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| Link | rowid | artifactNumber | ObjectName | GeneralDescription | model | SerialNumber | Manufacturer | ManuCountry | ManuProvince | ManuCity | BeginDate | EndDate | date_qualifier | patent | NumberOfComponents | ArtifactFinish | ContextCanada | ContextFunction | ContextTechnical | group1 | category1 | subcategory1 | group2 | category2 | subcategory2 | group3 | category3 | subcategory3 | material | Length | Width | Height | Thickness | Weight | Diameter ▲ | image | thumbnail | |
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| 44301 | 44301 | 1987.0138.006 | 11 | 22.0 cm | 98.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1987.0138.006.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1987.0138.006.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 44302 | 44302 | 1987.0138.007 | 11 | 22.0 cm | 98.0 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 105166 | 105166 | 2012.0035.012 | Cable | A synthetic cable with metal connectors for the antenna and the GPS. | Trimble Navigation Lt. | United States of America | California | Sunnyvale | 2010 | circa | 21 | A synthetic cable with metal connectors. | The Smiths used the two devices on their mixed field crop operation outside of Port Colborne Ontario where they grew mostly corn and soy beans for sale to livestock feed suppliers. They have farmed in the area for about the past fifty years. Specifically it was used on their John Deere 7800 series tractor and either their Tyler Patriot or Argo-Trend self-propelled sprayers. Mr. Smith also used the technology in his custom planting. | The cable connects the antenna to the GPS. | It uses satellite technology to map the fields in which the implement is working. The cab is outfitted with an antenna to receive these signals and the unit collects that material in its "brain". Trimble touts the unit as allowing longer operating days as the normal visual control required during seeding and spraying can be replaced by the combination of the GPS and Auto-Steering attachments. The guidance system is equipped so that records can be transferred via USB to a PC for long term storage on its hard drive. When mounted in the implement a small screen displays the field position in relation to data that either has been stored or is currently being received from a satellite. According to Trimble sales material the system has accuracy down to one inch of control. | Exploration and Survey | Measurement-position | Angle direction & distance | Agriculture | Power sources | Parts | 5.5 | 97.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0035.012.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0035.012.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||
| 39212 | 39212 | 1985.0247.006 | 9 | 137 | 95.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1985.0247.006.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1985.0247.006.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12038 | 12038 | 1971.0709.001 | Bell clock | cast metal painted. | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | Grey painted exterior. | Horology | Clocks | Clock parts | metal->bronze - possible | 80 | 93.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1971.0709.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1971.0709.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11708 | 11708 | 1971.0580.002 | Basket balloon | WICKER/ROPE | Unknown | Unknown | 2 | UNFINISHED | COVERED BASKET ATTACHED TO SOUNDING BALLOON AND USED TO CARRY METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS INTO UPPER ATMOSPHERE TO TAKE READINGS. | Meteorology | Lifting & flying apparatus | Parts & accessories | plant->wicker;fibre | 108 | 92.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1971.0580.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1971.0580.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 53856 | 53856 | 1990.0012.026 | METAL | GREEY WM. & J.G. | Canada | Ontario | Toronto | 32 | BLACK | A FLOUR BOLTING MACHINE INVENTED BY CARL HAGGENMACHER OF HUNGARY & MFD. UNDER PATENT IN CANADA BY CANADIAN COMPANY OF GREEY OF TORONTO. | .26-.28 ARE FLYWHEEL AND BASE USED TO DRIVE MECHANISM BY IMPARTING GYRATING MOTION TO BOX SIEVES (.8-.25)/ PLANSIFTER WAS TYPE OF FLOUR BOLTING MACHINE WHICH SCALPED (SCREENED COARSE STOCK FROM FINE) GRADED (SEPARATED DIFFERENT GRADES OF MIDDLINGS FROM FINE) & DRESSED (SIFTED) FLOUR COMBINING ALL THESE FUNCTIONS IN ONE MACHINE (Ref. 1). PLANSIFTER SEPARATED CRUSHED WHEAT INTO MIDDLINGS & FLOUR. | INVENTION IN 1887 OF PLANSIFTER REVOLUTIONIZED BOLTING METHODS IN FLOUR MILLS BECAUSE IT TOOK UP LESS ROOM & REQUIRED LESS POWER THAN SEVERAL MACHINES PREVIOUSLY USED FOR SAME FUNCTIONS. PLANSIFTER WAS BEGINNING OF TREND AWAY FROM REVOLVING REEL TOWARDS BOLT MACHINES WITH FLAT SIEVES MOVING WITH A ROTARY ACTION (Ref. 1). | Industrial Technology | Industrial equipment | Food processing | metal | 40 | 92.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1990.0012.026.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1990.0012.026.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||
| 79506 | 79506 | 1998.0181.002 | Cover | synthetic | Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. | Canada | 1965 | after | 2 | WHITE WITH CLEAR PLASTIC WINDOW | Physics | Atomic & nuclear | Models | Energy-electric | Generation | synthetic | 115 | 92.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1998.0181.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1998.0181.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||
| 107796 | 107796 | 2015.0125.001 | Panel mixed media | Wooden panel base with bees applied in a geometric design on its proper front surface covered with clear epoxy resin | Circle 1 | Hatton Sarah | Canada | Quebec | 2013 | 1 | The base is a round panel of light coloured wood on the proper back and finished in white around the outer edge. The proper front is largely covered in dark brown and yellow bees. The entire proper front including the bees are covered in a resin which is light yellow in colour. | ¬ìCircle 1¬î is a work of art by Canadian artist Sarah Hatton. She was born in Wolverhampton England in 1976 and earned a BA of Fine Art from Queen¬ís University in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary in 2001. Hatton describes her work as an exploration of ¬ìlonging transition mortality and human connections with nature.¬î She lives in Chelsea Quebec. Hatton is also a beekeeper and began producing ¬ìBee Works¬î after a frost killed all the bees in one of her colonies. Struck by this loss she made 10 circular artworks or ¬ìmandalas¬î as she describes them in 2013. These works are constructed of dead bees arranged in complex patterns and preserved in thick resin on wood panels. Hatton chose patterns found in nature including the Fibonacci sequence which mathematically describes the spiraling structures of pinecones sea shells and in the case of ¬ìCircle 1 ¬î sunflowers. The resulting works are striking: they produce optical illusions of movement and can induce vertigo a sensation that Hatton likens to the bees¬í inability to navigate after being exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides a particular context addressed by this series. Neonicotinoids are a class of pesticide first introduced in the 1990s. In the past 25 years they become one of the most widely used pesticides in the world. Neonicotinoids affect central-nervous-system functioning killing or paralyzed insects exposed to them. Neonicotinoids may be sprayed but the most popular application introduced in 2004 is as a seed coating. In North America neonicotinoid-coated seeds prevail in corn and soybean plantings the major crops of the continent¬ís central region. This widespread preventative use of neonicotinoids has become controversial. Neonicotinoid compounds are water soluble and environmentally persistent and environmental scientists have linked their ¬ìprophylactic¬î use to adverse impacts on pollinators birds earthworms and aquatic invertebrates. Preventative use of neonicotinoids has also drawn critique … | ¬ìCircle 1¬î functions through the medium of art as a reflection and commentary on the plight of bees and other pollinators in the context of colony collapse disorder pesticide use and other environmental risks. (From Acquisition Proposal see Ref. 1) | ¬ìCircle 1¬î may be defined as ¬ìconceptual art:¬î art made using materials and methods not traditionally deployed in painting sculpture or photography. Marcel Duchamp is credited with launching conceptual art when he attempted to display a urinal in a New York exhibition in 1917. (Godfrey 1988) Conceptual artists have since used found or ¬ìreadymades¬î in art: this approach is considered a critique of art and has also been identified with wider social and political critiques. Hatton¬ís choice of bees fits within this tradition: she also shares some affinities with artists such as Mark Dion who use dead animals (typically taxidermied animals from natural-history museum collections) to produce installations or dioramas. These works contemplate the nature of museums and collections and address concerns over biodiversity loss and environmental threats. (Dion 1997) In terms of materials Hatton used bees from her own hives and received donations of dead bees from beekeepers in Canada and elsewhere. To draw the underlying patterns on the wood panel surfaces Hatton used her father¬ís drafting set from his university engineering studies in the 1950s. (From Acquisition Proposal see Ref. 1) | Agriculture | Commemorative | Art | wood;animal;synthetic | 3.3 cm | 91.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0125.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0125.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 19994 | 19994 | 1977.0142.001 | Sculpture | wagon wheel | Unknown | Unknown | 2 | Agriculture | Commemorative | Art | 48.3 | 91.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1977.0142.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1977.0142.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 39117 | 39117 | 1985.0218.003 | 8 | 28 | 91.0 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 39576 | 39576 | 1985.0350.002 | 2 | 105 | 91.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1985.0350.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1985.0350.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 105170 | 105170 | 2012.0035.016 | Cable bundle | Synthetic cables with metal port connectors; synthetic and metal cable connectors; a synthetic and metal power cigarette connector and a synthetic mesh cover over multi coloured wires. | Trimble Navigation Lt. | United States of America | California | Sunnyvale | 2010 | circa | 21 | Synthetic cables with metal port connectors; synthetic and metal cable connectors; a synthetic and metal power cigarette connector and a synthetic mesh cover over multi coloured wires. | The Smiths used the two devices on their mixed field crop operation outside of Port Colborne Ontario where they grew mostly corn and soy beans for sale to livestock feed suppliers. They have farmed in the area for about the past fifty years. Specifically it was used on their John Deere 7800 series tractor and either their Tyler Patriot or Argo-Trend self-propelled sprayers. Mr. Smith also used the technology in his custom planting. | A bundle of different individual cables all interconnected through cable connectors; that power and connect the EZ-Guide 500 lightbar guidance system and the EZ-Steer controller and other peripherals. | Exploration and Survey | Measurement-position | Angle direction & distance | Agriculture | Power sources | Parts | metal;synthetic | 5 | 91.0 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0035.016.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0035.016.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||
