American Reacts to Unexpected Canadian Inventions
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
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I tend to not know where stuff has been invented, so I know I am going to be very surprised when I react and learn about these 10 Canadian inventions. With that being said I am very interested know what kinds of innovations Canada has produced, and how they have impacted the world as a whole. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
I can't believe insulin was not on this list. Millions of people around the world suffer from diabetes, but until the 1920s there was no treatment for it.
Sir Frederick Banting was a Canadian scientist whose pioneering work using insulin to treat diabetes earned him the Nobel prize.
Because he was working on it in the US, ...it sort of doesn't count? But Ya, there's some smart cookies up this way.
@@iscovidoveryet7828 Unless the University of Toronto was located in the USA in the 1920s... then no. WTF are you talking about?
@@zammmerjammer I could've sworn he was doing research in Massachusetts.
But it has been some 40+ yrs since I first heard about it.
but thanks for the correction.
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There's a whole lot here in categories. Yet, Canadian ingenuity doesn't really stop there.
It's regarded as a discovery, not an invention.
When I moved to Canada from Texas and started doing some work on my condo, I encountered Robertson screws for the first time. I was annoyed at first, because I didn't have the driver or bits for them... but once I did, I was an instant convert. The bits find the hole easily, they don't strip like Philips heads do, and everything just works better. I'm never going back.
Thats what i tell people, Robertsons are just the best, they dont strip anywhere near as easily, they're more likely to snap! Philips are just American, so people stand by them :(
Welcome to the Robertson screw cult!
We used them in industrial construction in BC and I would go through literally hundreds of them everyday. They stick to the end of the driver and you can reach out with it at arms length. Super handy when you're perching on a pipe a hundred or more feet off the ground.
I trained in the military with a great grandson of the inventor of the Robertson screw. It's a point of pride in his family.
can thank Henry Ford for why they never made it to USA...he wanted the patent, didnt get it. lobbied congress to keep em out of USA
A Canadian invented basketball, insulin, road lines, peanut butter, garbage bags, pagers, telephone, canola, the zipper, paint roller brush, electric street cars, sonar, baby pablum, alkaline battery, wonderbra, caulking gun, odometer, Imax, Macintosh apple, walkie talkie and so many more.
Exactly, out of all the important inventions. Only these mostly random things make his top 10 list 😂
We didn’t invent macintosh apples the real history is a grove was found in Ontario by Mr.Macintosh as a new and distinct variety never seen before. It was discovered to late when most of the natural trees in the east had been cut down for urbanization and farmland, that this variety only grows from root propagation or cloning and all trees were attached by root to a single tree in the groves thruout the province. Thus all Macintosh apples are genetically identical due to the fact they are still all from the original tree they ended up having to be started from. So not invented or even engineered just lucky we realized not to last we could not get the same fruit or tree from seed.
@@khorihorton5207 All apples have to be grafted from a parent tree to maintain the true variety, not just Mackintosh apples. The only time you grow from seed is when you are trying to cross pollinate varieties to make a new hybrid variety. Same as roses, they are both part of the Rosaceae family, as are other stone fruits.
Keep on talkin brother
Don't forget bag milk,
And have to probably refine steel for longevity
I’m absolutely amazed and delighted that an American is showing interest in anything Canadian. How remarkable!
Shhh, he's probably a CIA spy. ROFLMAO.
Bullshit
He thinks, like most yanks, that no one else can invent anything, just them, remember he makes money his YTs , so his interest is fake
If you build anything with wood, Robertson screws are the only type worth using. Unlike the Philips design (which was originally intended for automotive assembly) it is much less prone to "torquing out" (having the driver slip out of the screw head), and much less likely to fall off the tip of the driver in situations where you have to deliver the screw to the pilot hole on the tip of the driver rather than with your fingers.
Torquing out, camming out, stripping out or breaking screw heads are why I hate Philips head screws. I need to carry a selection of dozens of Philips screwdrivers to make sure I have the exact one that fits. Not to mention bandages for when the screwdriver wobbles and sends it through my finger.
Apparently, Henry Ford tried to buy Robertson's patent for the squared-hole screw, but he refused. Since the Model T Ford car was produced en masse and spread everywhere in the world, the use of cross-head screws spread with it. So you can thank the stubbornness of Henry Ford for not wanting to pay royalty fees for all the screws you stripped.
@@lilo621 Robertson didn't sell Ford the patent for the square head screw because He wanted to keep it's production in Canada and Ford didn't want to buy them by the unit.
Good old #2 red screwdriver ❤
This dude has never seen a Robertson screw or screwdriver ? It's all I use. Far superior to Phillips. And those Torx screws are an annoying abomination .
I don't know why people are so shocked by the inventions that were done by Canadians. We are a very smart Nation and we've invented a lot more than what is listed on here
Because we're quietly brilliant LOL they also don't realize how many famous actors are actually Canadian lol
I think it’s largely a numbers thing. USA has 10x the people so they have 10x the inventors/engineers/scientists.
Like if having a clever invention is a 1 in a million thing, they get to roll the dice 10x for every 1x we do.
USA just assumes they did everything significant lol and don’t mention the rest.
He's quite condescending in his videos if you notice..
@@craigarthur7599 I agree it's a numbers thing because we are a very small nation compared to the states and when you look at it in terms of numbers yes they do have a major advantage over us. We've had many many young people that are doing research into cancer and are coming up with major innovations for cancer treatments and different methods and medications to treat cancer and in some cases from what I have read they have eradicated cancer in their test rats so that makes her great news here not just in Canada but for everybody. Our list could go on and on when it comes to innovations research that we are doing in Canada alone but because we are a small nation it doesn't get the same splash in the news for lack of a better way to say it as what they do in the states so I'm very proud to be a Canadian and I am very proud when one of our own people come up with a massive new innovation that is going to help so many millions of people.
