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1Invention in Canada — This article outlines the history of Canadian technological invention. Technologies chosen for treatment here include, in rough order, transportation, communication, energy, materials, industry, public works, public services (health care),… …
2Invention of the telephone — The modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, an apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds… …
3Background music — Although background music was by the end of the 20th Century generally identified with Muzak or elevator music, there are several stages in the development of this concept:AntecedentsIn the Baroque and Classical music era music could be performed …
4The Mothers of Invention — L R: Billy Mundi, Jim Sherwood, Frank Zappa, Jimmy Carl Black, Don Preston, Roy Estrada Background information …
5Rhino tank — US M4 Sherman with Rhino bocage breaching modifications, Normandy 1944 The Rhino tank (or Rhinoceros )[1][2][3] was the Americ …
6Diffusion of technology in Canada — This article outlines the history of the diffusion or spread of technology in Canada. Technologies chosen for treatment here include, in rough order, transportation, communication, energy, materials, industry, public works, public services… …
7Technological and industrial history of Canada — The technological and industrial history of Canada encompasses the country s development in the areas of transportation, communication, energy, materials, public works, public services (health care), domestic/consumer and defense technologies.… …
8Alice Cordelia Morse — Background and Education Alice Cordelia Morse was a designer during the American Arts and Crafts Movement. She was born on June 1, 1863 in Hammondsville, Jefferson County, Ohio. She lived with her parents, Joseph and Ruth Perkins Morse [Willets,… …
9literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
10painting, Western — ▪ art Introduction history of Western painting from its beginnings in prehistoric times to the present. Painting, the execution of forms and shapes on a surface by means of pigment (but see also drawing for discussion of depictions in …
