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Prolific Inventors in Canada

Prolific inventors in Canada include James Naismith (1861 – 1939), who is best known as the inventor of the game of basketball; Reginald Fessenden (1866 – 1932), who developed radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation (AM) the radio; Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907 – 1964), his most famous invention was the snowmobile; Yvonne Madelaine Brill (1924 – 2013), she is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet); Frederick Grant Banting (1891 – 1941), the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential; Henry Woodward & Mathew Evans – Invented and patented the electric light bulb; Abraham Pineo Gesner (1797 – 1864) was a physician and geologist who invented kerosene.

That was then. We now have a new breed of innovators leading Canada today. USPTO Utility data was analyzed from January 1, 2002, through May 9, 2023

Please click here for an exhaustive list of ALL inventors in Canada.

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Angelina Kushnarova (Sverediuk) was born in Ukraine. She graduated from Ternopil Medical University with a specialization in Medicine and completed an internship in Radiology at Lviv University. She worked as a Radiologist, while also working as a web developer.

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