The canadarm was the invention that literally allowed us to build the ISS, as well as dock ships and cargo so people can be up there
"I can't imagine a world without egg cartons!"
When what you're really saying is, "I can't imagine a world without Canadians!" 😉
The level of annoyance that I get when I come across any screw that is not a #2 Robby is almost embarrassing. #2 Robby should be a global standard 😂
Amen to that, brother.
I wouldn't need to attend Screw Strippers Anonymous meetings anymore 🤣
In reality haha this would be my ideal world: Torx/Robby/Socket Hex
Torx for machine style(fastening thread) screws for threaded holes/small nut-bolt fastening, low torque applications.
Robertson for standard(coarse self drilling thread) woodworking screws, metal self tapping etc. Hand or drill driven torque applications.
Socket Hex head bolts for heavy duty/high strength/high torque applications. Fastening bolts in threaded holes. Bolt-nut fastening. Lag bolts with self drilling coarse threads etc. Ratchet and Socket/Breaker Bar/Pneumatic/Hydraulic driven.
Head-shape/Taper choices based on application.
Right on !
It was almost adopted by ford as there standard screw when the model T was being built I believe, I imagine it would be used by the whole world now if that had happened.
Is that the red one? I only learned fairly recently that the handles are colour-coded. My husband is a devotee of the Robertson.
Robertson screws are vastly superior to Philips. When applying a lot of torque Robertsons are less likely to cam out. In addition, the screw will stay on the end of the driver when you put it in position.
Every Canadian carpenter cringes when a product built in the US comes with Philips head screws. Absolutely detest them!
@@ontheroadwithyode390 Although not nearly as terrible as a slot screw...
Phillips screws are designed to slip if you try to over torque. Robertson are designed to not slip. Each has a good engineering purpose but Philips is used for no good reason on cheap stuff because americans have them.
@@ccibinel The American Government wanted to use Robertson screws for the military and had contracted Ford to do so. But Ford wanted Robertson to sell him the patent. Robertson refused.
Then WW1 hit. Prior to Canada 🇨🇦 joining the war effort. Robertson was still selling Robertson screws to Germany. That pissed off the US and they boycotted the Robertson screw.
@@ontheroadwithyode390 This was an insider collusion issue in the US between Ford and the Gov't. Nothing stopped them using it but the creator didn't want to sell the patent. As prevalent as modern bribery is the freedom of information and communication prevents things as overt as this.
There was also the AVRO Arrow which was an interceptor plane. It was decades beyond any other plane in the world but unfortunately it was shut down after just a few were made.
And all those engineers end up with the US aeronautics and the space program...
Yes David Best it was an exceptional fighter jet reaching speeds of unheard of back then of Mach 2. Unfortunately they were way overbudget and the Beafort (sp?) surface to air missile was the Governments choice for defence of the Russians in the North.
@@kduquett .....Bomark, and already obsolete when Diefendorfer ordered them as a cheaper replacement for the Arrow. ua-cam.com/video/fghEZwmdVoI/v-deo.html
Excuse me, Bomarc should be spelled with a hard 'c', not a 'k' [just looked it up] .
They also forgot about the G-suit; from Wiki: Wilbur Rounding Franks, medical researcher, inventor of the "G suit" (b at Weston, Ont 4 Mar 1901; d at Toronto 4 Jan 1986). After graduating in medicine at the University of Toronto, Franks trained in cancer research under F.W. BANTING and took charge of wartime RCAF medical research after Banting's death. He invented the pressure suit, which allows pilots to carry out high-speed manoeuvres without losing consciousness, used by Allied fighter pilots from 1942 onwards. Astronauts' pressure suits today are mere refinements of Franks's design. For this project, he built in wartime the first Canadian human centrifuge. Franks's wartime laboratory became the RCAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, which became the Defence and Civil Institute of Environment Medicine, Toronto, and is now Defence Research and Development Canada.
@@kduquett Bomarc missile.
One of the most frustrating things about living abroad, besides not being able to eat perogies or Coffee Crisps, is the lack of Robertson screws.
Perogies are actually Ukranian
@@519breezy I never said they weren't, and I don't live in Ukraine either, so I still can't get them.
Although they're of Ukrainian origin, they're also very much Canadian.
Outside of Ukraine, Russia has the biggest Ukrainian community (fair, since they are neighbours). Then, Canada has the 2nd biggest Ukrainian community. Perogies are very popular at least in central Canada.
Perogies are pretty simple to make,
@@CraZY.pRIME. If you have the right ingredients.
Insulin is likely the single most necessary invention.
There's the paint roller, garbage bag, the pager, peanut butter, IMAX , the pacemaker, painted road lines, basketball, wireless radio transmission, the zipper, the telephone, light bulb, poutine, Hawaiian pizza, lacrosse, ringette, modern day hockey as well as football.
You are correct about insulin but you better not forget about penicillin I believe that was just as big of a discovery as insulin by two British researchers whereas it was three researchers here in Toronto in the early 1910s
Insulin is not an invention. It's a discovery. Insulin naturally is produced by the body. I believe the earliest form of insulin used to treat diabetes was from cows. I may be wrong about that last part.
Snowmobile too
How about instant mashed potatoes and baby pablum.
And basketball.
I knew Canadians invented the Canadarm (and the Hubble telescope in conjunction with the UK and US), the snowmobile, the snowblower, the Robertson screw is the best type of screw and yes, there is a specific screwdriver, and egg cartons. Insulin was also invented in Canada, and basketball.
