Tech & Toys Collection

It started with a simple (and slightly absurd) request at a Quebec diner in 1957: add cheese curds to fries. Restaurateur Fernand LaChance famously warned, "Ça va faire une maudite...

Table hockey might not seem like a revolutionary invention today, but in 1932, it was a holiday miracle. Toronto native Donald H. Munro Sr. couldn’t afford store-bought gifts during the...

Tractor manufacturing has deep roots in Canadian history. When James G. Cockshutt founded the Brantford Plow Works in 1877, the company would go on to build rugged farm machinery that...

Back in 1909, Toronto bowling alley owner Thomas F. Ryan got tired of hearing his patrons complain that ten-pin bowling was just too physically demanding. So, in true Canadian fashion,...

Hey, who says AM radio isn’t cool? If Quebec-born inventor Reginald Fessenden could see this piece paying tribute to his groundbreaking 1906 amplitude-modulated radio invention, we think he’d agree that...

  “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” When Brantford, Ontario inventor Alexander Graham Bell spoke those famous words into his experimental telephone on March 10, 1876, it marked the...

Peter Lymburner Robertson was demonstrating a spring-loaded screwdriver when the blade slipped from the screw slot and badly cut his hand. Rather than accept the flaw, he decided to invent...

Peter Lymburner Robertson was demonstrating a spring-loaded screwdriver when the blade slipped from the screw slot and badly cut his hand. Rather than accept the flaw, he decided to invent...