| 56089 | 56089 | 1991.0008.002 | ENAMELLED IRON CUP | 5 | metal->iron;glass->enamel | 9.3 | 9.9 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 86105 | 86105 | 2001.0481.005 | Lamp housing | METAL GLASS & SYNTHETIC COMPOSITION. .5 & .6 PT BOXES: CARDBOARD. | A | Unknown | Unknown | 7 | metal->;glass->;synthetic->;paper->cardboard | 11.5 | 9.9 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2001.0481.005.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2001.0481.005.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 286 | 286 | 1966.0225.004 | Sphere sunshine recorder | glass | Casella | England | London | 1958 | after | 4 | slightly yellowed transparent | Meteorology | Sunshine intensity & duration measurement | Parts & accessories | glass | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1966.0225.004.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1966.0225.004.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8835 | 8835 | 1969.1604.066 | Gear | cast metal | Unknown | Unknown | 1966 | before | 93 | Cast metal (cast-iron ?) gear. | Victoria Foundry established in Ottawa c. 1850 by N.S. Blasdell. In 1873-4 the business was expanded and new buildings and equipment added. The 1900 fire which razed large areas of Ottawa destroyed the Foundry's property but it was quickly re-built and re-equipped at a site on LeBreton Flats where it operated until 1965. c. 1967 it merged with the foundry business of Thomas Lawson & Sons (est. in Ottawa c. 1885) and McMullen Perkins a machine shop operation (active in Ottawa since 1912). The new company Lawson-McMullen-Victoria Ltd. moved it's operations to Ottawa east. LMV is thought to have been active until c. 1972-73. (Ref. 1) In 1965 the National Capital Commission (NCC) expropriated the land in LeBreton Flats on which the Victoria Foundry (and it's soon-to-be partner T. Lawson & Sons) operated. Demolition of the foundry buildings began March 1 1966 and were completed May 5th. Mr. Don MacKenzie collected archival material patterns and other items from the site during demolition and made them available to CSTM. | Transmits power or motion when moved across surface of a complementary-shaped wheel or gear. | Industrial Technology | Industrial equipment | Moulding & casting | metal->cast-iron - possible | 4.2 | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1969.1604.066.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1969.1604.066.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||
| 58393 | 58393 | 1991.1006.001 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58394 | 58394 | 1991.1006.002 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58395 | 58395 | 1991.1006.003 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.003.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.003.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58396 | 58396 | 1991.1006.004 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.004.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.004.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58397 | 58397 | 1991.1006.005 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.005.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.005.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58398 | 58398 | 1991.1006.006 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.006.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.006.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58399 | 58399 | 1991.1006.007 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.007.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.007.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58400 | 58400 | 1991.1006.008 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.008.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.008.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 58401 | 58401 | 1991.1006.009 | Coaster | Bristol board. | TCA | Unknown | Canada | 1966 | before | 9 | Both sides: white TCA maple leaf logo on blue background with red lettering; white border with blue lettering. | Placed under beverage glasses to protect furniture from damage. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | paper->card stock | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.009.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1991.1006.009.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 89429 | 89429 | 2002.1004.003 | Cover colostomy | Silver metal cap. | Lewis Colostomy Apparatus | Hartz J.F. & Co. Ltd. | Canada | Ontario | Toronto | 1950 | 1969 | between | 7 | Silver metal cap. | Part of a large collection of medical artifacts archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum Toronto ON. | To cover and protect opening from intestine on to abdominal wall. | Medical Technology | Patient care & aids for the disabled | Personal equipment | metal | 3.6 | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.1004.003.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.1004.003.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||
| 91911 | 91911 | 2003.1111.001 | Film | Photographic film wound on white moulded synthetic reel. | C 105 Seat Ejection Tests- Wind Tunnel | Avro Aircraft Ltd. | Canada | Ontario | Malton | 1957 | 2 | Photographic film wound on white moulded synthetic reel. | Documents wind tunnel testing of C 105 seat ejection tests. | Documents wind tunnel testing of C 105 seat ejection tests conducted Dec. 11-18 1957. | Aviation | Archives | Aircraft | synthetic | 1.8 | 9.8 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2003.1111.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2003.1111.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 81909 | 81909 | 1999.0055.017 | Canister film | METAL CONTAINER | Unknown | Unknown | 17 | silver metal can | PART OF A COLLECTION OF CINE PHOTO EQ. USED BY MR. ROY TASH (1898-1988) CANADA'S BEST KNOWN NEWSREEL PHOTOGRAPHER. TASH BEGAN HIS CAREER IN 1915 IN CHICAGO; HE MOVED TO TORONTO IN 1919 AND WAS ACTIVE 1920S-1950S. HE WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS: THE CSC'S ROY TASH TROPHY IS AWARDED ANNUALLY TO THE BEST NEWS CAMERA PERSON IN CANADA. (REF.1) | TO CONTAIN AND PROTECT CINE FILM DURING TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE OR WHEN OTHERWISE NOT IN USE. | Photography | Cine images | Film | metal | 2.4 | 9.7 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 45805 | 45805 | 1987.1077.008 | 11 | 23.4 | 9.6 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 45806 | 45806 | 1987.1077.009 | 11 | 23.4 | 9.6 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 53810 | 53810 | 1990.0004.008 | Film | 8 | 4.3 | 9.6 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11362 | 11362 | 1971.0301.023 | Seismograph part | Brass | Unknown | Unknown | 25 | Physics | Geophysics | Seismology | metal->brass | 9 | 9.5 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 35929 | 35929 | 1984.0238.007 | METAL | 7 | metal | 77 | 3.3 cm | 9.5 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 55242 | 55242 | 1990.0385.001 | Sugar bowl & creamer set | SILVER | REGENCY PLATE | Birks | England | 1965 | 1971 | circa | 4 | POLISHED SILVER | THE SERVICE WAS SUPPLIED BY HENRY BIRKS & SONS FOR USE ON THE ONLY COMMERCIAL FLIGHT EVER TAKEN BY QUEEN ELIZABETH TO CANADA WHICH WAS BETWEEN MAY 3 AND 12 1971 TO MARK THE CENTENARY ANNIVERSARY OF B.C. INTO CONFEDERATION | Aviation | Services | Passenger | Domestic Technology | Food service | metal->silver | 6 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1990.0385.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1990.0385.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||
| 63387 | 63387 | 1992.2902.001 | Lamp bulb incandescent | Glass bulb/ metal base and parts/ tungsten filament/ ceramic parts | Edison Mazda | General Electric Co. | United States of America | 1940 | circa | 1 | White frosted glass/ gold coloured base/ black ceramic | An example of an American made lamp bulb used in Canada part of a large and varied collection of over 7500 electrical items acquired and documented by Ontario Hydro in the 1960s. The collection was thought to be the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in Canada and was donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 1992 | A device used to provide light by means of an electric current which heats up a tungsten filament inside the lamp bulb to incandescence. This type of lamp was used for general lighting. | This type of lamp was made in 1930. "Inside frosted lamps are said to contribute to the attractiveness of the interior by the elimination of striation-streaks of light on the ceiling and the chain and hanger shadows common to open indirect or semi-indirect lighting fixtures equipped with clear lamps." | Lighting Technology | Lamp bulbs | glass->;metal->;ceramic->;metal->tungsten | 20 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2902.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2902.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 63400 | 63400 | 1992.2914.001 | Lamp bulb incandescent | Glass bulb/ metal base and parts/ carbon filament/ ceramic parts | Sawyer-Man Electric Co. | United States of America | New york | New york | 1895 | circa | 1 | Colourless transparent glass/ gold coloured base/ metallic parts/ black ceramic | An example of an American made lamp bulb used in Canada part of a large and varied collection of over 7500 electrical items acquired and documented by Ontario Hydro in the 1960s. The collection was thought to be the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in Canada and was donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 1992 | A device used to provide light by means of an electric current which heats up a carbon filament inside the lamp bulb to incandescence. This type of lamp was used for series lighting. | An example of an early medium skirted screw lamp bulb base. | Lighting Technology | Lamp bulbs | glass->;metal->;ceramic->;synthetic->carbon | 18 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2914.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2914.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 72410 | 72410 | 1995.1297.004 | METAL GLASS/ CONTAINER: SYNTHETIC | HASSELBLAD | Sweden | Göteborg | 6 | BRUSHED METAL WITH SHINY METAL TRIM AND BLACK PRINTING BLACK LENS MOUNTING | USED TO RECORD STILL IMAGES. | HIGH QUALITY PRECISION CAMERA INCORPORATING SYNCHRO-COMPUR SHUTTER IN EACH OF ITSINTERCHANGABLE LENSES. FROM ITS INTRODUCTION IN 1957 IT "RAPIDLY BECAME A STANDARD TOOL FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS..." [REF 2] | Photography | Still cameras | Reflex | metal;glass;synthetic | 12 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1995.1297.004.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1995.1297.004.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 75094 | 75094 | 1996.0493.001 | Psychrometer | NON-FERROUS METAL | 129 | Negretti & Zambra | England | London | 2 | .1 PLATED/.2 BROWN STAINED & COATED WOOD/ WHITE SYNTHETIC | FROM COLLECTION OF FORESTRY & FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT USED BY & ACQUIRED FROM PNFI. FOUNDED IN 1918 IT WAS OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING FORESTRY-RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT IN CANADA UNTIL IT CLOSED IN 1995. PNFI STUDIED GROWTH OF VARIOUS SPECIES & FORESTMANAGEMENT PARTICULARLY FIRE PREVENTION & SUPPRESSION. | INSTRUMENT FOR DETERMINING ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY BY COMPARING DIFFERENT READINGS FROM TWO THERMOMETERS ONE WITH BULB KEPT WET & VENTILATED. | INVENTED BY ASSMAN IN 1890 THIS FORM OF PSYCHROMETER WOULD HAVE 2 THERMOMETERS ENCLOSED IN DOUBLE WALLED DUCT OF REFLECTIVE METAL WITH VENTILATION EFFECTED BY CLOCK OR ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN FAN. ASSMAN PSYCHROMETERS OF MUCH SAME FORM APPEAR IN RELATIVELY MODERN CATALOGUES ETC. | Meteorology | Atmospheric humidity measurement | Indicators | Forestry | Fire fighting | Prediction & prevention | metal | 36.5 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1996.0493.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1996.0493.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||
| 78411 | 78411 | 1997.0806.005 | Shield | LEAD | Intertech Inc. | United States of America | 1980 | before | 6 | GREEN WRINKLE-TEXTURED ENAMEL FINISH; | Physics | Atomic & nuclear | Measurement | metal->lead | 9.2 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1997.0806.005.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1997.0806.005.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 81613 | 81613 | 1998.1006.001 | Lid container | metal | Rawleigh's Medicated Ointment | RAWLEIGH W.T. CO. LTD. | Canada | Québec | Montréal | 2 | Pressed metal tin lid has dark blue and white background text & graphics; some bright silver decorative details. | Part of a collection of refrigeration parts and service items from Dr. G. Leslie Oliver. Dr. Oliver added to and documented a collection begun by his late father of household and automobile technology. Dr. Oliver's father T.H. Oliver established a refrigeration & electric service business in Aurora Ont. 1924 the first and oldest such organization in York Region. In 2000 the business was sold but continues to operate under the T.H. Oliver name. | To contain limited quantity of medicated ointment. | Tin may have been included in tool kit as "first aid" item or empty tin may have been used to hold small items such as washers etc.. | Medical Technology | Pharmacology | Storage containers | metal | 1.5 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1998.1006.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1998.1006.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 86553 | 86553 | 2002.0068.013 | Receptacle film | METAL | Unknown | Unknown | 1950 | 1965 | circa | 24 | Cylindrical container has silver metal fittings including internal notched wheel and partial liner. Black exterior & internal finishes on .13PT lid. | PART OF A LARGE COLLECTION OF MEDICAL ARTIFACTS ARCHIVAL MATERIAL & TRADE LITERATURE TRANSFERRED TO CSTM IN 2002 FROM THE FORMER HISTORY OF MEDICINE MUSEUM TORONTO ON. | USED TO PROCESS THE ELECTRICAL SIGNAL TRANSMITTED THROUGH TWO OR MORE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH ELECTRODES AND TO PRODUCE A VISUAL DISPLAY OF THE ELECTRICAL SIGNAL PRODUCED BY THE HEART. | Medical Technology | Medical equipment | Machines & apparatus | metal | 11.2 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.0068.013.