Insulin was discovered, not invented
I'm in Canada and I use wheelchair accessible buses and electric wheelchairs, I had no idea these were invented in Canada!
The basic Wheelchair was also invented in canada by vets and no patent was put on it so that anyone could make them if the Canadian science and technology museum is to be believed.
Hey, if you're looking for more Canadian content check out the story of Canadian war hero Leo Majors. THE most badass Canadian to have ever lived, bar none. Dude is an absolute legend. A Hollywood movie of his exploits wouldn't be deemed too unbelievable to create. Spoiler alert for his story... His exploits include liberating a city from Nazis literally by himself, capturing 100 nazi soldiers single handedly. And in the Korean war, his unit captured a key tactical location on their own and withstood enemy counter offensives despite being short handed... Oh and yeah he did all that while only having one eye, as he lost the other to a grenade on d day. There are plenty of great UA-cam videos out there covering his achievements as a hero fighting nazis. Please help share his story with the world
I’m so glad I saw this comment! I will definitely be looking into him. Thank you and I will for sure be sharing his story whenever I can 🇨🇦 💪
Leo majour is a French Canadian badass . Canada really needs to tell his tale more as his family would love to hear to spread throughout Canada still to this very date. He’s Canada’s Audy’s Murphy.
Also Canada liberated holland and Genernal patron even commented on how much guts a Canadian solider has. We also wanted General Patton to go after Russia after that as well if you watch Patton. What was going on in Russia was no different than Germany.
The real life one-eyed Canadian Rambo, Leo Major ♡
Captain CameraLock - Is it spelled Majours?
I also recommend Leo Major, guy was crazy hard-core. Everyone needs to know about him. Infographics has a great telling of his story.
Bombardier went on to build trains, metro trains, and planes. It's one of our biggest industries here in Quebec.
And one of the greatest, publicly subsidized.
not to mention snowmobiles and seadoos
And skidoos
@@jasonarthurs3885 Unlike Embraer,Airbus and Boeing ?
@@vincentlefebvre9255 No. Very much like your examples. Thank you.
Hey, I've watched a bunch of your videos today, and I have to say, thanks. It's so nice of you to do this. There may have been moments of frustration when something wasn't quite understood, but then I thought "most wouldn't bother learning any of this". It's really sweet of you to spend your time learning about our country, and it's neat to see how surprising some of this stuff has been to you, since in canada we think of our country and history as so similar. Much love and appreciation.
Someone should mention the paint roller invented by Canadian Norman Breakey in 1940. It made it possible for an amateur to paint a room quickly and do a good job. The paint roller plus latex paint has made a great contribution to people having nice homes.
Actually Edward Morris 1939 tied a roller to a broom handle
Latex paint is garbage
Quebec Hydro uses snowmobiles when repairing power lines in winter in areas not easily accessible by car. When it snowed after hurricane Sandy in New York, Quebec sent teams of hydro workers with snowmobiles to help repair hydro lines.
Robertson Screws are almost exclusively used here in Canada, I heard a story from an electrician who used them in Florida (he was Canadian but spent the winters in Florida) as he was the only one there who had the proper screwdriver so he got a lot of repeat customers.
That's super weird. Anyone who has ever had to remove a Phillips screw from a wall or board would rejoice if they came across a Robertson. I'm not sure I've ever in my life seen a Phillips screw that wasn't stripped by the time it was installed. God, they're just the worst.
Yeah, those screws are good for fixing things to a wall or panel. Don't overtorque or else you will end up having a round hole instead of a square one.
It will also stay on your screwdriver or bit without having to hold it, freeing up your other hand to hold the material.
The other thing I like is that the screwdrivers are coloured. #1 is green, #2 is red, #3 is black. I know there are others but these are the most common ones i use. If I am up on a ladder and need my wife or daughter to get me a screwdriver, I just need to say "hand me the [insert colour here] one".
for more in-depth video information on the subject have a look at this, ua-cam.com/video/R-mDqKtivuI/v-deo.html added bonus is the gentleman channel is super interesting.
Proud Maritimer ( born in Nova Scotia ) here we are more than just hockey and poutine! Also there is more to Canada than just Montreal and Toronto!
YES!! Spread the news about the Robertson screws. Use them everywhere. It feels so dumb to use anything else after that.
You have to watch Canada Heritage Minutes. They tell stories about Canada in 1 minute. Dan Ackroyd, Pierce Brosnan are in them
Goofd idea. Those Heritage Minutes are great!
The Robertson Screw is the BEST screw design. They are used everywhere. You can put the screw on the screwdriver, and it holds because of the shape. The screw design never strips either. So superior to others.
I wouldn't say it never straps. It sure doesn't strip as fast as a Phillips, but you definitely can strip a Robertson if you put the effort in.
@@scotthodgins7975 You shouldn't ever be able to strip one or else you're doing something horribly wrong.
@@theandice8152 hehege.. if you are using a powered screwdriver, and don't have the proper leverage or the screw is in an extremely inaccessible place .... anything is possible.
@@theandice8152 or in my personal case, you don't have the right bit ... you can strip them.
Otherwise you are correct.
You need to do a part two of this, Look at the comments below and research these other Canadian inventions. There are some big ones people have listed. Also, love your channel.
Insulin ! and despite American myths on the subject, peanut butter was invented in Montréal.
All the fencing around my home and all my deck are assembled using Robertson screws. There is no better type for woodworking. Yes, I have a full set of Robertson screwdrivers and drill bits. They are extremely common in Canada. The History Guy dedicated an episode to it and why it's mostly unknown outside Canada.
false , they're called decking screws in the U.S and are used in construction , very common item
@Almost Average available everywhere , ace hardware , home depot , Lowe's etc , hell I think they have them at walmart
Just randomly discovered your channel. I have to say, it awesome. Your content is positive, fun, educational (love it when you Google) and keeping it real.
