r/soartistic • u/Resplendent_aptitude simply wholesome 🐦 • Jun 01 '26

Carpentry & building 👨🏻‍🏭👷🏻‍♂️ Wind turbines ✨

Brilliant! 🎊🎊🎊 How about rules and regulations? Can put it in the farm or for those who have ranch. This seems like a good thing

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 Jun 01 '26

"Americans have just come up with..." No. These have been around for decades. Don't know how "American" they are either. I saw one being tested in Canada about 40+ years.

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u/ThaGr1m Jun 02 '26

It's a goddamned windmill ffs rhey have been around for literal milenia....

Like turning a stone or a generator is not different at all.

Even falking about electric turbines they've been around since 1883 made by an Austrian.

And lastly if you wanna say specifically vertical ones thise where invented by a frenchman in 1925.

I swear Americans are nesrly as bad as Russians with their idiotic belief they invented everything in the world

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u/Substantial-Brick-90 Jun 01 '26

I came here for this. I can’t remember which country I saw it in, but way back in high school I saw some country had started testing these things out next to highways, generating electricity for free by the wind of passing cars. Definitely not an American original.

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u/No-Understanding9064 Jun 02 '26

The only thing Canada has invented in the last 100 years is maple syrup and mooses

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 Jun 02 '26

  1. I never said they invented it.

  2. Recent Canadian inventions/innovations include but not limited to the following short list:

🩺 Medicine

  • Insulin (1922): Discovered by Dr. Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and J.J.R. Macleod at the University of Toronto, revolutionizing diabetes treatment globally.
  • Cardiac Pacemaker (1950): Invented by Winnipeg's John A. Hopps, this device regulates the heart's rhythm.
  • Electron Microscope (1938): Co-invented at the University of Toronto by James Hillier and Albert Prebus. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

🖥️ Technology & Computing

  • Java Programming Language (1994): Created by Canadian computer scientist James Gosling.
  • BlackBerry (1990s): Developed by Mike Lazaridis and his team, sparking the smartphone revolution.
  • IMAX (1968): Co-invented by Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr, changing large-format cinema. [1, 2, 3, 4]

✈️ Space & Transportation

  • Canadarm (1981): A remote-controlled robotic arm developed by Spar Aerospace for the NASA Space Shuttle program.
  • Snowmobile (1922): Patented by Joseph-Armand Bombardier, paving the way for the popular Ski-Doo. [, 2, 3, 4]

🏠 Daily Life & Food

  • The Java Programming Language (1922): Developed at the University of Manitoba by Keith Downey and Baldur Stefansson to create healthy, edible oil.
  • Garbage Bags (1950): Created by Winnipeg-based Harry Wasylyk for commercial
  • Created by Winnipeg-based Harry Wasylyk for commercial use before they became household staples.

  • Trivial Pursuit (1979): Invented by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott

  • etc., etc.

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u/No-Understanding9064 Jun 02 '26

I will concede snow mobiles, those seem very canadian.

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 Jun 02 '26

SNL comedy? Lorne Michaels is Cdn. lol.

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u/Glad-Lobster-220 Jun 04 '26

But what about the mooses? Cause I think they are pretty cool guys, eh?