American Reacts to Unexpected Canadian Inventions 

Because he was working on it in the US, ...it sort of doesn't count? But Ya, there's some smart cookies up this way.

@@iscovidoveryet7828 Unless the University of Toronto was located in the USA in the 1920s... then no. WTF are you talking about?

@@zammmerjammer I could've sworn he was doing research in Massachusetts. But it has been some 40+ yrs since I first heard about it. but thanks for the correction.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WX06dfTkTiY.html There's a whole lot here in categories. Yet, Canadian ingenuity doesn't really stop there.

It's regarded as a discovery, not an invention.

Thats what i tell people, Robertsons are just the best, they dont strip anywhere near as easily, they're more likely to snap! Philips are just American, so people stand by them :(

Welcome to the Robertson screw cult!

We used them in industrial construction in BC and I would go through literally hundreds of them everyday. They stick to the end of the driver and you can reach out with it at arms length. Super handy when you're perching on a pipe a hundred or more feet off the ground.

I trained in the military with a great grandson of the inventor of the Robertson screw. It's a point of pride in his family.

can thank Henry Ford for why they never made it to USA...he wanted the patent, didnt get it. lobbied congress to keep em out of USA

Exactly, out of all the important inventions. Only these mostly random things make his top 10 list 😂

We didn’t invent macintosh apples the real history is a grove was found in Ontario by Mr.Macintosh as a new and distinct variety never seen before. It was discovered to late when most of the natural trees in the east had been cut down for urbanization and farmland, that this variety only grows from root propagation or cloning and all trees were attached by root to a single tree in the groves thruout the province. Thus all Macintosh apples are genetically identical due to the fact they are still all from the original tree they ended up having to be started from. So not invented or even engineered just lucky we realized not to last we could not get the same fruit or tree from seed.

@@khorihorton5207 All apples have to be grafted from a parent tree to maintain the true variety, not just Mackintosh apples. The only time you grow from seed is when you are trying to cross pollinate varieties to make a new hybrid variety. Same as roses, they are both part of the Rosaceae family, as are other stone fruits.

Keep on talkin brother

Don't forget bag milk, And have to probably refine steel for longevity

Shhh, he's probably a CIA spy. ROFLMAO.

Bullshit

He thinks, like most yanks, that no one else can invent anything, just them, remember he makes money his YTs , so his interest is fake

Torquing out, camming out, stripping out or breaking screw heads are why I hate Philips head screws. I need to carry a selection of dozens of Philips screwdrivers to make sure I have the exact one that fits. Not to mention bandages for when the screwdriver wobbles and sends it through my finger.

Apparently, Henry Ford tried to buy Robertson's patent for the squared-hole screw, but he refused. Since the Model T Ford car was produced en masse and spread everywhere in the world, the use of cross-head screws spread with it. So you can thank the stubbornness of Henry Ford for not wanting to pay royalty fees for all the screws you stripped.

@@lilo621 Robertson didn't sell Ford the patent for the square head screw because He wanted to keep it's production in Canada and Ford didn't want to buy them by the unit.

Good old #2 red screwdriver ❤

This dude has never seen a Robertson screw or screwdriver ? It's all I use. Far superior to Phillips. And those Torx screws are an annoying abomination .

Because we're quietly brilliant LOL they also don't realize how many famous actors are actually Canadian lol

I think it’s largely a numbers thing. USA has 10x the people so they have 10x the inventors/engineers/scientists. Like if having a clever invention is a 1 in a million thing, they get to roll the dice 10x for every 1x we do.

USA just assumes they did everything significant lol and don’t mention the rest.

He's quite condescending in his videos if you notice..

@@craigarthur7599 I agree it's a numbers thing because we are a very small nation compared to the states and when you look at it in terms of numbers yes they do have a major advantage over us. We've had many many young people that are doing research into cancer and are coming up with major innovations for cancer treatments and different methods and medications to treat cancer and in some cases from what I have read they have eradicated cancer in their test rats so that makes her great news here not just in Canada but for everybody. Our list could go on and on when it comes to innovations research that we are doing in Canada alone but because we are a small nation it doesn't get the same splash in the news for lack of a better way to say it as what they do in the states so I'm very proud to be a Canadian and I am very proud when one of our own people come up with a massive new innovation that is going to help so many millions of people.

Amen to that, brother.