Much appreciated, thank you
Insulin, road lines, the pacemaker, Java the most use programming language ever, wireless radio. And Alexander graham bell, the creater of the first practical telephone was a canadian / american dual citizen. The fact he needed to dip into snowblower and snow mobile is actually baffling
Traffic lights too. First one in the world was in Toronto I believe
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-Canadian-American
Alexander Graham-Bell invested the telephone in my home town of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The 1st phone call was made between Brantford, Ontario and Mt. Pleasant, Ontario.
he also worked on hydroplanes and airplanes
Actually born in Scotland
The Robertson screw, also known as a Robby, it the best thing since sliced bread. Once you use one you'll never want anything else. Here in the U.S. they aren't as easily found, but they're here and they're awesome. Once you use one, you'll be addicted. Today it's not a tradesman screw, they're used everywhere because you don't strip out a Robertson screw, it's a non-slip screw and driver.
We also invented the baseball glove and green ink used to print US money. Canada rocks.
The ink used to print US money is not the same one that was invented in Canada, it is a mixture of 3 different shades of green now.
@@marydavis5234 No argument on that but, the first bills in green ink started out with the green ink manufactured in Canada. It's a fact that nobody denies.
I went to the University of Waterloo in waterloo ontario Canada. My astronomy professor actually wrote most of the code for the original Canadarm. Very interesting man to talk to.
Canada also invented the Cobalt Bomb. This was a machine for treating cancer with radiation. Canada also invented velcro
I thought Velcro was invented by George de Mestral, who is Swiss
Velcro was invented in Switzerland by a Swiss engineer.
Just to be clear, a cobalt bomb is a type of dirty weapon. What you are referring to is a type of radiotherapy machine that uses a beam of Cobalt. "Cobalt Bomb" or "Cancer Bomb" are just nicknames.
Robertson's are definitely the superior screw for woodworking.
Canadarm... "Does it take pictures?". 😂 Yes! It's the biggest selfie stick ever!
just started watching your videos and as a canadian i really respect your videos and thoughtful kind words you use for us canadians! Keep Doing Your Thing Tyler!
It was railroads that lead to the standardization of time zones. Before that towns set their own local time based on the sun only. Clocks being off by a few minutes wasn't an issue for travel until trying to have arrival/departure schedules for the trains.
Even more important was the timing of trains. When you run trains in both directions on a single track local trains must pull over into a siding to allow express trains to pass. Timing is critical, which is why the conductor and engineer had special, very accurate "railroad watches" and trains ran to a tight time schedule. This would only work if everyone was using the same timing and that is why Sir Sandford Fleming invented time zones.
the best invention bar far was the stubby beer bottle, a classic, many fond memories of fishing trips with stubbies.
Opps, I fact checked myself, to my dismay the stubby was invented in America, life will never be the same now. :)
Ralph Nader, the American consumer advocate, wrote a book solely about inventions by Canadians.
“Snowmobiles are used everywhere on the planet now” is my favourite quote from this video, I love Americans, and I love these videos keep em coming.
Yes, I understand that Saudi Arabia has ordered 100,000 of them.
The first electronic synthesizer was developed by a Canadian, Hugh Le Cain, at the National Research Council of Canada.
That is so cool - one I didn't know!
Was that MOOG? Or something like that?
My Dad worked with Le Cain at the NRC. Dad was a sergeant in the RCAF and an expert sheet metal worker. He built a lot of the prototypes for the very early radars during WWII and also the chassis for Le Cains projects, many of which had nothing to do with music. As a matter of interest, the first musical composition for an electronic synthesizer is a piece called "Dripsody" which Le Cain created from the sound of a single drop of water dripping into a cup of water.
Bonus round!! More stuff invented in my home country, Canada:
- The paint roller, around 1940 in Toronto by Norman Breakey, but he died before being able to patent his invention and profit from it.
- The garbage bag, was invented by Harry Wasylyk and Larry Hansen in Winnipeg in 1950.
- The pager, was invented by Alfred J. Gross, a Toronto-based wireless communications pioneer, in 1949. Gross is also often credited as the inventor of the walkie-talkie, the CB radio and the cordless phone.
- Peanut butter! was created in 1884 by Canadian pharmacist Marcellus Gilmore Edson.
- Road lines. The first road lines in the world were painted on a stretch of highway between Ontario and Quebec in 1930, having been invented by Ontario department of transport engineer John D. Millar.
- IMAX, was invented by a trio of Canadian filmmakers - Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr - in 1967
- The pacemaker. The first subcutaneous pacemaker was built in 1949 by Canadian engineer John Hopps
- Basketball, was invented by Canadian James Naismith. However, despite being born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, he didn't invent it in Canada. Rather, he invented the sport while working as a physical education instructor at a YMCA in Massachusetts in 1891. He came up with the rulebook the following year. He eventually moved to Kansas, where he became the University of Kansas's first basketball coach.
- Pablum, was invented in 1930 by three pediatricians at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.
- Insulin, was discovered in 1921 by Toronto doctor Frederick Banting and further developed at the University of Toronto by Banting, Charles Best, John Macleod and Bertram Collip.
- Wireless radio transmission. Canadian Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a prolific inventor in the area of wireless technology - he was the first to broadcast on the AM radio band in 1900.
- The Electronic Synthesizer, was invented by NRC physicist Hugh LeCaine in the mid-1940s.
Canadian's also invented the paint roller , peanut butter , garbage bags , imax , wonderbra , pablum , insulin
It would be easy to do a top 25 list
Not so sure we should be proud of garbage bags as an afterthought now.
