Canadian Inventions

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Birch Bark Canoe: First Peoples of Canada

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Birch Bark Canoe
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Basketball: James Naismith, 1892

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Basketball
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Eye of the Tiger

Basketball
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Blackberry: Mike Lasaridis, 1999

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 iTouch - 8900 - Nexus One (side by side)
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Canadarm: SPAR Aerospace/NRC, 1975

Canadarm
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Electric Oven: Thomas Ahearn, 1892

New Stove
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General Electric
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Goalie Mask: Jacques Plante, 1959

Itech 961 Goalie Mask Painted by John Grider
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Butterflies

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Painted Lady

Mrs. C. Boyd

Painted Lady

Mrs. C. Boyd

Painted Lady

Mrs. C. Boyd

Painted Lady

Mrs. C. Boyd

Monarch Butterfly on Hydrangea PaniculataMonach
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ButterflyMonarch
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ButterfliesMonarch
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Hatching monarch butterflyHatching Monarch
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Electric Car

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Aptera electric car
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Plug this car into 110v electricity for 6 hours for a full charge
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2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
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Power Station in London, England

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electric car charger
Power station in London, England

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Trunk
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Insects

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Ants
Ants

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Panesthia australis (Australian Wood Cockroach)
Australian Wood Cockroach

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Dragonfly
Dragonfly

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Fly on flower
Fly

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Praying Mantis

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praying mantis
Praying Mantis

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Grasshopper
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A Robberfly strangled an Ant
Robberfly

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Lamprima latreillii (Golden Green Stag Beetle)
Golden Green Stag Beetle

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juvenile tettigonidae (katydid)
Katydid

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Chinche (Stink bug)
Stink Bug

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Ladybug Swarm
Ladybug Swarm

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Termites
Termites

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Dung Beetle

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The loving couple
Dung Beetles

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American cockroach - תיקן אמריקני
American Cockroach

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Bees

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Bee in a San Pedro Cactus bloom by ThreadedThoughts
Bee

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Biomass Energy

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Terre Haute Sisters Look to Biomass
The wood chipper breaks down the biomass materials for the burner.
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The UMM Biomass Gasification Facility
University of Minnesota Biomass Gasification Facility

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Biomass producing energy
Biomass burner: this site in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota uses yard and lumber waste to create energy.

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Geothermal Energy

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Injection well at The Geysers
Injection well at The Geysers

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Geothermal plant in Iceland
Geothermal plant in Iceland

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Icelandic Geothermal Powerplant
Icelandic Geothermal Powerplant

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Hydroelectric Energy

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Embalse de Os peares
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Estação elétrica
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 Water to power
Water is fed through a tunnel, and then this pipe to reach the powerhouse. 

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Power ad Infinitum
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The Grand Coulee Dam
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Hoover Dam generators
These are Hoover Dam’s Nevada-side hydroelectric generators.

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Caribou Falls Generating Station
Caribou Falls Generating StationCreative Commons License photo credit: Ontario Power Generation

Cameron Falls Generating Station
Cameron Falls Generating Station

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Adam Beck Complex
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DeCew Falls 2
Ontario Power Generation’s DeCew Falls 2 Generating Station.

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Solar Energy

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Solar/sky
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GreenFestival_Solar Powered Super Wheelchair!
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Nuclear Energy

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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
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Brink
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Wind Energy

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Molinos de viento circa Tejona
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Wind Farm Rye
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Reclaimed land
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Energy
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