We asked you to compare the BlackBerry with the electric oven, life saving Insulin with artery clogging poutine, the caulking gun with the Wonderbra. Here are your rankings:
- Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best]
- Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
- Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
- Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan]
- Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier]
- Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
- Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson]
- Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
- Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
- Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance]
- Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
- Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
- Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell]
- Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC]
- Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming]
- Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
- Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier]
- BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
- Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
- Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples]
- Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
- Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack]
- UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet]
- Instant Replay [1955, CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada]
- Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante]
- Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders]
- Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall]
- Lacrosse [First Peoples]
- Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn]
- Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis]
- Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
- Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
- Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
- Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
- WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy]
- Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp]
- Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
- Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
- Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs]
- Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias]
- Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch]
- Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
- Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein]
- CPR Mannequin: “ACTAR 911” [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault]
- G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks]
- Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove]
- Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy]
- Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson]
- Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte]
- Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons]