​Professor Mark Rector - Author of "OH CANADA! Our Home and Inventive Land"

Mon Apr 22 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

Coach House At Erchless Estate | Oakville

Oakville Historical Society
Publisher/HostOakville Historical Society
\u200bProfessor Mark Rector - Author of "OH CANADA! Our Home and Inventive Land"
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Canadian inventors and technology are Professor Mark Rector's life-long passions. Listen to inventors' stories, firsts, and innovations.
About this Event

Our speakers' nights are free and open to the public.

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Professor Mark Rector is our speaker and an author.
From a life-long passion for Canadian inventors and technology, Professor Mark Rector has written this comprehensive tome, chock full of inventors’ stories, firsts, and innovations that happened here in our “Home and Inventive Land.”

From the compound steam engine and gasoline of the Industrial Revolution to the lightbulb and the telephone of the Victorian era to the Canadarm and Blackberry of today; we invented them all!!!

YES, ALL OF THEM!

From the tragedy of the to the triumph of millions saved by the pacemaker. The stories of Bell Canada, the Robertson screw, SPAR Aerospace, Northern Telecom and Easy-Off! The Canadian ingenuity and innovation crammed into one light, breezy compendium!
Copies of the book will be available for purchase by cash or cheque. You may buy a copy now. Ingenium has the lowest shipping cost. Gift wrapping too. Ingenium is also a fascinating website.




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Coach House At Erchless Estate, 114 King Street, Oakville, Canada

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