@@iscovidoveryet7828 lol
@@iscovidoveryet7828 it kinda goes hand in hand with bagged milk lol
@@gordg6904 I love bagged milk it's easy to freeze as well as tastes freshest
The Robertson screw is easier to use because it can’t strip like the Phillip screwdriver. We also invented Velcro, the paint roller, insulin, the telephone, the first hydroplane, the iron lung, the record player, sign language and many, many more
Canada's most famous inventor was Reginald Fessenden (1866 -1932) a radio pioneer ( amplitude modulation) who made the 1st radio broadcast with voice and music ( reference Britannica)
Nah, the insulin is more important then a landline, Wich most people now wouldn't even know what it is
many Canadians have emigrated in the past to the States and contributed greatly to America in many ways. like Bell! (telephone). and Kraft (cheese). McCoy, (the real McCoy). and.. Canadian lumber!
just to note the canadaarm was exclusivly used by the space shuttle, aka USA purchased all of them. And the canadaarm 2 did 90% of the heavy lifting to put the ISS together. Roberson screws are just about the only woodscrew in Canadaand there are 4 common sizes, so yes you need 4 screwdrivers, but it is a wonderful screw. One other investion of note, the telephone.
You can file down a Phillips and use it for a Robertson if you're in a pinch and only have 3 drivers lol
Except 90% of Robertson screws are #2
"Passe-moi le tournevis carré rouge"
By the sound of it, I'm not sure this guy is familiar with the Space Shuttle. Lol
I didn't know Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian LOL
Sir Sanford Fleming was a surveyor and engineer. Before the railways, the fastest mode of travel was on horseback. Every town had an official clock that set noon by the moment the sun crossed the meridian. Small differences in time between towns east or west of each other were of no consequence until the railways were built. The train couldn't fit a schedule where the time kept changing between towns. Fleming came up with the idea of standardising the time over large areas, ie creating one hour time zones. Standard time would allow railways to keep a consistent schedule.
12:30 in Newfoundland😀
@@alphabeta1094 And Mars rotates in 23 1/2 hours so there's proof that Newfoundlanders are from Mars.
Any tradesman can tell you how terrible and annoying flathead screws are- your screwdriver slips off. With Robertson screws this problem is eliminated!
Also for building decks which I've done. Use a Robertson screwdriver bit in my drill to drive the screws. Phillips screws are okay, but Robertson ones are better.
Hate flat head.
Flat heads are only good for stabbing your hand and opening the paint can after you stab your hand
The Robertson screw is used everywhere in the world where you would use Philips screws, except for the US. Its exactly like how Metric is used everywhere in the world except for the US. The reason is that when Robertson invented his screw design Ford wanted to buy the rights to it and make it proprietary to the ford motor company. But Robertson refused, he wanted it to be more widely used because it is an inherently superior design to the Philips screw. Henry Ford got so angry at being refused that he used his influence to suppress Robertson and promote Philips.
Ron Samson : I'm not surprised at all. That is "amurican" arrogance at its best.
Also: Insulin, artificial pacemaker, pablum, wonder bra, incandescent light bulb, paint roller, quartz clock, pager, garbage bag, peanut butter, road lines, imax, basketball, fiber glass goalie mask, java programing language, wireless radio transmission, the zipper, and more...
I happen to live in the city where the Blackberry was invented, which also happens to be the city that invented the Blue Bin (recycling). This city is also home to The Hacksmith, a popular youtuber that invents cool things.
Waterloo region! Awesome area. Underrated place in Canada.
It wasn't so much "the blackberry" as it was the software it used, RIM network or Research In Motion, however obsolete it is now, it was invented in Kitchener ont, the software that's on the phone, not the actual phone cell phones were already around for awhile
I grew up just up the street ( university ave) from the Universities.
My best friends dad taught at the University of waterloo. I'm always pretty proud every time I hear of them doing something new and innovative.
The square screw is far more better than the other version , but for some reason americans refuse to use it , i heard stories of canadian workers going to help rebuilding after hurricane Katrina , they had their square screw drills and the screws with them , they were going like 3-time fasters than the Americans with normal screws.
Bullshit , we use nail guns 1000x faster then the screw , P.S we have that screw as well except here we call it a decking screw
@@tomjones2121 LOL do you think nail guns are exclusively American? And decking screws aren't the same as construction screws.
Maybe read up a bit on it more before commenting, all you're doing now is reinforcing the ignorant American stereotype.
@@hannabis80 whatever tickles your fancy , it's just a box screw ..
That was on the Mike Holmes show!
Robertson screws are popular in Canada but not in the us because Robertson wouldn’t give up a piece of the royalties. The advantage is that they don’t slip as much when being either screwed in or out.
Heart pacemakers and insulin two inventions by Canadians that have saved countless lives.
Both invented in my hometown of London Ontario. Fully robotic surgery meant for space was also invented at UWO.
That was a good episode!
Now I'm off to see how egg cartons are made! 😂
Look up Ford Model T and Robertson Screw. The screw is so much more effective and firm that Ford used them exclusively in Model T. It was estimated that with mass production model and the screw saved about 10% of the total cost of production. What went wrong? WW1 came along and US invented their own screw for military use (called Phillips) and, after the war ended and the war production slowed down there was a huge surplus of Phillips screws for dirt cheap. Guess what the US manufactures bought? The best or the cheapest?
"Henry Ford discovered using Robertson head screws could shave almost 2 hours off the assembly time of a vehicle" As today, Ford had manufacturing plants in both the USA and Canada. The Canadian production saved over 20% on the cost of producing the wooden bodies. When explored, the huge advantage of the Robertson screw was found. OTOH the US uses Robertson in all Power Panels as, nobody has the screw driver and thousands, if not millions of "accidents" have been averted, by limiting the handy mans access into the power box. Quite useful, no?
