For Sale - GREAT MARITIME INVENTIONS 1833 - 1950 by Mario Theriault - From the opening of regional patent offices in 1833 until 1950, more than 3,300 patents were granted to clever residents of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Patent agent Mario Theriault of Fredericton presents descriptions and drawings of fifty-five inventions that attest to the ingenuity of Maritimers. Experts at the patent office judged each one to work as expected and to be the first of its kind in the world.

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"Great Maritime Inventions 1833-1950"
by Mario Theriault

94 pages - publihed in 2001 - appears to be first edition.

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“Great Maritime Inventions 1833-1950" by Mario Theriault
On March 20, 1894, J. Roswell Sederquest, of St Stephen registered his patent on the Cycle Runner. The cycle was easy to propel in snow, with a front runner mounted in place of the wheel which actually cleared a track for the back wheel.

Joseph Sutton Clark of St. George came up with the idea in 1900 of a key-opening can and it is still in use today.

Many a housewife silently thanked John E. Turnbull of Saint John for his design in 1843 of the clothes washer with wringer rolls.

In 1871 Andrew James Stewart, Saint John saw a need for a soap which would be more effective in cold water.

Thomas Campbell, Saint John designed in 1880, a combined hot and cold water faucet.

Thomas McAvity Stewart, Saint John worked in 1907 on a vortex system to provide a self cleansing effect in the toilet bowl.

Way back in 1837, Richard McFarlan, Bathurst came up with the idea of a fishway around a mill dam.

In 1839 James Elliott and Alexander McAvity, Saint John patented the “oxygen reservoir for divers”.

Charles C. Barnes, Sackville in 1874 designed the vane pump.

Although many claim to be the inventor of the snow blower, Robert Carr Harris, Dalhousie in 1870 seems to have been the first to conceive the idea of a snow removing machine having a screw feeding the snow to a rotary blower.

In the 1870s, James H. Miller, Fredericton was concerned that ice and snow build-up on railway tracks caused delays so he invented a pair of rail scrapers.

John Mitchell Lyons, Moncton came up with a plan in 1882 for a separable baggage check.

In 1919, Stephen Leonard Chauncey Coleman, Fredericton was the first to propose the use of stabilizer bars on the suspension of motor vehicles.

Robert T. Mawhinney, Saint John was instrumental in 1920 in the development of the trucking industry when he created the first dump truck.

James Thomas Lipsett of Saint John had an idea in 1889 for a rotary ventilator that still is in use today.

The cold weather of February 1917 may have spurred Lawrence St. Clair McCloskey of Boiestown to come up with the thermal windowpane.

L. W. Daman lived in Sackville in 1924 when he designed the pipeless furnace.
<>From the opening of regional patent offices in 1833 until 1950, more than 3,300 patents were granted to clever residents of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Patent agent Mario Theriault of Fredericton presents descriptions and drawings of fifty-five inventions that attest to the ingenuity of Maritimers. Experts at the patent office judged each one to work as expected and to be the first of its kind in the world.
From gum rubber shoes to red pavement, you will find interesting information in “Great Maritime Inventions 1833-1950" by Mario Theriault. You may find that a tinkering ancestor with an idea of the future helped in making significant advances in science. In the days of yesteryear, necessity was often the mother of invention.

All the inventions mentioned in the book are traceable to an actual document available from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office in Hull, Quebec.

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