Inventors and Inventions In the Roaring 20's
By Ethan Larose and Neha Chahal
Frozen Foods
The Radio
The Band-Aid
- A man named Clarence Birdseye invented the frozen food we eat today
- Saw the way the inuit froze their fish and developed a theory
- Came up with packaging the meals then freezing them quickly
- Changed the way people enjoyed food all over Canada
- The Band-Aid was invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson for his wife
- Dickson prepared some ready-made bandages by placing squares of cotton gauze at intervals along an adhesive strip and covering them with crinoline
- He later pitched this idea to his boss and was promoted to vice-president of the company.
- Invented by Reginald Fessenden
- Born in 1868 in Quebec
- Worked in America in electricity field
- Was rejected from McGill but worked even harder on his theory
- Wasn't as known as he should have been
- Helped unite Canada
- Became a status symbol among people
The Snowblower
Insulin
- Prior to insulin. diabetes was most commonly associated with death
- Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best made the discovery of insulin
- Injected a dog with a hormone that lowered it's high blood glucose levels.
- Awarded Nobel Prize in 1923 for his discovery
- The Canadian inventor, Arthur Sicard, invented the snowblower in 1925.
- This blower allowed the driver to clear and throw snow over 90 feet away.
- Arthur Sicard invented this machine because roads in his local town were often snow-packed.
- His inspiration for this invention came from one of the early self-propelled combines