I heard that Henry Ford would not allow the use of Robertson screws in US Ford production because they were patented, and he did not believe in buying anything from a single supplier. But Ford of Canada used them in Model T bodies.
@@mrdanforth3744 Ford wanted to buy the patent outright, for the Robertson and use them exclusively, Robertson said no... not sure if he made the right decision, as Ford was well-known for overpaying for exclusivity rights on any tooling he bought.
@@mrdanforth3744 "Ford, wanting to protect his assembly advantage, asked for a licensing agreement from Robertson so that he could manufacture and control the distribution of the screws. Robertson Screw Machine Robertson had expanded, by this time, into Europe. But his fortunes turned bad when the war (WW1) started." That is what I said, sir. BTW do you think the "Philips" screw are not patented also????? Really???? Even the common nail head on all nails is patented by someone in Baden, Germany. Patents, in volume purchases volumes, are not onerous at all. Actually a great example of the free enterprise system in action. You pay pennies on thousands of screw (or nail) heads for a design that is superior. Do you really think people invent things so that no one can afford to use them? WOW.
I am an amateur house maintenance engineer... ie homemaker, housewife, B & B owner, but also helped renovate a few houses and we built one house... with a contractor, but did a lot of work ourselves. My go to screwdriver is a Robertson. It does not slip and helps when one has arthritis.
The Robertson screw is used any where you'd use a screw. Its advantage is when you place the screw on the drive bit, it stays there. This enables you to reach when putting a screw into something [ a wall or deck ] and the screw does not fall off the bit. The reason you don't have them in the USA is because Henry Ford blocked them from being imported.
Bullshit , we have them here , we've had them for decades , they're called decking screws here
@@tomjones2121 it's not BS, yeah they're available as decking screws but that's it. In the US they use that shitty torx instead of Robertson for construction screws.
@@hannabis80 we don't use screws for construction except for drywall and electric boxes , maybe that's why a Canadian house costs a million + LOL
USA uses nails not screws for construction. We needing less moveable houses to account for our cooler climate and more shifting expanding and contracting from harsh temperatures changes to come up with an option that can’t just slide out with see if any type of reverse pressure is applied. Plus a screw and a nail cost almost the same here when talking construction grade so that wouldn’t affect our overall cost to build. It cost nowhere near $1 million to build a home unless you’re building a home that cost $1 million that home would probably be worth triple that once it was built in this country the reason they cost $1 million is because we have one of the most stable and desirable real estate markets on the planet and everybody wants to be here and we can’t build houses fast enough to even meet demand before their bought lol so that’s reality now cost so much but yes it does cost us more for us here. The sad part is petroleum wise and lumber wise where your largest supplier as trade partner of both as well as 30% of your energy needs are bought from Canada energy and yet you and the consumers that use these products it way less to use the same products we shipped to you then we do for the product at the trees we send you come from right out of my backyard and I still pay more for lumber than you that’s just called hire taxation and that’s why we benefit from so many social programs that don’t tag us with random bills out of the blue for every little thing we do in life because it’s not covered by any government program. I digress lol Most things constructed with a screw instead of a nail tend to last 2x as long and need less repairs in that span as well. I would never build a deck with nails I’d have to replace half the deck within the first five years due to what the water does to it. Nails allow things to move and shift screws hold it more in place and thus things move and shift more together thus allowing less water to get into places it doesn’t dry naturally thus causing rot and retention right at joint areas and such plus our screws for this are made of non rust materials so they hold up better then nails designed to do the same many times just a coating or powdering of some kind to stop rust not a metal that doesn’t rust so yes while it may in incur a pit more cost as they are a bit more costly and take a bit more time to install it’s the preferred way for quality and durability most contractor and construction workers still just use nail guns for most of the build and only they stuff you mentioned as well as drywall and fixtures and such use screws we’re just as financially responsible and cost-effective up here as you guys are down there and our contractors are just so shady and cheap and cut as many corners as they can wherever they can I do home inspection so let me tell you it’s rare to find on them properly by anyone ever need anything illegal or not to code but The term cookie-cutter home didn’t come out of nowhere and I’m pretty sure you use that term down there too shit just don’t last like it used to either way
@@tomjones2121 Dude I live in the US and I'm remodeling my poorly built American house. There are construction screw you muppet, and they use the inferior torx pattern and they're fucking garbage.
The electron microscope is another one. Advanced science in many ways
10. BASKETBALL
It may be the game of the inner city now, but it never would have existed without Dr James Naismith. Born in Canada and a student of phys ed in Montreal, Dr Naismith moved to the US where he introduced the game in 1891 to a group at the YMCA in Springfield, Mass as a way to keep track athletes in shape during the harsh winter season.
The early games involved peach baskets and when players got tired of climbing a ladder to remove the ball after each score, they cut a hole in the bottom so the ball would fall through. BTW, Naismith is also credited with having invented the football helmet too.
The advantage of the Robertson screw; when driving screw in or out, the screwdriver applies torque to 4, relatively large surfaces when compared to Phillips (cross or star head) or standard slot headed screws. This additional surface contact also helps prevent the screwdriver from slipping out when turning. It can also easily be done one-handed.
Robertson screws are nearly universal in Canada. They are not specific to a particular trade, and are used in general construction right down to DIY.
When Canadian galleries and museums crate a painting or an artifact for loan to a foreign institution, we often include a couple of the Robertson bits; otherwise, those at the destination may not be able to open them.
@♜WhatsApp Me+①③⓪②⑤⑤①⑧⑤⑨② You are not Tyler.
Anyone else see the irony in the last name of the man who invented the wheelchair accessible bus?,……. Mr. Walker!!
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I believe the Robertson Screw was used a lot in machine building, the screw, having a square head was easier to slot a driver into, its square there are 4 ways it fits in the hole, the driver does not strip as easily as a slot, etc.
I was surprised Insulin was not on the list too, but I guess... it was discovered and purified not invented. (as it is naturally occurring in the body.) There are others as well that I think should have made a top ten, but everyone ranks things differently.
Not just the Blackberry but the cellphone itself was actually invented in Canada, it was the Aurora project invented in the 1970’s by Nova-Tel in Alberta, when the project was completed and the first prototypes were built, Nova-Tel sold the Aurora off to Motorola.
One of hubby’s first summer jobs was working on blueprints for Motorola’s cellphones. A few years later they lent a few to a festival I worked for. The size of a shoe box but at the time, super cool 😂😂😂
Check out the origins of your CIA, educated at Camp X, on lake Ontario, you may have to look outside U.S., to get these facts, but should be, as you say, mindblowing.
I had to look up the Fleming guy to find out just how he invented time zones and came up with this from wikipedia:
Scottish-born Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming proposed a worldwide system of time zones in 1876 The proposal divided the world into twenty-four time zones labeled A-Y (skipping J), each one covering 15 degrees of longitude. All clocks within each zone would be set to the same time as the others, but differed by one hour from those in the neighboring zones. He advocated his system at several international conferences, including the International Meridian Conference, where it received some consideration. The system has not been directly adopted, but some maps divide the world into 24 time zones and assign letters to them, similarly to Fleming's system.
By about 1900, almost all inhabited places on Earth had adopted a standard time zone, but only some of them used an hourly offset from GMT. Many applied the time at a local astronomical observatory to an entire country, without any reference to GMT. It took many decades before all time zones were based on some standard offset from GMT or Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
We used Robertson screws once in a machine that shipped to the US. We had to send screwdriver bits with the machine to allow the customer to do maintenance. Robertson bits were not available down there.
Also interesting to note, the first recorded (American-style or Gridiron) football game was at the University of Toronto in Canada.
yes and Mcgill demonstrated the game at Harvard in 1883
You can buy Robertson bits in the US, and they're available for decking screws only.
I actually remember reading about this. Both countries played sport they called football, but the American and Canadian versions were so far apart from eachother. Harvard and McGill played a series of games, one in Canada and the other in the states. First game was in Canada playing the canadians version. Harvard fell in love with it and adopted our version.
Details might be a bit off but if my memory serves me right, I have the jyst of this correct.
@@toddr037 There are still differences between the American and Canadian versions. Canadian football uses 12 players per side and the field is wider and 110 yards long. We also only have three downs instead of four.
Insulin was discovered at the University of Toronto by 3 men, one from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States respectively. Thank you for saving so many lives ❤
No journey into all things Canadian is complete without a dive into Canadian icon Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip. You won't regret it!
Yeah, listen to some great Canadian Music.
The Tragically Hip, Rush, many more.
Yes, a segment on Canadian music or musicians would be interesting, especially the ones who are primarily known by Canadian audiences: Gord Downie, Bruce Cockburn, Jan Aarden, Sarah McLauchlin, Mathew Good, Rush etc.
One invention that is never mentioned, is the 735-kV high-voltage transmission line.
Then 750 kV, then 1 MV!!
That is a major invention! Amazing!!
Hey Tyler. Do you know who Terry Fox is? If not, you should check out the Terry Fox Story. A True Canadian Hero!
he did it already
I missed it. I think I saw a video that included him. But not the full story.
One I have to thank you when I discovered you I am actually the commenter that would say you stopped the video too much and so forth and so forth so first of all I'm sorry there is a lot to know I think I've just been in a really bad mood for a while but thank you you're doing a great job actually. There have been a lot of inventions by Canada or Canadians and you are touching on a few but I just wanted to commend you for wanting to get to know us. Thank you our us brother you're doing us proud. Awwwe we are such sucks here, LOL thank you God bless
5. THE LIGHTBULB
I know what you’re thinking, Thomas Edison wasn’t Canadian. But did you know that Thomas Edison is one of 24 people credited with having invented the incandescent light bulb? It was actually Henry Woodward (a Canadian) who invented the electric light bulb in 1874 and then sold the patent to Thomas Edison. Woodward’s lamp was very crude, Edison refined it and made it commercially viable.
Edison never invented anything. Everything he supposedly invented, like the light bulb, was invented by others. Edison merely figured out how to commercialize them. His original inventions, like a way to talk to ghosts, were worthless.
The concept behind the light bulb is fairly old. You run enough current through a wire and it will heat up and emit light. However, the wire will quickly burn out. The wire would have to be placed in a vaccuum to last a decent length of time and the best wire materials were too expensive for commercial production. Edison had the resources to test thousands of different materials before he discovered one that was cheap and lasted long enough to be economical to mass produce.
I believe he did invent the screw connection that all screw in light bulbs have
Sold? Edison was known for grabbing and running to the patent office to get his name on so much.
Robertson screws are the best. The screw will stay on the bit, so you can get them started, you're able to apply much more torque to them, before they strip, every hardware store in Canada carries them. Americans that try them are always amazed by how good they are.
The Blackberry is more than just a phone company. They originally had their HQ in Guelph, ON and still supply highly secure software for encrypting data on phones and in transmission.
Blackberry is now focusing on the tech for driverless cars and have a testing location here in Stratford Ontario
RIM.. later called Blackberry was always headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, not Guelph.