I wouldn't need to attend Screw Strippers Anonymous meetings anymore 🤣 In reality haha this would be my ideal world: Torx/Robby/Socket Hex Torx for machine style(fastening thread) screws for threaded holes/small nut-bolt fastening, low torque applications. Robertson for standard(coarse self drilling thread) woodworking screws, metal self tapping etc. Hand or drill driven torque applications. Socket Hex head bolts for heavy duty/high strength/high torque applications. Fastening bolts in threaded holes. Bolt-nut fastening. Lag bolts with self drilling coarse threads etc. Ratchet and Socket/Breaker Bar/Pneumatic/Hydraulic driven. Head-shape/Taper choices based on application.

Right on !

It was almost adopted by ford as there standard screw when the model T was being built I believe, I imagine it would be used by the whole world now if that had happened.

Is that the red one? I only learned fairly recently that the handles are colour-coded. My husband is a devotee of the Robertson.

Perogies are actually Ukranian

@@519breezy I never said they weren't, and I don't live in Ukraine either, so I still can't get them. Although they're of Ukrainian origin, they're also very much Canadian.

Outside of Ukraine, Russia has the biggest Ukrainian community (fair, since they are neighbours). Then, Canada has the 2nd biggest Ukrainian community. Perogies are very popular at least in central Canada.

Perogies are pretty simple to make,

@@CraZY.pRIME. If you have the right ingredients.

And all those engineers end up with the US aeronautics and the space program...

Yes David Best it was an exceptional fighter jet reaching speeds of unheard of back then of Mach 2. Unfortunately they were way overbudget and the Beafort (sp?) surface to air missile was the Governments choice for defence of the Russians in the North.

@@kduquett .....Bomark, and already obsolete when Diefendorfer ordered them as a cheaper replacement for the Arrow. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fghEZwmdVoI.html Excuse me, Bomarc should be spelled with a hard 'c', not a 'k' [just looked it up] .

They also forgot about the G-suit; from Wiki: Wilbur Rounding Franks, medical researcher, inventor of the "G suit" (b at Weston, Ont 4 Mar 1901; d at Toronto 4 Jan 1986). After graduating in medicine at the University of Toronto, Franks trained in cancer research under F.W. BANTING and took charge of wartime RCAF medical research after Banting's death. He invented the pressure suit, which allows pilots to carry out high-speed manoeuvres without losing consciousness, used by Allied fighter pilots from 1942 onwards. Astronauts' pressure suits today are mere refinements of Franks's design. For this project, he built in wartime the first Canadian human centrifuge. Franks's wartime laboratory became the RCAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, which became the Defence and Civil Institute of Environment Medicine, Toronto, and is now Defence Research and Development Canada.

@@kduquett Bomarc missile.

Every Canadian carpenter cringes when a product built in the US comes with Philips head screws. Absolutely detest them!

@@ontheroadwithyode390 Although not nearly as terrible as a slot screw...

Phillips screws are designed to slip if you try to over torque. Robertson are designed to not slip. Each has a good engineering purpose but Philips is used for no good reason on cheap stuff because americans have them.

@@ccibinel The American Government wanted to use Robertson screws for the military and had contracted Ford to do so. But Ford wanted Robertson to sell him the patent. Robertson refused. Then WW1 hit. Prior to Canada 🇨🇦 joining the war effort. Robertson was still selling Robertson screws to Germany. That pissed off the US and they boycotted the Robertson screw.

@@ontheroadwithyode390 This was an insider collusion issue in the US between Ford and the Gov't. Nothing stopped them using it but the creator didn't want to sell the patent. As prevalent as modern bribery is the freedom of information and communication prevents things as overt as this.

You are correct about insulin but you better not forget about penicillin I believe that was just as big of a discovery as insulin by two British researchers whereas it was three researchers here in Toronto in the early 1910s

Insulin is not an invention. It's a discovery. Insulin naturally is produced by the body. I believe the earliest form of insulin used to treat diabetes was from cows. I may be wrong about that last part.

Snowmobile too

How about instant mashed potatoes and baby pablum.

And basketball.

Insulin was discovered, not invented

I’m so glad I saw this comment! I will definitely be looking into him. Thank you and I will for sure be sharing his story whenever I can 🇨🇦 💪

Leo majour is a French Canadian badass . Canada really needs to tell his tale more as his family would love to hear to spread throughout Canada still to this very date. He’s Canada’s Audy’s Murphy. Also Canada liberated holland and Genernal patron even commented on how much guts a Canadian solider has. We also wanted General Patton to go after Russia after that as well if you watch Patton. What was going on in Russia was no different than Germany.

