Oakville Historical Society – Speaker’ Nights: OH CANADA! Our Home and Inventive Land!
Jun 17, 2024
Oakville Historical Society - Speaker' Nights: OH CANADA! Our Home and Inventive Land!
Date: June 17, 2024, 7:30 pm - 9 pm
Location: Oakville Museum (Coach House), Coach House, 8 Navy Street, Oakville.
Professor Mark Rector is our speaker and an author. From a life-long passion for Canadian inventors and technology, Professor Mark Rector has written this comprehensive tome, chock full of inventors’ stories, firsts, and innovations that happened here in our “Home and Inventive Land.”
From the compound steam engine and gasoline of the Industrial Revolution to the lightbulb and the telephone of the Victorian era to the Canadarm and Blackberry of today; we invented them all!!! YES, ALL OF THEM!
From the tragedy of the Avro Arrow, to the triumph of millions saved by the pacemaker. The stories of Bell Canada, the Robertson screw, SPAR Aerospace, Northern Telecom and Easy-Off! All of the Canadian ingenuity and innovation crammed into one light, breezy compendium! Mark will be selling his book. Copies of the book will be available for purchase by cash or cheque. You may buy a copy now. Ingenium has the lowest shipping cost. Gift wrapping too. Ingenium is also a fascinating website.