@@gryph01 lots of office buildings still there when I last drove by Waterloo
@@gryph01 right, thanks, I'm getting my university cities mixed up.
I worked at Parliament when they supplied MP’s with Blackberry phones. They were addicted to them and called them Crackberries.
Hi Tyler, I have the good fortune of having a French mother and an English father, both born in the province o Quebec. There are French Canadians in every province in Canada not just Quebec and there are many English Canadians in Quebec. Almost all French Canadians speak English as well but they are more inclined to speak English to you if you at least try to learn a bit of French when in Quebec. Being bilingual is an asset but not always necessary...lol...besides many English speaking Canadians also live in Quebec. I like your videos it's nice to know you are curious and are enjoying learning more about Canada.
I guess this is a "fun" list. Didn't mention Insulin, Radio, Pacemaker, Basketball, Hockey among more important inventions
Marconi doesn't count, he wasn't canadian. He Just used NFLD as a staging Area.
We use robertson for most wood based projects like decks up here. They have a lot of the same benefits as phillips but they will stick on the bit better and don't cam out as easily. They are absolutely fantastic screws.
The Robertson screw is preferred because the star -shaped Phillips screws get stripped very easily.
If you buy any screwdriver or set of bits in Canada, you're pretty much guaranteed to get at least one #2 (Red) Robertson bit in it. (The kind you use to drive #8 wood screws, among other things) It's not an issue, and the first thing many Canadians do when installing something that needs to be screwed into place is to throw away the included Phillips (the + ones) screws and replace them with Robertson equivalents. They're as commonplace in Canada (and as broadly applicable) as Phillips screws are in the U.S.
How was Insulin not on the list?!?
Gas masks were invented by a Newfoundlander, though it is part of Canada now, it was a separate nation back then.
Robertson screws are vastly superior to Phillips. The bit doesn't slip nearly as easily as it does with other heads.
Host seems act-amazed as these go on. Thumbs up for usefull pod cast.
Canadian Heritage Minutes. If you want to learn more about Canadian History.
Those are excellent. They were made bt the government to give Canadians snippets of Canadian history. The good thing about it was they didn't whitewash the ugly parts
At the time of the invention of the Robertson screw the slotted screw was the most popular. One of the drawbacks of the slotted screw was its tendency to slip out of the 'slot' in the screw head. On the other hand the Robertson screw provided more surface area allowing the screw to be driven tighter and less likely to slip when removing rusted screws, etc.
Screws Roberson used as the most common in Canada easy to use with drills
Keep in mind when the gas mask was invented by a newfoundlander during the world War, newfoundland wasn't a part od Canada at the time, as it didn't join the confederation until 1949, it was still a separate dominion under tye UK, making the individual who invented it a British citizen
Canada has a long history in space. After the US and Russia, Canada was the 3rd nation in space with Alouette 1
First to break the sound barrier in an Avro...
Canada invented American cheese no joke!
On the subject of the First World War gas masks, thousands of Canadian soldiers were wounded or killed by the German Mustard Gas. and how some of these soldiers were brought back to Canada and had to be cared for in a hospital for the rest of their lives. In St. Thomas , Ontario, some of these men from 1914 to 18 survived in the hospital until even the 1980's.
Blackerries were made by Research In Motion R.I.M. My brother worked there.. he got a RIM job 🤣
Robertson screws don't slip nearly as easily as a flat head(Phillips driver). The square design grips to all corners.
Time zones had alot to do with higher speed travel and communication. It didn't matter if you were on horse when exactly noon was but for trains and business calls it did .
The Snowmobile... are you 😮?
LOL, mine too.. My oldest brother Jay (recently retired) was there from the very beginning, and you and I can thank him for writing some of the software every cell phone uses today.
But what I like is, even if they don't make phones anymore, my shares benefit from the Royalties every cell phone manufacturer has to pay RIM/Blackberry to use. Sweet..
LOL @ "RIM Job" haha
11:40 The advantage of the square screw is that the forces are optimized so that if the screw is hard to remove, we can force more and it won't rip off the screw as it is the case for the star screw. Another canadian invention : the discovery of Insulin (which lead the the Nobel prize).
I agree - why not insulin? And peanut butter - this would have blown Tyler's mind.
in 1889 Dr Edson patented peanut paste in Canada and In 1895 Dr Kellogg, an American made the first peanut butter ,
As a Canadian, I learn a lot /am reminded about my own country & its history of accomplishments from this guy doing the same thing. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Not a great list, I've seen more impressive lists of Canadian inventions.
12:35 they are the most common screw here unless and item is built outside the counrty. most of our wood screw are this. They do not strip nearly as easily, and i find they hold the drill bit a lot better than philips or flat heads.
Robertson screw heads are far superior to a Philips head, but the Philips people had more marketing power. Sort of like how BETAMAX was far superior to VHS.
Canada is also a world leader in prosthetic tech. I have a friend that graduated engineering and moved to Calgary and they are developing a prosthetic that connects to the nerves in your arms to move it's fingers and stuff it is really cool
The Robertson was prevented from entering the US for a long time due to a dispute between Ford, who wanted the exclusive patent rights, and Robertson, who wanted the the screw to be used by everyone. Ford blocked off it being used by his company when he was refused and so it was blocked off from being used in most industries in the US.
The Robertson screw itself was invented to help with the issues the the Standard, flat head, and the Phillips, the cross screw, had which is sliding off and wearing down of the screw heads with every use. It is common in Canada, especially in wood using industries and it is used worldwide but in the US had made considerable efforts to prevent it's entry back when it was popularizing due to Ford.
Canadians invent the egg carton in 1911, Russians use said egg carton as Tank armor in 2022. History is such a funny thing.