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.0068.013.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 88642 | 88642 | 2002.0619.005 | Membrane sample dialysing | Opaque cellulose acetate casing material wound on unfinished cardboard roll. | Canada | Ontario | Toronto | 1946 | 5 | Opaque cellulose acetate casing material wound on unfinished cardboard roll. | First artificial kidney machine made in North America by Dr. Gordon Murray simultaneously and independently of Willem Kolff's invention in Holland in the 1940s. Designed and built by Murray himself it was used successfully on four patients at Toronto General Hospital 1946-47. Murray was a remarkable surgeon and innovator whose work earned him international recognition. In the 1930s Dr. Murray introduced the anticoagulant Heparin to world clinical practice; in the '40s he developed the first artificial kidney in North America; and in 1955 he performed the first successful transplant of a human heart valve. Unfortunately these achievements are often overshadowed by his later controversial work on an anti-cancer serum and on unconventional surgery for injuries caused by traumatic paraplegia. (Ref. 3] | To contain blood during circulation through dialysing bath and allow harmful waste to pass through into dialysate solution. | In the early version of his artificial kidney Murray used cellulose acetate sausage casing with a diameter of 1-inch in the dialysing membrane. The casing had first to be bathed in warm tap water. It was then wound around the wire mesh frame and held in position between small metal pegs. While effective in allowing some substances to pass through the membrane the ratio of volume to surface area was not practical. In later versions up to 150 feet of 1/4-inch tubing was used to transport the patient's blood through the diaylsing bath. [Ref. 6] This length of casing may have been intended for use as replacement material or it may be leftover from the cylinder's construction. Roschlau's design of the dialyzer used in the second artificial kidney machine utilized a parallel-plate arrangement: 30 layers of dialysis units each with two membranes and two dialysis compartments produced a flat-plate parallel-flow filter. [see 2002.0620.3] | Medical Technology | Medical equipment | Machines & apparatus | Medical Technology | Research | Equipment | paper->cardboard;synthetic | 2.6 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.0619.005.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.0619.005.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||
| 95789 | 95789 | 2004.1337.001 | Film | synthetic film in sealed metal can | Kodachrome K365 | Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd. | Canada | Ontario | Toronto | 1959 | before | 2 | can painted glossy black/ film unknown | The medium upon which moving images are recorded by a camera. | From Hisrory of Kodak web site : 1935 - KODACHROME Film was introduced and became the first commercially successful amateur color film. It was initially offered in 16 mm format for motion pictures; 35 mm slides and 8 mm home movies followed in 1936 (Ref. 1). | Photography | Cine images | Film | synthetic;metal | 2.2 cm | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2004.1337.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2004.1337.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||
| 98930 | 98930 | 2007.0126.001 | Coaster | Leather. | Unknown | Unknown | 1953 | 1989 | between | 1 | Dark blue lettering & image; light brown image on white background. | Promotional; novelty; placed on furniture to prevent condensation from beverage glass from marking surface. | Aviation | Commemorative | Memorabilia | Aviation | Services | Passenger | skin->leather | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2007.0126.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2007.0126.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 102684 | 102684 | 2010.0182.001 | Lamp gas | aliminum casing glass shade rubber seals | Permissible miners safety lamp/209 | Koehler Mfg. Co. | United States of America | Massachusetts | Marlboro | 1948 | circa | 1 | Unfinished aluminum balck rubber rings clear glass. | This lamp was used in the 1960's by Mr. Robert Hoegg in McBean mine in Thorburn Pictou County and was given to him on his departure from mining. It includes his identification tag | To provide lighting and test for presence of gases in an underground mine. | Koehler is an important manufacturer of safety lamps. the aluminium Koehler lamp was approved by the USBM as No. 209 on April 30 1948. The lamps were designed to provide light and also to test for presence of toxic gases. If flammable gases were present the light inside the lamp changed colour to a bluer tint. The lamps were not safe as soon as a part rusted loosened or cracked the lamps could actually ignite fire. They did not decrease the number of accidents. | Mining and Metallurgy | Personal gear | metal->aluminum;glass->;resin->rubber | 26 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0182.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0182.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||
| 103602 | 103602 | 2010.0676.001 | Thread | Thread paper and cardboard | Kingston 4 Cord Left Twist | American Thread Co. of Canada Ltd. | Unknown | 1880 | circa | 1 | Cream coloured paper sleeve with black and red print. Yellow thread is wound tightly around a heavy red cardboard core. Affixed inside the core are four white labels. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Thread used in leather-working. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | fibre->cotton;paper->cardboard | 11.3 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0676.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0676.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||
| 103603 | 103603 | 2010.0677.001 | Thread | Thread and paper | Kingston 15 Ozs. | American Thread Co. of Canada Ltd. | Unknown | 1880 | circa | 1 | Cream coloured paper sleeve with black and red print. Tightly wound black thread. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Thread used in leather-working. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | fibre->cotton;paper | 11.3 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0677.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0677.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||
| 103609 | 103609 | 2010.0683.001 | Thread | Thread and cardboard | Kingston 5 Cord; 1 Lb | American Thread Co. of Canada Ltd. | Unknown | 1880 | circa | 1 | Black thread tightly wound around a dark red cardboard core. There are three white labels with black and red print affixed inside the core. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Thread used in leather-working. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | fibre->cotton;paper->cardboard | 11.6 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0683.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0683.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||
| 104624 | 104624 | 2011.0002.010 | Theodolite part | Non-ferrous metal | Cooke T. & Sons Ltd. | England | London & york | 1910 | 19 | Metallic | Exploration and Survey | Measurement-angles | Miscellaneous | metal | 1.7 cm | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2011.0002.010.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2011.0002.010.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 106438 | 106438 | 2013.0140.003 | Sabot | All metal construction: bright silver metal tube has narrowed collar at open end. | Home Built | NRC Div. of Mechanical Engineering Engine Laboratory | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2006 | before | 6 | All metal construction: bright silver metal tube has narrowed collar at open end. | Canada’s first fully functional flight impact simulator. National Research Council of Canada has been using flight impact simulators [FIS] for almost half a century. Indeed few organisations on this Earth have been involved in bird strike testing longer than NRC. NRC has played a crucial role in making flying safer. It is very likely if not almost certain that the flight impact simulators located in Ottawa were the inspiration for the Chicken Cannon irregularly put to use on the CBC’s weekly television show Royal Canadian Air Farce. The Chicken Cannon made its appearance on Friday March 4th 1994. It was apparently last fired on Thursday December 18th or Friday December 19th 2008 at the taping of the show’s very popular New Year’s special. Throughout the years the Chicken Cannon was loaded and fired by one of the show’s most popular character Colonel “Teresa” Stacey played by Don Ferguson. As well as a sizeable number of rubber chickens the Chicken Cannon fired a bewildering variety of items primarily food at photos of individuals either Canadian or foreign who were deemed to be the most annoying at the time. Viewers proposed many targets. [Ref. 1] | Specific: Served as container for prepared "bird" ejected from 3.5 inch flight impact simulator. | Prepared bird body ejected from flight impact simulators must be housed in a sabot prior to testing. The sabot is smaller than the simulator's cannon bore diameter: sabot and it's contents must be held in a precise position during testing. | Aviation | Research | metal | 18.5 | 9.5 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2013.0140.003.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2013.0140.003.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||
| 35274 | 35274 | 1983.0548.004 | 5 | 18.3 | 2.1 | 9.4 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 35275 | 35275 | 1983.0548.005 | 5 | 18.3 | 2.1 | 9.4 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 44013 | 44013 | 1986.0928.012 | Gasket | metal | Unknown | Unknown | 1958 | circa | 13 | metallic | Exploration and Survey | Photogrammetry | Miscellaneous | metal | 9.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.012.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.012.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 63399 | 63399 | 1992.2913.001 | Lamp bulb incandescent | Glass bulb/ metal base and parts/ carbon filament/ ceramic parts/ fragment of paper label | Sunbeam Incandescent Lamp Co. | Canada | Ontario | Toronto | 1905 | circa | 1 | Colourless transparent glass/ gold coloured base/ metallic parts/ black ceramic | An example of an American made lamp bulb used in Canada part of a large and varied collection of over 7500 electrical items acquired and documented by Ontario Hydro in the 1960s. The collection was thought to be the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in Canada and was donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 1992 | A device used to provide light by means of an electric current which heats up a carbon filament inside the lamp bulb to incandescence. This is an early lamp used in series lighting. | The "GEM" lamp was introduced in 1904. The filament was given special treatment in an electric furnace which raised the efficiency of the GEM carbon lamp from 3.5 watt per candle to 2.5 watt per candle. In 1909 the filament was changed to a single loop filament. | Lighting Technology | Lamp bulbs | glass->;metal->;ceramic->;synthetic->carbon;paper | 19 | 9.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2913.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2913.