The real life one-eyed Canadian Rambo, Leo Major ♡

Captain CameraLock - Is it spelled Majours?

I also recommend Leo Major, guy was crazy hard-core. Everyone needs to know about him. Infographics has a great telling of his story.

And one of the greatest, publicly subsidized.

not to mention snowmobiles and seadoos

And skidoos

@@jasonarthurs3885 Unlike Embraer,Airbus and Boeing ?

@@vincentlefebvre9255 No. Very much like your examples. Thank you.

Actually Edward Morris 1939 tied a roller to a broom handle

Latex paint is garbage

That's super weird. Anyone who has ever had to remove a Phillips screw from a wall or board would rejoice if they came across a Robertson. I'm not sure I've ever in my life seen a Phillips screw that wasn't stripped by the time it was installed. God, they're just the worst.

Yeah, those screws are good for fixing things to a wall or panel. Don't overtorque or else you will end up having a round hole instead of a square one.

It will also stay on your screwdriver or bit without having to hold it, freeing up your other hand to hold the material.

The other thing I like is that the screwdrivers are coloured. #1 is green, #2 is red, #3 is black. I know there are others but these are the most common ones i use. If I am up on a ladder and need my wife or daughter to get me a screwdriver, I just need to say "hand me the [insert colour here] one".

for more in-depth video information on the subject have a look at this, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R-mDqKtivuI.html added bonus is the gentleman channel is super interesting.

Goofd idea. Those Heritage Minutes are great!

I wouldn't say it never straps. It sure doesn't strip as fast as a Phillips, but you definitely can strip a Robertson if you put the effort in.

@@scotthodgins7975 You shouldn't ever be able to strip one or else you're doing something horribly wrong.

@@theandice8152 hehege.. if you are using a powered screwdriver, and don't have the proper leverage or the screw is in an extremely inaccessible place .... anything is possible.

@@theandice8152 or in my personal case, you don't have the right bit ... you can strip them. Otherwise you are correct.

false , they're called decking screws in the U.S and are used in construction , very common item

@Almost Average available everywhere , ace hardware , home depot , Lowe's etc , hell I think they have them at walmart

I thought Velcro was invented by George de Mestral, who is Swiss

Velcro was invented in Switzerland by a Swiss engineer. Just to be clear, a cobalt bomb is a type of dirty weapon. What you are referring to is a type of radiotherapy machine that uses a beam of Cobalt. "Cobalt Bomb" or "Cancer Bomb" are just nicknames.

Opps, I fact checked myself, to my dismay the stubby was invented in America, life will never be the same now. :)

The ink used to print US money is not the same one that was invented in Canada, it is a mixture of 3 different shades of green now.

@@marydavis5234 No argument on that but, the first bills in green ink started out with the green ink manufactured in Canada. It's a fact that nobody denies.

Yes, I understand that Saudi Arabia has ordered 100,000 of them.

Even more important was the timing of trains. When you run trains in both directions on a single track local trains must pull over into a siding to allow express trains to pass. Timing is critical, which is why the conductor and engineer had special, very accurate "railroad watches" and trains ran to a tight time schedule. This would only work if everyone was using the same timing and that is why Sir Sandford Fleming invented time zones.

Traffic lights too. First one in the world was in Toronto I believe

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-Canadian-American

Alexander Graham-Bell invested the telephone in my home town of Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The 1st phone call was made between Brantford, Ontario and Mt. Pleasant, Ontario.

he also worked on hydroplanes and airplanes

Actually born in Scotland

That is so cool - one I didn't know!

Was that MOOG? Or something like that?

My Dad worked with Le Cain at the NRC. Dad was a sergeant in the RCAF and an expert sheet metal worker. He built a lot of the prototypes for the very early radars during WWII and also the chassis for Le Cains projects, many of which had nothing to do with music. As a matter of interest, the first musical composition for an electronic synthesizer is a piece called "Dripsody" which Le Cain created from the sound of a single drop of water dripping into a cup of water.

You can file down a Phillips and use it for a Robertson if you're in a pinch and only have 3 drivers lol

Except 90% of Robertson screws are #2

"Passe-moi le tournevis carré rouge"

By the sound of it, I'm not sure this guy is familiar with the Space Shuttle. Lol

I didn't know Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian LOL

Also for building decks which I've done. Use a Robertson screwdriver bit in my drill to drive the screws. Phillips screws are okay, but Robertson ones are better.

