Torontoist » inventions http://torontoist.com Torontoist is about Toronto and everything that happens in it Sun, 27 May 2012 03:02:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Historicist: The Dawn of the Horseless Era Believed to be the first automobile in Toronto, photographed circa 1912. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 56.

On December 7, 1896, the Globe heralded “the dawn of the horseless era” in Toronto, following the test of a motor vehicle at Dixon’s Carriage Works at Bay and Temperance streets. Dixon’s had hitherto dealt exclusively in horse-drawn vehicles, and this “motor carriage” was the first of its kind in Toronto, the personal property of [...]

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The hosts of Re-Inventors, Jeremy MacPherson and Matt Hunter, put one of their “re-inventions” to the test against Olivier Jean, a speed skater and Olympic hopeful, at the Ricoh Coliseum this week. The propeller strapped to MacPherson’s back was based on a patent registered in 1948 by Horace M. Morrill, who intended the device to [...]

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It’s been said that the geeks shall inherit the Earth, and a pair of Ontario high school students are doing it with zero emissions. Behold the Tango—a compact, electric motorcycle that could be the future of motorized solo transportation. Introduced at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF) in Albuquerque, Oakville’s Ben Gulak [...]

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