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 86342 | 86342 | 2001.0607.001 | Film | Pressed metal reel has black finish; opaque brown synthetic film stock has brown film leader. | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan | Unknown | Unknown | 1939 | 1944 | circa | 2 | Pressed metal reel has black finish; opaque brown synthetic film stock has brown film leader. | Aviation | Archives | Military | metal;synthetic | 2.2 | 9.4 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 86343 | 86343 | 2001.0607.002 | Film | Pressed metal reel has black finish; opaque brown synthetic film stock has brown film leader. | British Commonwealth Air Training Plan | Unknown | Unknown | 1939 | 1944 | circa | 2 | Pressed metal reel has black finish; opaque brown synthetic film stock has brown film leader. | Aviation | Archives | Military | metal;synthetic | 2.2 | 9.4 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 101471 | 101471 | 2008.1637.002 | Oiler | Metal oiler can | Gem Mfg. Co. | United States of America | Pennsylvania | Pittsburgh | 1932 | circa | 3 | Grey coloured metal can with some brown discolouration in areas. | (Taken directly from the Acquisition Proposal. Context is for whole collection) This small shoe repair store was operated by Harry Samatas between 1932 and 1999 at 908 Queen St. in Toronto Ont. Irakli (Harry) Naum Samatas (anglicized from Shamata) was born in Sinice Albania on January 17 1912. He received his high school education in Greece where he also first learned to make shoes. He moved to Canada when he was 14. Mr. Samatas came to the country with his much older brother and cousins. Irakli started fixing shoes out of necessity in Canada but was always very proud of the fact that he could actually make shoes. His wanted to establish a shoe making business but it was very difficult for an immigrant to gather the means to start this kind of manufacturing company in Canada where most of the shoemaking was done on a mass-production scale. Instead of a manufacturing company Mr. Samatas opened his shoe repair store in 1932 when he was only 20 years old. In 1939 Mr. Samatas travelled to Europe to be married; he and his wife Sofia came back to Canada on board of the Conte di Savoia on the ship¬ís last voyage from Italy before the WWII. Sofia Samatas never worked in the store or outside the home. Still she spent time in the shoe store chatting with customers and keeping her husband company whenever she could. Mr. Samatas passed away on September 25 1999 shortly after their 60th wedding anniversary. At the time of his death he was a grandfather of six and a great-grandfather of two. Mr. Samatas kept the store open until his death. He didn't care if he had any customers - as long as the "old people" had a place to come and sit down for a chat he was happy! The story of this shoe repair business carries interesting social history: it was a ¬ëreplacement¬í career - a small business that was less expensive to establish for an immigrant than a manufacturing company; the store was also a good example of a small local business that provided personal service to the local clientele and became a centre for a s… | A container with a spout used to apply oil to machinery for lubrication. | (Taken directly from the Acquisition Proposal. Context is for whole collection) There is very little written on shoe manufacturing and even less on shoe repairing: ¬ìThe footwear industry is one of the oldest in Canada. The name of the first person in Canada to cobble a pair of shoes has not been recorded but Fran√ßois Byssot of Pointe-L√©vy Qu√©bec built the first tannery in 1668. Byssot was assisted by Jean TALON who advanced the sum of 3268 livres from the royal coffers. The Compagnie des Indes occidentales contributed another 1500 livres. The first Canadian census (1666) revealed that 20 shoemakers served a population of 3215 inhabitants. The industry was required not only to look after the needs of the colony but also to equip a regiment of soldiers. Like cobblers all over the world Canadian shoemakers used an awl a curved knife a needle and a wooden last. They set up shop in their own homes employing 4 or 5 workers. Toward the middle of the 19th century the introduction of machinery revolutionized the production of footwear. The sewing machine was adapted for stitching footwear components. Other devices were developed for cutting cementing nailing and vulcanizing parts of the shoe. Eventually what had been a cottage craft became a sophisticated highly mechanized factory industry. The 1871 census reported 4191 footwear-manufacturing establishments in Canada. Most were small shops which also did shoe repairs. With the advent of mechanized shoemaking equipment many of these small manufacturers were forced out of business by the high capital cost of machinery and plant construction.¬î (From the Canadian Encyclopeadia) The entire small trade/cottage industry in Canada has been in decline since 1931. Even though the shoe repairing business belonged to the strongest sector within the industry (together with other ¬ërepair¬í industries such as car repair dressmaking upholstery etc.) it also declined from constituting 74% of cottage industries in 1931 to 58% in 1941. The trade rate was steady until… | Industrial Technology | Tool maintenance | Lubrication | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Shoemaker | metal | 20 | 9.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2008.1637.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2008.1637.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||
| 102799 | 102799 | 2010.0220.002 | Container | Round silver metal container has wrinkle-textured finish; white adhesive-backed tape used to label and seal 2-piece container. | Eastman 7291 | Eastman Kodak Co. | United States of America | New york | Rochester | 2 | Round silver metal container has wrinkle-textured finish; white adhesive-backed tape used to label and seal 2-piece container. | Owned and used by Canadian film maker Bill Mason who achieved international recognition for his wilderness and canoeing documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s. | To contain protect and identify contents when not in use. | The Bill Mason collection consists of typical cameras and other equipment in the 16mm format widely used by documentary film makers in Canada in this period. | Photography | Cine images | Film | metal | 2.6 | 9.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0220.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0220.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 103950 | 103950 | 2010.0801.001 | Dubbin waterproof | Metal tin. | Brown | Swift Polish Mfg. Co. | England | Hounslow | 1900 | 1950 | circa | Registered trade mark | 3 | Lid painted a teal dark blue cream and black colour. Tin is caked with rust dirt and seeping dubbin. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Used to soften condition and waterproof leather. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | metal | 3 | 9.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0801.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0801.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||
| 103951 | 103951 | 2010.0801.002 | Dubbin waterproof | Metal tin. | Brown | Swift Polish Mfg. Co. | England | Hounslow | 1900 | 1950 | circa | Registered trade mark | 3 | Lid painted a teal dark blue cream and black colour. Tin is caked with rust dirt and seeping dubbin. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Used to soften condition and waterproof leather. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | metal | 3 | 9.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0801.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0801.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||
| 103952 | 103952 | 2010.0801.003 | Dubbin waterproof | Metal tin. | Brown | Swift Polish Mfg. Co. | England | Hounslow | 1900 | 1950 | circa | Registered trade mark | 3 | Lid painted a teal dark blue cream and black colour. Tin is caked with rust dirt and seeping dubbin. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Used to soften condition and waterproof leather. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | metal | 3 | 9.4 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0801.003.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0801.003.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||
| 30249 | 30249 | 1981.0641.008 | Tile drainage | CLAY | Unknown | Unknown | 12 | CYLINDRICAL WITH 1 FLAT SIDE/ CREAM/ BROKEN | USED TO CONSTRUCT SYSTEM OF UNDERGROUND DRAINS FOR DRAINING OF FIELDS | ROUND WELL BURNED CLAY DRAIN TILE IS MORE GENERALLY ADAPTED TO UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE THAN ANY OTHER TYPE EXCEPT THE CEMENT TILE (REF.1). THESE ARE PROBABLY OF THE COMMON CLAY TYPE MADE OF COMMON CLAYS WHICH DO NOT VITRIFY & PRODUCE A RED OR CREAM COLOURED STONEWARE. | Agriculture | Land improvement | Drainage | ceramic->pottery | 33 | 8 | 9.3 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 44003 | 44003 | 1986.0928.002 | Lens | metal with glass optical elements | Gordon Enterprises | United States of America | 1958 | circa | 13 | painted black | A component of camera which bends light rays to create an image which is imprinted on film in a camera. | Photography | Still camera parts | Optics | metal;glass | 10.3 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||
| 44010 | 44010 | 1986.0928.009 | Film | metal reel/ synthetic film | 10 | Eastman Kodak Co. | United States of America | 1958 | circa | 13 | black painted reel | Medium upon which photographic images are recorded used in phototheodolite. | metal;synthetic | 3.7 cm | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.009.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.009.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 62850 | 62850 | 1992.2494.001 | Switch | porcelain base & switch handle/ brass shell/ metal parts | Diamond H | United States of America | 1904 | 1915 | between | 1 | partially glazed white porcelain/ glazed white handle switch/ nickel plated shell | An American made switch of a type used in Canada. Part of a large & varied collection of over 7500 electrical items acquired & documented by Ontario Hydro in the 1960s. The collection was thought to be the largest & most comprehensive of its kind in Canada & was donated to the National Museum of Science & Technology in 1992. | An electrical wiring device used to make or break a connection in an electrical circuit specifically to regulate in a heating device | Rotary switches turn in one direction giving on-off-on-off alternately (Ref. 3). Diamond H previously named the Hart Mfg. Co. was a company formed by American Waldo Hart in 1890. The first push-button switch made by Hart & Co. appeared in 1899. By 1915 Diamond had become part of Hart & Hegeman. (Ref. 1) | Energy-electric | User site | ceramic->porcelain - possible | 7.8 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2494.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1992.2494.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 72409 | 72409 | 1995.1297.003 | METAL GLASS/ CONTAINER: SYNTHETIC | HASSELBLAD | Sweden | Göteborg | 6 | BRUSHED METAL WITH SHINY METAL TRIM AND BLACK PRINTING BLACK LENS MOUNTING | USED TO RECORD STILL IMAGES. | HIGH QUALITY PRECISION CAMERA INCORPORATING SYNCHRO-COMPUR SHUTTER IN EACH OF ITSINTERCHANGABLE LENSES. FROM ITS INTRODUCTION IN 1957 IT "RAPIDLY BECAME A STANDARD TOOL FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS..." [REF 2] | Photography | Still cameras | Reflex | metal;glass;synthetic | 12 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1995.1297.003.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1995.1297.003.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 89926 | 89926 | 2003.0062.011 | METAL WIRE CARDBOARD & PAPER | 21 | SPECIMEN FROM CANADIAN COLLECTION OF INTERNATIONAL KITES. | EMERGENCY RADIO TRANSMITTER & ACCESSORIES CARRIED IN MILITARY AIRCRAFT DESIGNED FOR OPERATION FROM LIFE RAFT AFTER BEING DROPPED BY PARACHUTE FROM AIRCRAFT. KIT INCLUDES KITE WITH METAL LINE THAT SERVED AS ANTENNA AS WELL AS BALLOON & HYDROGEN TANKS FOR USE WHEN WIND WAS LIGHT. | EXAMPLE OF WWII MILITARY KITE IN FORM OF BOX KITE WITH METAL FRAME WHICH COULD BE FOLDED INTO COMPACT BUNDLE FOR INCLUSION IN AIRCRAFT EMERGENCY KIT AS PART OF EMERGENCY BEACON SYSTEM. 1942 AMERICAN APPARATUS WAS BASED ON 1941 GERMAN EQUIPMENT WHICH ALSO INCLUDED KITE & BALLOONS. | Communications | Radio | Receivers & transmitters | Aviation | Communications | metal->;paper->cardboard;paper | 4 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2003.0062.011.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2003.0062.011.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 91913 | 91913 | 2003.1112.001 | Film | photographic film wound on synthetic reel. | Sparrow II Firing 2 Missiles | Avro Aircraft Ltd. | Canada | Ontario | Malton | 1956 | 1957 | 2 | Photographic film wound on grey moulded synthetic reel. | Documents testing of Sparrow II firing 2 missiles. | Documents testing of Sparrow II firing 2 missiles and features action cut from G 63 -64 - 65. | Aviation | Archives | Aircraft | synthetic | 2.2 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2003.1112.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2003.1112.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||
| 92072 | 92072 | 2004.0082.001 | Print butter | Natural wood. | Unknown | Unknown | 1 | Natural wood. | Used to imprint a decorative pattern on soft butter. | Agriculture | Dairying | Miscellaneous | Domestic Technology | Food service | wood | 14 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2004.0082.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2004.0082.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||||
| 103947 | 103947 | 2010.0800.001 | Dubbin waterproof | Metal tin. | Swift Polish Mfg. Co. | England | Hounslow | 1900 | 1950 | circa | Registered trade mark | 3 | Brass coloured tin. Lid is painted red green and black. Tin is caked with rust dirt and seeping dubbin. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Used to soften condition and waterproof leather. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | metal | 2.3 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0800.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0800.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||