Hate flat head.

Flat heads are only good for stabbing your hand and opening the paint can after you stab your hand

Waterloo region! Awesome area. Underrated place in Canada.

It wasn't so much "the blackberry" as it was the software it used, RIM network or Research In Motion, however obsolete it is now, it was invented in Kitchener ont, the software that's on the phone, not the actual phone cell phones were already around for awhile

I grew up just up the street ( university ave) from the Universities. My best friends dad taught at the University of waterloo. I'm always pretty proud every time I hear of them doing something new and innovative.

Both invented in my hometown of London Ontario. Fully robotic surgery meant for space was also invented at UWO.

Nah, the insulin is more important then a landline, Wich most people now wouldn't even know what it is

The basic Wheelchair was also invented in canada by vets and no patent was put on it so that anyone could make them if the Canadian science and technology museum is to be believed.

12:30 in Newfoundland😀

@@alphabeta1094 And Mars rotates in 23 1/2 hours so there's proof that Newfoundlanders are from Mars.

Bullshit , we use nail guns 1000x faster then the screw , P.S we have that screw as well except here we call it a decking screw

@@tomjones2121 LOL do you think nail guns are exclusively American? And decking screws aren't the same as construction screws. Maybe read up a bit on it more before commenting, all you're doing now is reinforcing the ignorant American stereotype.

@@hannabis80 whatever tickles your fancy , it's just a box screw ..

That was on the Mike Holmes show!

Bullshit , we have them here , we've had them for decades , they're called decking screws here

@@tomjones2121 it's not BS, yeah they're available as decking screws but that's it. In the US they use that shitty torx instead of Robertson for construction screws.

@@hannabis80 we don't use screws for construction except for drywall and electric boxes , maybe that's why a Canadian house costs a million + LOL

USA uses nails not screws for construction. We needing less moveable houses to account for our cooler climate and more shifting expanding and contracting from harsh temperatures changes to come up with an option that can’t just slide out with see if any type of reverse pressure is applied. Plus a screw and a nail cost almost the same here when talking construction grade so that wouldn’t affect our overall cost to build. It cost nowhere near $1 million to build a home unless you’re building a home that cost $1 million that home would probably be worth triple that once it was built in this country the reason they cost $1 million is because we have one of the most stable and desirable real estate markets on the planet and everybody wants to be here and we can’t build houses fast enough to even meet demand before their bought lol so that’s reality now cost so much but yes it does cost us more for us here. The sad part is petroleum wise and lumber wise where your largest supplier as trade partner of both as well as 30% of your energy needs are bought from Canada energy and yet you and the consumers that use these products it way less to use the same products we shipped to you then we do for the product at the trees we send you come from right out of my backyard and I still pay more for lumber than you that’s just called hire taxation and that’s why we benefit from so many social programs that don’t tag us with random bills out of the blue for every little thing we do in life because it’s not covered by any government program. I digress lol Most things constructed with a screw instead of a nail tend to last 2x as long and need less repairs in that span as well. I would never build a deck with nails I’d have to replace half the deck within the first five years due to what the water does to it. Nails allow things to move and shift screws hold it more in place and thus things move and shift more together thus allowing less water to get into places it doesn’t dry naturally thus causing rot and retention right at joint areas and such plus our screws for this are made of non rust materials so they hold up better then nails designed to do the same many times just a coating or powdering of some kind to stop rust not a metal that doesn’t rust so yes while it may in incur a pit more cost as they are a bit more costly and take a bit more time to install it’s the preferred way for quality and durability most contractor and construction workers still just use nail guns for most of the build and only they stuff you mentioned as well as drywall and fixtures and such use screws we’re just as financially responsible and cost-effective up here as you guys are down there and our contractors are just so shady and cheap and cut as many corners as they can wherever they can I do home inspection so let me tell you it’s rare to find on them properly by anyone ever need anything illegal or not to code but The term cookie-cutter home didn’t come out of nowhere and I’m pretty sure you use that term down there too shit just don’t last like it used to either way

@@tomjones2121 Dude I live in the US and I'm remodeling my poorly built American house. There are construction screw you muppet, and they use the inferior torx pattern and they're fucking garbage.

The Philips head almost has to be considered planned obsolescence. Anything manufactured with that head will take numerous hours to repair when that poor design eventually/always fails.

