Technological Supremacy of Canada

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Technology is an innovation invented by humans to adapt and resolve human conflicts in an attempt to make human lives easier. At the beginning of twentieth century, Global powers were competing for the technological power but Canada appeared in front of the world with the best inventions that earned it its reputation that it has today. The twentieth century was an era of inventions and many vital inventions were devised in Canada that revolutionized human life and survival. Technological inventions like the Pacemaker and Java - computer language - were the power of Canada that defined and advanced the Canadian medical and computer fields. Another Canadian technological innovation, the Blackberry in 1999 enriched the economic, job and mobile sector making Canada an economic hub. These technological innovations advanced human index parameters, gaining Canada recognition from around the world.
In the early 1950s, the first ever amazing invention of an external cardiac Pacemaker was developed by Dr. John Hopps. It was large (about 30 cm long, and several centimetres high and wide), the pulses were generated by vacuum tubes and the entire unit was powered by 60 Hz household current.(The Pacemaker) Hopps was an electric engineer appointed by the National Research Council of Canada in 1941 after training at the University of Manitoba as an electrical engineer. Pacemakers helped with the pumping of blood by sending electric signals but it occupied too much space. John Hopps was recognized as “The Father of Biomedical Engineering”. "The financial cost of the pacemaker was minimal" which made the pacemaker even popular and appealing as a weapon to treat problems in rhythm of the heart. (Drew)
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...lackberry has highly enriched and developed Canadian economy and job sector. Blackberry has been a very significant contributor to Canadian economy’s progression, employment and mobile advancement that defined and presented a powerful and technological Canada among the world.
Canada’s Technological inventions such as Pacemakers and Java (computer language) popularized and recognized Canadian identity and potential on world stage. On the other hand, the expansion of Blackberry lifted the economic situation of Canada providing jobs to thousands of people in Canada. Twentieth Century brought lot of recognition to Canada from war to the technological inventions that popularized Canadian identity and potential. Technology is an innovation but technology has been innovated the Canadian identity and recognized its potential on world stage since the start of the century.

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