| 103949 | 103949 | 2010.0800.003 | Dubbin waterproof | Metal tin. | Swift Polish Mfg. Co. | England | Hounslow | 1900 | 1950 | circa | Registered trade mark | 3 | Brass coloured tin. Lid is painted red green and black. Tin is caked with rust dirt and seeping dubbin. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Used to soften condition and waterproof leather. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | metal | 2.3 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0800.003.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0800.003.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||
| 105272 | 105272 | 2012.0081.002 | Lid can | metal | Dominion & Grimm | Crown | Unknown | 2012 | circa | 2 | Polished metal thin coat of sealant? around the interior rim. | Type de contenant conçu pour la conservation du sirop d’érable. Son design graphique est inspiré d’une illustration chez Dominion & Grimm et date des années 1960. Sur l’évaporateur on peut lire le nom Dominion & Grimm. Plusieurs producteurs de sirop d’érable au Canada achètent ce contenant chez Dominion & Grimm pour conserver et vendre leur sirop. Ce contenant est très populaire encore. | Container used by the coop acting as retailer to market maple syrup. | Dominion & Grimm une compagnie canadienne fabrique ce contenant avec le même graphique depuis au moins 1970. La compagnie envisage de continuer sa production car il est encore très populaire. | Agriculture | Cottage industries | Maple syrup | Agriculture | Merchandising | Packaging | metal | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0081.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0081.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||
| 105274 | 105274 | 2012.0082.002 | Lid can | metal | Coop Fédérée de Trois-Rivières | Unknown | Unknown | 2012 | circa | 2 | Polished metal thin coat of sealant? around the interior rim. | Type of container manufactured and used to preserve food in Canada. Model used by the Coop Fédérée de Trois-Rivières to sell maple Syrop. This is the largest agro-food business in Québec. | Container used by the coop acting as retailer to market maple syrup. | Agriculture | Cottage industries | Maple syrup | Agriculture | Merchandising | Packaging | metal | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0082.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2012.0082.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||
| 106686 | 106686 | 2014.0040.001 | Inhaler | Metal | Clover | Down Bros. | England | London | 1900 | circa | 1 | Bright silver-coloured metal | Part of a collection of medical technologies donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation by the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society. This object was on display as part ‘An Exhibit on Inhalers and Vaporizers 1847-1968’ at CAS’s Annual Meeting in Ottawa in 2003. | Used for the administration of ether by inhalation for anaesthesia. | “Dr. Joseph Clover (1825-1882) an English physician first described his Portable Regulating Ether Inhaler on Jan. 20 1877. Clover was an especially sought after anesthesiologist and early pioneer in the specialty. This was the best-known of many inhalers that Clover designed. The dome-shaped reservoir was turned to points on a control dial to gradually increase or decrease the percentage of the air that passed over the ether. Several inventors based new inhalers on this while the original continued to be manufactured as late as the beginning of the Second World War.” (ref.3) “In Clover’s Inhaler ether was placed in the chamber which could be warmed by water and by hand. His first inhaler included one “whistle-tip” tube inside another; when the indicator was at “Full” all the respired air passed into the ether chamber and when the tips were in alignment the patient breathed only air. In a later model a single tube fitted with ports and a baffle passed through the center of the chamber allowing air to pass through with rotation of the tube. Clover claimed advantages in the absence of valves ability to supply ether gradually and rapid onset of anesthesia.” (red.2) | Medical Technology | Instruments | Surgical | Medical Technology | Chemicals & medications | Anaesthesia | metal | 10.4 | 9.3 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2014.0040.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2014.0040.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||
| 8795 | 8795 | 1969.1604.026 | Finial | cast metal (cast iron ?) | Unknown | Unknown | 1966 | before | 93 | Natural cast metal finish obscured by rust. | Victoria Foundry established in Ottawa c. 1850 by N.S. Blasdell. In 1873-4 the business was expanded and new buildings and equipment added. The 1900 fire which razed large areas of Ottawa destroyed the Foundry's property but it was quickly re-built and re-equipped at a site on LeBreton Flats where it operated until 1965. c. 1967 it merged with the foundry business of Thomas Lawson & Sons (est. in Ottawa c. 1885) and McMullen Perkins a machine shop operation (active in Ottawa since 1912). The new company Lawson-McMullen-Victoria Ltd. moved it's operations to Ottawa east. LMV is thought to have been active until c. 1972-73. (Ref. 1) In 1965 the National Capital Commission (NCC) expropriated the land in LeBreton Flats on which the Victoria Foundry (and it's soon-to-be partner T. Lawson & Sons) operated. Demolition of the foundry buildings began March 1 1966 and were completed May 5th. Mr. Don MacKenzie collected archival material patterns and other items from the site during demolition and made them available to CSTM. | 3-dimensional example of complete item or standardized product regularly produced. Specifically a finial. | Probably designed for use on a gate or fence post. | Industrial Technology | Industrial equipment | Moulding & casting | metal->cast-iron - possible | 11 | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1969.1604.026.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1969.1604.026.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 44011 | 44011 | 1986.0928.010 | Reel film | metal | Eastman Kodak Co. | United States of America | 1958 | circa | 13 | painted black | Circular frame upon which film is wound for insertion into a camera. | metal | 3.7 cm | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.010.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.010.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 44012 | 44012 | 1986.0928.011 | Reel film | metal | Eastman Kodak Co. | United States of America | 1958 | circa | 13 | painted black | Circular frame upon which film is wound for insertion into a camera. | metal | 3.7 cm | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.011.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1986.0928.011.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 64197 | 64197 | 1993.0259.004 | Weight balance | CAST IRON | OHAUS | United States of America | New jersey | Newark | 8 | USED BY THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL'S HYDRODYNAMIC LAB (SHIP LAB) AS A RESEARCH TOOL | USED TO MEASURE WEIGHT. THIS ONE WAS USED BY THE NRC HYDRODYNAMICS LABORATORY TO MEASURE THE RESISTANCE OF A SHIP MODEL AS IT WAS TOWED IN A TANK. | DEMONSTRATES A STANDARD COMMERCIAL SCALE MODIFIED FOR ASPECIAL PURPOSE. | Metrology | Mass/weight | metal->cast-iron | 1.5 | 9.2 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 64198 | 64198 | 1993.0259.005 | Weight balance | CAST IRON | OHAUS | United States of America | New jersey | Newark | 8 | USED BY THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL'S HYDRODYNAMIC LAB (SHIP LAB) AS A RESEARCH TOOL | USED TO MEASURE WEIGHT. THIS ONE WAS USED BY THE NRC HYDRODYNAMICS LABORATORY TO MEASURE THE RESISTANCE OF A SHIP MODEL AS IT WAS TOWED IN A TANK. | DEMONSTRATES A STANDARD COMMERCIAL SCALE MODIFIED FOR ASPECIAL PURPOSE. | Metrology | Mass/weight | metal->cast-iron | 1.5 | 9.2 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 76665 | 76665 | 1997.0163.025 | Tweezers | BRASS WEIGHTS AND FORCEPS | OERTLING L. | England | London | 1912 | 25 | THESE WEIGHTS WERE DERIVED FROM THE DOMINION PRIMARY STANDARDS AND WERE DESIGNATED SECONDARY OR DEPARTMENTAL STANDARDS AS PER THE "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT" OF 1872. THIS ACT MADE IMPERIAL MEASURES CANADA'S ONLY LEGAL STANDARD. | USED TO BALANCE QUANTITIES ON A SCALE TO DETERMINE THE MASS OF THE ITEM BEING WEIGHED. THIS SET WAS ONE OF THE STANDARDS USED BY GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS TO VERIFY COMMERCIAL WEIGHTS IN CANADA. | THE TROY POUND WAS ABOLISHED IN BRITAIN IN 1878 BUT THE TROY OUNCE CONTINUED TO BE USED FOR THE WEIGHING OF PRECIOUS METALS OR STONES. THIS WAS ALSO ADOPTED BY CANADA. | Metrology | Mass/weight | metal->brass | 1 | 1.1 | 9.2 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 81555 | 81555 | 1998.0982.001 | Bottle oil | glass | Frigidaire | General Motors Corp. Frigidaire Div. | United States of America | Ohio | Dayton | 1950 | 1969 | circa | 2 | Clear glass bottle has painted markings. | Part of a collection of refrigeration parts and service items from Dr. G. Leslie Oliver. Dr. Oliver added to and documented a collection begun by his late father of household and automobile technology. Dr. Oliver's father T.H. Oliver established a refrigeration & electric service business in Aurora Ont. 1924 the first and oldest such organization in York Region. In 2000 the business was sold but continues to operate under the T.H. Oliver name. | To contain identify and protect contents when not in use. Originally contained lubricating oil for use in refrigerating devices. | Industrial Technology | Miscellaneous | Packaging | Domestic Technology | Food processing | Food storage | glass | 21.5 | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1998.0982.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1998.0982.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||
| 86552 | 86552 | 2002.0068.012 | Spool film | METAL | ILFORD LTD. | England | 1950 | 1965 | circa | 24 | Flat black metal spool. | PART OF A LARGE COLLECTION OF MEDICAL ARTIFACTS ARCHIVAL MATERIAL & TRADE LITERATURE TRANSFERRED TO CSTM IN 2002 FROM THE FORMER HISTORY OF MEDICINE MUSEUM TORONTO ON. | USED TO PROCESS THE ELECTRICAL SIGNAL TRANSMITTED THROUGH TWO OR MORE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH ELECTRODES AND TO PRODUCE A VISUAL DISPLAY OF THE ELECTRICAL SIGNAL PRODUCED BY THE HEART. | Medical Technology | Medical equipment | Machines & apparatus | metal | 3.7 | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.0068.012.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2002.0068.012.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 103913 | 103913 | 2010.0778.001 | Dubbin waterproof | Metal tin. | Salvator | Beaver Products Co. Ltd. | Canada | 1900 | 1950 | between | 2 | Yellowish-cream coloured background with black print. Both painted on lid. Tin has a top and a bottom and opens by a pivoting tab. Both halves are fused together. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Used to soften condition and waterproof leather. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | metal | 2.4 | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0778.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0778.001.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||