I am missing out by not using them then

is your name Gervaise dit Gervais, or Talbot dit Gervais?

I heard that Henry Ford would not allow the use of Robertson screws in US Ford production because they were patented, and he did not believe in buying anything from a single supplier. But Ford of Canada used them in Model T bodies.

@@mrdanforth3744 Ford wanted to buy the patent outright, for the Robertson and use them exclusively, Robertson said no... not sure if he made the right decision, as Ford was well-known for overpaying for exclusivity rights on any tooling he bought.

@@mrdanforth3744 "Ford, wanting to protect his assembly advantage, asked for a licensing agreement from Robertson so that he could manufacture and control the distribution of the screws. Robertson Screw Machine Robertson had expanded, by this time, into Europe. But his fortunes turned bad when the war (WW1) started." That is what I said, sir. BTW do you think the "Philips" screw are not patented also????? Really???? Even the common nail head on all nails is patented by someone in Baden, Germany. Patents, in volume purchases volumes, are not onerous at all. Actually a great example of the free enterprise system in action. You pay pennies on thousands of screw (or nail) heads for a design that is superior. Do you really think people invent things so that no one can afford to use them? WOW.

Yeah, listen to some great Canadian Music. The Tragically Hip, Rush, many more.

Yes, a segment on Canadian music or musicians would be interesting, especially the ones who are primarily known by Canadian audiences: Gord Downie, Bruce Cockburn, Jan Aarden, Sarah McLauchlin, Mathew Good, Rush etc.

@♜WhatsApp Me+①③⓪②⑤⑤①⑧⑤⑨② You are not Tyler.

Then 750 kV, then 1 MV!!

That is a major invention! Amazing!!

One of hubby’s first summer jobs was working on blueprints for Motorola’s cellphones. A few years later they lent a few to a festival I worked for. The size of a shoe box but at the time, super cool 😂😂😂

yes and Mcgill demonstrated the game at Harvard in 1883

You can buy Robertson bits in the US, and they're available for decking screws only.

I actually remember reading about this. Both countries played sport they called football, but the American and Canadian versions were so far apart from eachother. Harvard and McGill played a series of games, one in Canada and the other in the states. First game was in Canada playing the canadians version. Harvard fell in love with it and adopted our version. Details might be a bit off but if my memory serves me right, I have the jyst of this correct.

@@toddr037 There are still differences between the American and Canadian versions. Canadian football uses 12 players per side and the field is wider and 110 yards long. We also only have three downs instead of four.

he did it already

I missed it. I think I saw a video that included him. But not the full story.

Marconi doesn't count, he wasn't canadian. He Just used NFLD as a staging Area.

Edison never invented anything. Everything he supposedly invented, like the light bulb, was invented by others. Edison merely figured out how to commercialize them. His original inventions, like a way to talk to ghosts, were worthless.

The concept behind the light bulb is fairly old. You run enough current through a wire and it will heat up and emit light. However, the wire will quickly burn out. The wire would have to be placed in a vaccuum to last a decent length of time and the best wire materials were too expensive for commercial production. Edison had the resources to test thousands of different materials before he discovered one that was cheap and lasted long enough to be economical to mass produce.

I believe he did invent the screw connection that all screw in light bulbs have

Sold? Edison was known for grabbing and running to the patent office to get his name on so much.

Blackberry is now focusing on the tech for driverless cars and have a testing location here in Stratford Ontario

RIM.. later called Blackberry was always headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, not Guelph.

@@gryph01 lots of office buildings still there when I last drove by Waterloo

@@gryph01 right, thanks, I'm getting my university cities mixed up.

I worked at Parliament when they supplied MP’s with Blackberry phones. They were addicted to them and called them Crackberries.

Ron Samson : I'm not surprised at all. That is "amurican" arrogance at its best.

First to break the sound barrier in an Avro...

Those are excellent. They were made bt the government to give Canadians snippets of Canadian history. The good thing about it was they didn't whitewash the ugly parts

in 1889 Dr Edson patented peanut paste in Canada and In 1895 Dr Kellogg, an American made the first peanut butter ,

LOL, mine too.. My oldest brother Jay (recently retired) was there from the very beginning, and you and I can thank him for writing some of the software every cell phone uses today. But what I like is, even if they don't make phones anymore, my shares benefit from the Royalties every cell phone manufacturer has to pay RIM/Blackberry to use. Sweet..

LOL @ "RIM Job" haha