionary …show more content…
Eventually Bombardier was able to start up his own factory with a production capacity of 200. In the 1940s, resources and materials were limited because of the war. Although many companies success was limited within these years, Bombardier was able to turn it around and use it to his companies’ benefit. The government ordered more than a hundred B1s, a modified version of the newer B12 model. The B12 was mainly used for cargo and mail transport, often used by mailmen and also commonly used by ambulance and rescue services. Eventually, over a span of several years in the 1940s, L'Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée, or Bombardier Snowmobile Limited was able to produce 1900 tracked vehicles for the armed forces. While producing vehicles for the armed forces, leading to many new innovations and modifications that bettered Bombardier’s products. One example was the armored Mark I. Unfortunately Bombardier Snowmobile Limited was unable to reap all of the profits that were 5 made from the business, especially for the royalties for any use of his patents in the military vehicles. The massive demand for Bombardier’s vehicles allowed him to gain much manufacturing and design skills that helped him greatly in the later …show more content…
Unfortunately, in the early 1950s sales began to drop due to the changing society. For example, the Quebec government introduced snow removal programs across the province to make it easier for regular cars to travel. This caused to be a major problem to Bombardier and his company. Although this proved to be a major problem for the company, it only pushed Bombardier to adapt and improve his company by diversifying into different sectors. Bombardier created much more than just the snowmobile; he had over 30 different patents over his lifespan. Bombardier relied on his inventiveness to come up with new products that would push Bombardier Snowmobile Ltd. even further. Among these new innovative products, the two most successful was the Muskeg, and the J5. The revolutionary new Muskeg was a tractor-type machine that could perform multiple different functions in difficult terrain. The J5 was the first tracked vehicle that Bombardier specifically designed for logging. By the end of the 1950s, profits of Bombardier were soaring, eventually reaching the $1 million
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The Avro Arrow was Canada’s broken dream and it could have been one of Canada’s greatest aeronautical achievements. The cancelation of the Avro Arrow was a huge mistake that set Canada’s aviation industry back, which resulted in a Brain Drain to USA and was an act of Canada bowing to USA pressure. The Avro Arrow, an advanced, supersonic, twin-engine, all-weather interceptor jet aircraft developed by A.V. Roe of Canada in 1949, could have been many things. It might have become the fastest plane in the world, our best defense against Soviet bombers, the catalyst to propel Canada to the forefront of the aviation industry. Instead, it became a $400-million pile of scrap metal, and the stuff of legends. If A.V. Roe Ltd. remained and the Arrow flew today, Canada’s aircraft industry would be a very different thing indeed.
Canadian history consists of many memorable moments, including many great leaders that helped Canada become what it is today, like the well-known Louis St. Laurent. He was born on Feb. 1st, 1882 in Compton, Quebec, and died on July 25, 1973 in Quebec City (Coucil, 13). Louis St. Laurent was raised in a mixed family, with a French - speaking father, and English - speaking Irish mother, and was fluently bilingual. He studied many years in law, where he graduated from law school, at Laval University in 1914, and had been a successful corporation lawyer (“St-Stephen, St. Laurent”). Laurent entered politics a lot later in his years, as he became older; however he still managed to have a large impact on Canada, and achieved many accomplishments. Louis St. Laurent was an extremely important, and well-respected politician, because he helped resolve the conscription crisis from 1940-1944 (,Pickersgill,14), and prevented the government and cabinet from collapsing, which would have caused the society to fall apart at the time, he was involved in the establishment of the Canada Council, which introduced support for Canadian arts, to help Canada separate from the influence of American culture (Jocelyn), and lastly he welcomed Newfoundland into confederation in 1949 (“Newfoundland History”), which was a large accomplishment because of the failures Many other politicians experienced in trying to do so before.
Firstly, by building the world’s first transcontinental railway, Sir John A. Macdonald contributed to the economy and efficiency of Canada. One of the major arguments of British C...
In Canadian history there are many famous people. In my mind one really stands out among the rest. His name is Terry Fox and he is one of the greatest athlete to run on the face of this planet. Terry discovered he had cancer and then decided to run across Canada. He was a brave man who would take what the world through at him. Running across Canada was his way to show the world that he was not going out with out a fight.
Boeing is a very interesting company. Boeing may only be one company but they compete in two different markets: commercial airlines and the defense industry. The main competition in the commercial airline market is Airbus. Airbus and Boeing seem to have the commercial airline industry in a chokehold basically having no other competitors. Since the industry has high barriers to entry they will not see much competition anytime soon. Boeing is the American leader in commercial airplanes and Airbus is the European leader, which means they are constantly battling. Their competing aircrafts are the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747. Both companies have many variations of their respected aircraft and according to Business Insider, Airbus’ A380 outranks
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.
Adolphus did not only deal in the brewing of beer. One example of this is the diesel engine. In 1898, he bought the patents for the diesel engine for 1,000,000 gold marks (then about $200,000). Busch formed the Diesel Motor Company of America, which was later changed to the American Diesel Engine Company. This company produced the first commercially successful diesel engine in the world.
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...
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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...
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.
grew up to create an automobile Tucker that was years ahead of its time. He was
The first written case is about one of the largest aerospace firm called Boeing. Boeing the largest firm provided services for the military and its industry buyers all around the world. This company made many goods like the jets, helicopter and other things that are necessary for the military industry. (page 111). Boeing was a very successful company that’s net income was worth 1.5 billion dollars and had about 153,000 people working under this corporation, which was the worlds largest company. The big issue came about with this company was caught doing something wrong more than twice.