| 103914 | 103914 | 2010.0778.002 | Dubbin waterproof | Metal tin. | Salvator | Beaver Products Co. Ltd. | Canada | 1900 | 1950 | between | 2 | Yellowish-cream coloured background with black print. Both painted on lid. Tin has a top and a bottom and opens by a pivoting tab. Both halves are fused together. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: Through the Bithell story we see the cohesiveness of Montreal¬ís English-speaking enclaves at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Bithell¬ís first store was located on Beaver Hall Hill at the outer edge of the ¬ìSquare Mile ¬î the home of Montreal¬ís Anglophone elite who headed many of Canada¬ís major businesses and institutions. His clientele most likely included many of the area¬ís residents who as Margaret Westley notes preferred to ¬ìshop at stores owned and operated by fellow Scots and Englishmen¬î and who¬ís favourite past time included horse riding horse driving polo and frequenting the Montreal Hunt Club. The relocation of their various businesses across the city also reflected this cohesion as they tended to set up their shops in or in close proximity to these Anglophone enclaves. The story tells us about Montreal at a time when it was the industrial and commercial centre of Canada and from the perspective of skilled tradesmen who worked in what was quickly becoming a dying trade. The adoption of the automobile redefined personal transportation as its increasing popularity began reducing the need for horses and buggies and consequently the need for saddle and harness makers. In this way the Bithells were part of an important aspect of Canada¬ís economical social and cultural history. | Used to soften condition and waterproof leather. | Taken from acquisition proposal Reference 1: In the 1850s many industries started to transition from craft production to small-scale manufacturing to mechanized industry which saw the use of heavy costly machinery rather than smaller hand tools. At this time Montreal¬ís leather industry was starting to grow exponentially and by the 1890s the Montreal market for leather goods was considered one of the largest in Canada dominated largely by shoe production. At this time the leather industry consisted of different modes of production that co-existed. The most predominant were artisanal production ¬ìputting-out¬î where men and women did stitching work from home and factory production. Leather production in artisanal shops such as those in Montreal¬ís tanning district of Saint Henri started to give way to ¬ìputting out¬î by the 1850s. In the shoe industry both ¬ìputting out¬î and artisanal shoemaking were in decline by the 1870s replaced by factory or mechanized production. Montreal had dominated Canadian saddle production in particular with an estimated 23 mostly small and artisanal saddle manufacturers in 1871. The situation changed very little in 1881 as the industry was described as being ¬ìstocked with workman.¬î Gregory Kealey notes that harness and saddle making were less affected by mechanization than other trades such as shoemaking which could explain the relative success of the trade at this time. Saddlery and harness making were also considered prestigious trades compared to other forms of leather work because of the time required to learn and master the trade. By the 1920s Montreal had begun to loose its status as a preeminent manufacturing centre in Quebec and Canada. Saddle making also began to die off and most of what was left of the industry was centred in Ontario. Nonetheless by the end of the Second World War the leather industry along with food clothing textile wood and tobacco made up 54.2 per cent of Quebec¬ís industrial labour force and 48.6 percent of the total value of ind… | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Harness & saddle maker | Industrial Technology | Tools & equipment-trades | Leather worker | metal | 2.4 | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0778.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0778.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||
| 106304 | 106304 | 2013.0097.011 | Tape adhesive | Tape is made from a polyimide film with a silicone adhesive. ABS tube. | Kapton | Unknown | Unknown | 2012 | 22 | Brassy coloured tape mounted on a white ABS tube. | Three dimensional (3D) printers are increasingly used for rapid prototyping and short production runs. | Polyimide film with silicone adhesive used on MakerBot platform. Resistant to high temperature. | Three dimensional printers make objects through additive processes whereby successive layers of material are laid down to produce the desired shape. This distinguishes them from devices that employ subtractive processes where material is removed to essentially sculpt the finished product. In conventional manufacturing subtractive processes are commonly associated with machine tools many of which operate automatically from physical templates or digital instructions. Digitally controlled additive manufacturing may be said to have originated with the Jacquard loom in which punched cards control the arrangement of threads into the final pattern. Moulding machines are a common example of an additive device that uses an analogue model (the pattern and mould) to control the fabrication process. In 3D printing the model is a digital ¬ìblueprint¬î produced using computer aided design (CAD) or animation modelling software. Three dimensional printers were first developed in the late 1970s. A number of techniques have been employed including extrusion deposition granular materials binding (laser sintering) and photopolymerization (stereolithography). Before the turn of the century devices were large expensive and lacking in versatility. Their use was largely confined to industry. In 1995 MIT graduate students Jim Bredt and Tim Anderson modified an inkjet printer to extrude a binding solution onto a bed of polymer powder coining the term ¬ì3D printing¬î and winning a patent on their design. In 2005-2006 two open-source projects associated with universities were established that stimulated the spread of low-cost 3D printing into the do-it-yourself or ¬ìmaker ¬î market. Established at Cornell University Fab@Home released its first device using a multi-syringe deposition system in 2006. The RepRap Project founded by Adrian Bowyer at the University of Bath in 2005 aimed to produce a device that could ¬ìprint¬î most of its own components. One of the individuals involved with the RepRap project was Sebastien Bailard… | Computing Technology | Digital peripheral devices | Output devices | synthetic | 12 | 9.2 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2013.0097.011.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2013.0097.011.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 8852 | 8852 | 1969.1604.083 | Pattern casting | cast metal (alloy) | Unknown | Unknown | 1966 | before | 93 | Silver metal form has rough textured darkened finish. Form is bell-shaped tapering upwards to raised circular squared-off post. | Victoria Foundry established in Ottawa c. 1850 by N.S. Blasdell. In 1873-4 the business was expanded and new buildings and equipment added. The 1900 fire which razed large areas of Ottawa destroyed the Foundry's property but it was quickly re-built and re-equipped at a site on LeBreton Flats where it operated until 1965. c. 1967 it merged with the foundry business of Thomas Lawson & Sons (est. in Ottawa c. 1885) and McMullen Perkins a machine shop operation (active in Ottawa since 1912). The new company Lawson-McMullen-Victoria Ltd. moved it's operations to Ottawa east. LMV is thought to have been active until c. 1972-73. (Ref. 1) In 1965 the National Capital Commission (NCC) expropriated the land in LeBreton Flats on which the Victoria Foundry (and it's soon-to-be partner T. Lawson & Sons) operated. Demolition of the foundry buildings began March 1 1966 and were completed May 5th. Mr. Don MacKenzie collected archival material patterns and other items from the site during demolition and made them available to CSTM. | To produce mold of desired size and shape to be used in casting. | Hook or threaded rod inserted in hole used to remove pattern without disturbing sand. | Industrial Technology | Industrial equipment | Moulding & casting | metal->white metal | 6.2 | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1969.1604.083.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1969.1604.083.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 28887 | 28887 | 1980.0922.002 | Box | Off-white heavy paper box bears blue and off-white graphics and text. Stored inside round clear glass jar with black synthetic lid: supplied by CSTMC Conservation staff. Deposits on box are likely a phosphoric acid. | Tenacin | Caulk L.D. Co. | Canada | Ontario | Toronto | 2 | Off-white heavy paper box bears blue and off-white graphics and text. Stored inside round clear glass jar with black synthetic lid: supplied by CSTMC Conservation staff. Deposits on box are likely a phosphoric acid. | Used to identify and protect contents when not in use. | Part of a collection of chemicals and equipment used in the manufacture of dental fillings moulds bridgework and inlays. | Medical Technology | Dentistry | Chemicals | paper | 10.1 | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1980.0922.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1980.0922.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | |||||||||||||||||
| 35270 | 35270 | 1983.0547.002 | FERROUS METAL | 2 | metal | 17 | 1 | 9.1 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 102741 | 102741 | 2010.0204.002 | Reel film | metal [probably aluminum] | R-90 | Eastman Kodak Co. | United States of America | New york | Rochester | 1945 | circa | 3 | All metal reel [probably aluminum] has flat black finish. | Owned and used by Canadian film maker Bill Mason who achieved international recognition for his wilderness and canoeing documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s. | Circular frame upon which film is wound for insertion into a camera. | The Bill Mason collection consists of typical cameras and other equipment in the 16 mm format widely used by documentary film makers in Canada in this period. Introduced in 1933 the Ciné-Kodak Special was initially intended for advanced amateurs but it quickly became popular among professionals who made films for non-cinematic audiences. Among its advanced features were a reflex viewfinder for framing and focusing (not operable when filming) an adjustable rotary shutter to execute fades an eight-frame film crank to facilitate multiple exposures and dissolves and a single-frame film advance for animation and time-lapse photography. The camera also came with a set of masks that could be inserted between the lens and the film plane to produce simple special effects like split screen and vignetting. The Ciné Special was equipped with 100-foot film magazines that could be changed at any time and its two-lens turret allowed easy changes in focal length for different shots. The main criticisms of the Ciné Special were potential shifting in the frame line after switching from one magazine to another and inconsistency in the film plane when operating at high speeds. For all its versatility the Ciné Special was also rugged and reliable. Although its spring motor could run barely one minute on a single winding it was not dependent on batteries and the absence of electrical parts was an asset when working around and on the water. The Ciné Special was used extensively during World War II for training films and combat cinematography. In 1948 Eastman Kodak discontinued production of the Ciné Special and introduced the similarly designed Ciné-Kodak Special II (1948-1961). As is evident from the career of Bill Mason however second-hand Ciné Specials remained in widespread use for decades. Kodak’s Ektar cine lenses were excellent and Mason used them extensively even on his non-Kodak cameras where a special C-mount adaptor was required. [Ref. 1] | Photography | Cine cameras | 16mm | metal->aluminum - possible | 2.2 | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0204.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0204.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||
| 102744 | 102744 | 2010.0205.002 | Reel film | metal [probably aluminum] | R-90 | Eastman Kodak Co. | United States of America | New york | Rochester | 1945 | circa | 2 | All metal reel [probably aluminum] has flat black finish. | Owned and used by Canadian film maker Bill Mason who achieved international recognition for his wilderness and canoeing documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s. | Circular frame upon which film is wound for insertion into a camera. | The Bill Mason collection consists of typical cameras and other equipment in the 16 mm format widely used by documentary film makers in Canada in this period. Introduced in 1933 the Ciné-Kodak Special was initially intended for advanced amateurs but it quickly became popular among professionals who made films for non-cinematic audiences. Among its advanced features were a reflex viewfinder for framing and focusing (not operable when filming) an adjustable rotary shutter to execute fades an eight-frame film crank to facilitate multiple exposures and dissolves and a single-frame film advance for animation and time-lapse photography. The camera also came with a set of masks that could be inserted between the lens and the film plane to produce simple special effects like split screen and vignetting. The Ciné Special was equipped with 100-foot film magazines that could be changed at any time and its two-lens turret allowed easy changes in focal length for different shots. The main criticisms of the Ciné Special were potential shifting in the frame line after switching from one magazine to another and inconsistency in the film plane when operating at high speeds. For all its versatility the Ciné Special was also rugged and reliable. Although its spring motor could run barely one minute on a single winding it was not dependent on batteries and the absence of electrical parts was an asset when working around and on the water. The Ciné Special was used extensively during World War II for training films and combat cinematography. In 1948 Eastman Kodak discontinued production of the Ciné Special and introduced the similarly designed Ciné-Kodak Special II (1948-1961). As is evident from the career of Bill Mason however second-hand Ciné Specials remained in widespread use for decades. Kodak’s Ektar cine lenses were excellent and Mason used them extensively even on his non-Kodak cameras where a special C-mount adaptor was required. [Ref. 1] | Photography | Cine cameras | 16mm | metal->aluminum - possible | 2.2 | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0205.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0205.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||
