Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter,

Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier

To celebrate Canada's 150th birthday, Governor General David Johnston and Tom Jenkins have crafted a richly illustrated volume of brilliant Canadian innovations whose widespread adoption has made the world a better place. From Bovril to BlackBerrys, lightbulbs to liquid helium, peanut butter to Pablum, this is a surprising and incredibly varied collection to make Canadians proud, and to our unique entrepreneurial spirit.

Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces -- insight, necessity, and simple luck. Ingenious moves through history to explore what circumstances, incidents, coincidences, and collaborations motivated each great Canadian idea, and what twist of fate then brought that idea into public acceptance. Above all, the book explores what goes on in the mind of an innovator, and maps the incredible spectrum of personalities that have struggled to improve the lot of their neighbours, their fellow citizens, and their species.
Â Â Â Â From the marvels of aboriginal invention such as the canoe, snowshoe, igloo, dogsled, lifejacket, and bunk bed to the latest pioneering advances in medicine, education, philanthropy, science, engineering, community development, business, the arts, and the media, Canadians have improvised and collaborated their way to international admiration. Ingenious tells you why they did it and how they made the world a better place.
Country USA
Binding Hardcover
EAN 9780771050916
ISBN 0771050917
Label Signal
Manufacturer Signal
NumberOfPages 248
PublicationDate 2017-03-28
Publisher Signal
ReleaseDate 2017-03-28
Studio Signal

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780771050916
ISBN	0771050917
Label	Signal
Manufacturer	Signal
NumberOfPages	248
PublicationDate	2017-03-28
Publisher	Signal
ReleaseDate	2017-03-28
Studio	Signal

Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier

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