| 102747 | 102747 | 2010.0206.003 | Reel film | metal [probably aluminum] | R-90 | Unknown | Unknown | 1965 | circa | 16 | All metal reel [probably aluminum] has flat black finish. | Owned and used by Canadian film maker Bill Mason who achieved international recognition for his wilderness and canoeing documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s. | Circular frame upon which film is wound for insertion into a camera. | The Bill Mason collection consists of typical cameras and other equipment in the 16 mm format widely used by documentary film makers in Canada in this period. Due to its relatively light weight (touted by the maker as the world¬ís lightest) and reflex view finding system the Beaulieu R16 was marketed as a news camera although company literature also suggested it was ideal for industrial and scientific film making. Called by one authority a "reasonably sturdy well designed versatile beautifully finished and easy-to-use machine " the Beaulieu was less expensive than such competitors as the Arriflex 16BL and √âclair NPR cameras although also not as quiet or robust (Lipton 132). The Beaulieu reflex viewfinder system consists of a mirror on the reciprocating shutter that directs light passing through the lens to a ground glass viewing screen during intervals when the shutter is closed. Unlike the more limited reflex viewer on the Cin√© Special this system enables accurate focus and depth of field evaluation while filming even when zooming or switching from one subject to another. A built-in reflex photocell meanwhile displays a light reading in the viewfinder to guide the operator in adjusting the diaphragm setting. Unlike the spring-driven Cin√© Special the Beaulieu R16 is powered by a transistor regulated electric motor that provides stability over a range of speeds (2-64 fps) while a sync pulse socket enables connection and synchronous operation with an audio tape recorder (although Mason appears not to have used the Beaulieu for synchronous sound filming). The drive train offers a variety of standard special effects features: reverse drive for fades and dissolves single frame filming for animation and time lapse photography and variable speed for slow and fast motion sequences. This example features a fixed turret with an Angenieux 12-120 mm f2.2 zoom lens and a shop-built zoom lens support (likely made by NFB technicians) used because of a tendency for the R16 turret to warp under the weight of the … | Photography | Cine cameras | 16mm | metal->aluminum | 2.2 | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0206.003.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2010.0206.003.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 106796 | 106796 | 2014.0070.010 | Tape | Off-white synthetic strip is wound on unbleached cardboard circular form. | Unknown | Unknown | 2010 | before | 14 | Off-white synthetic strip is wound on unbleached cardboard circular form. | Item from comprehensive collection of tools and technologies used by a Canadian prospector who worked in the exploration division of Newmont Mining Corporation in Haiti between 2010 and 2013. This collection reflects three aspects of the modern Canadian mining crucial to the understanding of this sector: mobility of the workforce ethnicity in the workforce and globalization. The mining workforce has been highly mobile on both community and individual levels. Entire towns formed around mining operations and died or changed their character when the resources were exhausted. Mining professionals especially in the field of mineral exploration work in various often remote locations around the globe and cover long distances in their daily work. The items donated to the Museum well represent the type of tools and technologies necessary to working outdoors in remote locations and a tropical climate. Ethnicity continues to play a role in the sector’s hiring practices. In this particular case an employer looked for a recent graduate bilingual prospector educated in Canada who could also communicate in Haitian-Creole. A set of hiring criteria in mining is often very specific and difficult to meet by Canadian graduates but essential to succeeding in exploration projects conducted abroad. Donated artifacts reflect Haitian-Creole cultural context of Newmont operations. [Ref. 1] | Used to visibly identify and/or define physical space. | Flagging kit: This is an example of a typical kit used to flag exploration spots during field work. Pens and pencils used in such work need to have especially design grip and the tape is usually bright pink or white. Purchased and used in Haiti. [Ref. 1] | Mining and Metallurgy | Personal gear | synthetic->;paper->cardboard | 3.3 | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2014.0070.010.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2014.0070.010.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||||
| 107654 | 107654 | 2015.0069.002 | Cover biological specimen | Synthetic | Re-purposed 46 | Pelling Dr. Andrew & Modulevski Daniel | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2014 | 2 | Clear molded synthetic. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: In Re-Purposed 46 Andrew Pelling and Daniel Modulevski demonstrate the ability to create living biological composites without resorting to genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. The experiment represents a ‘physical biohack’ in which apples were ‘re-purposed’ as a supporting matrix for living artificial human tissues. This experiment was on exhibit at the 2015 Ontario Scene Festival’s “BioArt / Collaborating with Life” exhibition (Karsh-Masson Gallery Ottawa City Hall Apr. 28-May 31 2015) which also featured talks from the lab’s artists-in-residence program (Tristan Matheson and WhiteFeather Hunter). The experiment is the product of the Pelling Lab’s cross-disciplinary environment where scientists engineers and artists work together in the fields of biophysical manipulation. The lab is rooted in the biophysical biological sciences and the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of manipulation and affiliated with the Department of Physics Department of Biology and Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network (Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013) received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013 and named a 2016 TED Fellow . Daniel Modulevsky is currently (2015) a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew E. Pelling and is the recipient of PhD fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award from the Microscopy and Microanalysis department in 2013. | A proof of concept experiment which does not use genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA in which apples were manipulated into reliable 3D culture scaffolding for the purpose of providing a low-cost and sustainable alternative to synthetic three-dimensional culture systems. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: Apples human epithelial and fibroblast cells plastic petri dishes and epoxy are preserved Henrietta-Lacks (HeLa) human cells grown in 46 slices of decellularized McIntosh apples (Modulevski Pelling). The apples were decellularized by washing/bathing in a sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) soap solution to decellularize the active apple tissue leaving the apple cell structure as 'scaffolding' onto which the human cells could take hold and grow in vitro (which took about 2 months). Once the growth phase was completed each of the 46 samples was preserved in an acrylic-based epoxy which set and fixed the biological material as one solid in order to be preserved. | Physics | Chemistry | Biochemistry | synthetic | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0069.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0069.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 107656 | 107656 | 2015.0070.002 | Cover biological specimen | Synthetic | Re-purposed 46 | Pelling Dr. Andrew & Modulevski Daniel | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2014 | 2 | Clear molded synthetic. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: In Re-Purposed 46 Andrew Pelling and Daniel Modulevski demonstrate the ability to create living biological composites without resorting to genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. The experiment represents a ‘physical biohack’ in which apples were ‘re-purposed’ as a supporting matrix for living artificial human tissues. This experiment was on exhibit at the 2015 Ontario Scene Festival’s “BioArt / Collaborating with Life” exhibition (Karsh-Masson Gallery Ottawa City Hall Apr. 28-May 31 2015) which also featured talks from the lab’s artists-in-residence program (Tristan Matheson and WhiteFeather Hunter). The experiment is the product of the Pelling Lab’s cross-disciplinary environment where scientists engineers and artists work together in the fields of biophysical manipulation. The lab is rooted in the biophysical biological sciences and the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of manipulation and affiliated with the Department of Physics Department of Biology and Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network (Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013) received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013 and named a 2016 TED Fellow . Daniel Modulevsky is currently (2015) a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew E. Pelling and is the recipient of PhD fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award from the Microscopy and Microanalysis department in 2013. | A proof of concept experiment which does not use genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA in which apples were manipulated into reliable 3D culture scaffolding for the purpose of providing a low-cost and sustainable alternative to synthetic three-dimensional culture systems. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: Apples human epithelial and fibroblast cells plastic petri dishes and epoxy are preserved Henrietta-Lacks (HeLa) human cells grown in 46 slices of decellularized McIntosh apples (Modulevski Pelling). The apples were decellularized by washing/bathing in a sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) soap solution to decellularize the active apple tissue leaving the apple cell structure as 'scaffolding' onto which the human cells could take hold and grow in vitro (which took about 2 months). Once the growth phase was completed each of the 46 samples was preserved in an acrylic-based epoxy which set and fixed the biological material as one solid in order to be preserved. | Physics | Chemistry | Biochemistry | synthetic | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0070.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0070.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 107658 | 107658 | 2015.0071.002 | Cover biological specimen | Synthetic | Re-purposed 46 | Pelling Dr. Andrew & Modulevski Daniel | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2014 | 2 | Clear molded synthetic. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: In Re-Purposed 46 Andrew Pelling and Daniel Modulevski demonstrate the ability to create living biological composites without resorting to genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. The experiment represents a ‘physical biohack’ in which apples were ‘re-purposed’ as a supporting matrix for living artificial human tissues. This experiment was on exhibit at the 2015 Ontario Scene Festival’s “BioArt / Collaborating with Life” exhibition (Karsh-Masson Gallery Ottawa City Hall Apr. 28-May 31 2015) which also featured talks from the lab’s artists-in-residence program (Tristan Matheson and WhiteFeather Hunter). The experiment is the product of the Pelling Lab’s cross-disciplinary environment where scientists engineers and artists work together in the fields of biophysical manipulation. The lab is rooted in the biophysical biological sciences and the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of manipulation and affiliated with the Department of Physics Department of Biology and Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network (Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013) received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013 and named a 2016 TED Fellow . Daniel Modulevsky is currently (2015) a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew E. Pelling and is the recipient of PhD fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award from the Microscopy and Microanalysis department in 2013. | A proof of concept experiment which does not use genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA in which apples were manipulated into reliable 3D culture scaffolding for the purpose of providing a low-cost and sustainable alternative to synthetic three-dimensional culture systems. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: Apples human epithelial and fibroblast cells plastic petri dishes and epoxy are preserved Henrietta-Lacks (HeLa) human cells grown in 46 slices of decellularized McIntosh apples (Modulevski Pelling). The apples were decellularized by washing/bathing in a sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) soap solution to decellularize the active apple tissue leaving the apple cell structure as 'scaffolding' onto which the human cells could take hold and grow in vitro (which took about 2 months). Once the growth phase was completed each of the 46 samples was preserved in an acrylic-based epoxy which set and fixed the biological material as one solid in order to be preserved. | Physics | Chemistry | Biochemistry | synthetic | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0071.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0071.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 107660 | 107660 | 2015.0072.002 | Cover biological specimen | Synthetic | Re-purposed 46 | Pelling Dr. Andrew & Modulevski Daniel | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2014 | 2 | Clear molded synthetic. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: In Re-Purposed 46 Andrew Pelling and Daniel Modulevski demonstrate the ability to create living biological composites without resorting to genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. The experiment represents a ‘physical biohack’ in which apples were ‘re-purposed’ as a supporting matrix for living artificial human tissues. This experiment was on exhibit at the 2015 Ontario Scene Festival’s “BioArt / Collaborating with Life” exhibition (Karsh-Masson Gallery Ottawa City Hall Apr. 28-May 31 2015) which also featured talks from the lab’s artists-in-residence program (Tristan Matheson and WhiteFeather Hunter). The experiment is the product of the Pelling Lab’s cross-disciplinary environment where scientists engineers and artists work together in the fields of biophysical manipulation. The lab is rooted in the biophysical biological sciences and the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of manipulation and affiliated with the Department of Physics Department of Biology and Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network (Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013) received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013 and named a 2016 TED Fellow . Daniel Modulevsky is currently (2015) a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew E. Pelling and is the recipient of PhD fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award from the Microscopy and Microanalysis department in 2013. | A proof of concept experiment which does not use genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA in which apples were manipulated into reliable 3D culture scaffolding for the purpose of providing a low-cost and sustainable alternative to synthetic three-dimensional culture systems. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: Apples human epithelial and fibroblast cells plastic petri dishes and epoxy are preserved Henrietta-Lacks (HeLa) human cells grown in 46 slices of decellularized McIntosh apples (Modulevski Pelling). The apples were decellularized by washing/bathing in a sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) soap solution to decellularize the active apple tissue leaving the apple cell structure as 'scaffolding' onto which the human cells could take hold and grow in vitro (which took about 2 months). Once the growth phase was completed each of the 46 samples was preserved in an acrylic-based epoxy which set and fixed the biological material as one solid in order to be preserved. | Physics | Chemistry | Biochemistry | synthetic | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0072.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0072.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 107662 | 107662 | 2015.0073.002 | Cover biological specimen | Synthetic | Re-purposed 46 | Pelling Dr. Andrew & Modulevski Daniel | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2014 | 2 | Clear molded synthetic. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: In Re-Purposed 46 Andrew Pelling and Daniel Modulevski demonstrate the ability to create living biological composites without resorting to genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. The experiment represents a ‘physical biohack’ in which apples were ‘re-purposed’ as a supporting matrix for living artificial human tissues. This experiment was on exhibit at the 2015 Ontario Scene Festival’s “BioArt / Collaborating with Life” exhibition (Karsh-Masson Gallery Ottawa City Hall Apr. 28-May 31 2015) which also featured talks from the lab’s artists-in-residence program (Tristan Matheson and WhiteFeather Hunter). The experiment is the product of the Pelling Lab’s cross-disciplinary environment where scientists engineers and artists work together in the fields of biophysical manipulation. The lab is rooted in the biophysical biological sciences and the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of manipulation and affiliated with the Department of Physics Department of Biology and Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network (Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013) received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013 and named a 2016 TED Fellow . Daniel Modulevsky is currently (2015) a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew E. Pelling and is the recipient of PhD fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award from the Microscopy and Microanalysis department in 2013. | A proof of concept experiment which does not use genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA in which apples were manipulated into reliable 3D culture scaffolding for the purpose of providing a low-cost and sustainable alternative to synthetic three-dimensional culture systems. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: Apples human epithelial and fibroblast cells plastic petri dishes and epoxy are preserved Henrietta-Lacks (HeLa) human cells grown in 46 slices of decellularized McIntosh apples (Modulevski Pelling). The apples were decellularized by washing/bathing in a sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) soap solution to decellularize the active apple tissue leaving the apple cell structure as 'scaffolding' onto which the human cells could take hold and grow in vitro (which took about 2 months). Once the growth phase was completed each of the 46 samples was preserved in an acrylic-based epoxy which set and fixed the biological material as one solid in order to be preserved. | Physics | Chemistry | Biochemistry | synthetic | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0073.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0073.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 107664 | 107664 | 2015.0074.002 | Cover biological specimen | Synthetic | Re-purposed 46 | Pelling Dr. Andrew & Modulevski Daniel | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2014 | 2 | Clear molded synthetic. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: In Re-Purposed 46 Andrew Pelling and Daniel Modulevski demonstrate the ability to create living biological composites without resorting to genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. The experiment represents a ‘physical biohack’ in which apples were ‘re-purposed’ as a supporting matrix for living artificial human tissues. This experiment was on exhibit at the 2015 Ontario Scene Festival’s “BioArt / Collaborating with Life” exhibition (Karsh-Masson Gallery Ottawa City Hall Apr. 28-May 31 2015) which also featured talks from the lab’s artists-in-residence program (Tristan Matheson and WhiteFeather Hunter). The experiment is the product of the Pelling Lab’s cross-disciplinary environment where scientists engineers and artists work together in the fields of biophysical manipulation. The lab is rooted in the biophysical biological sciences and the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of manipulation and affiliated with the Department of Physics Department of Biology and Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network (Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013) received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013 and named a 2016 TED Fellow . Daniel Modulevsky is currently (2015) a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew E. Pelling and is the recipient of PhD fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award from the Microscopy and Microanalysis department in 2013. | A proof of concept experiment which does not use genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA in which apples were manipulated into reliable 3D culture scaffolding for the purpose of providing a low-cost and sustainable alternative to synthetic three-dimensional culture systems. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: Apples human epithelial and fibroblast cells plastic petri dishes and epoxy are preserved Henrietta-Lacks (HeLa) human cells grown in 46 slices of decellularized McIntosh apples (Modulevski Pelling). The apples were decellularized by washing/bathing in a sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) soap solution to decellularize the active apple tissue leaving the apple cell structure as 'scaffolding' onto which the human cells could take hold and grow in vitro (which took about 2 months). Once the growth phase was completed each of the 46 samples was preserved in an acrylic-based epoxy which set and fixed the biological material as one solid in order to be preserved. | Physics | Chemistry | Biochemistry | synthetic | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0074.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0074.002.aa.cs.thumb.png | ||||||||||||||||
| 107666 | 107666 | 2015.0075.002 | Cover biological specimen | Synthetic | Re-purposed 46 | Pelling Dr. Andrew & Modulevski Daniel | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 2014 | 2 | Clear molded synthetic. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: In Re-Purposed 46 Andrew Pelling and Daniel Modulevski demonstrate the ability to create living biological composites without resorting to genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA. The experiment represents a ‘physical biohack’ in which apples were ‘re-purposed’ as a supporting matrix for living artificial human tissues. This experiment was on exhibit at the 2015 Ontario Scene Festival’s “BioArt / Collaborating with Life” exhibition (Karsh-Masson Gallery Ottawa City Hall Apr. 28-May 31 2015) which also featured talks from the lab’s artists-in-residence program (Tristan Matheson and WhiteFeather Hunter). The experiment is the product of the Pelling Lab’s cross-disciplinary environment where scientists engineers and artists work together in the fields of biophysical manipulation. The lab is rooted in the biophysical biological sciences and the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of manipulation and affiliated with the Department of Physics Department of Biology and Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network (Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). Dr. Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013) received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009 an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013 and named a 2016 TED Fellow . Daniel Modulevsky is currently (2015) a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew E. Pelling and is the recipient of PhD fellowship from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé and was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award from the Microscopy and Microanalysis department in 2013. | A proof of concept experiment which does not use genetic engineering and the manipulation of DNA in which apples were manipulated into reliable 3D culture scaffolding for the purpose of providing a low-cost and sustainable alternative to synthetic three-dimensional culture systems. | Taken from Acquisition proposal reference #1: Apples human epithelial and fibroblast cells plastic petri dishes and epoxy are preserved Henrietta-Lacks (HeLa) human cells grown in 46 slices of decellularized McIntosh apples (Modulevski Pelling). The apples were decellularized by washing/bathing in a sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) soap solution to decellularize the active apple tissue leaving the apple cell structure as 'scaffolding' onto which the human cells could take hold and grow in vitro (which took about 2 months). Once the growth phase was completed each of the 46 samples was preserved in an acrylic-based epoxy which set and fixed the biological material as one solid in order to be preserved. | Physics | Chemistry | Biochemistry | synthetic | 9.1 cm | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0075.002.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/2015.0075.002.aa.cs.thumb.png |
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