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Margaret Fehr |
Born 1961 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She was forced to quit
school after grade eight to help support her family. This did not stop her
from learning and educating herself. She started working as a chambermaid
and has even worked as a butcher. She learned and then taught ballroom
dancing. She is currently and inventor and is skilled in product
development, production, marketing and sales. She has invented and developed
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Wendy Murphy
Inventor |
Born November 29. ???/ President of Wendy W. Murphy Enterprises Inc.
Wendy designed and developed the world’s first evacuation stretcher for
infants, the WEEVACS6. The idea for this amazing stretcher came to Wendy as
she witnessed the 1985 earthquake rescues in Mexico. The device is made of
lightweight aluminum and fire resistant materials. The first stretchers were
sold to the Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, in 1987. The WEEVAC Line of
innovative equipment is used by hospitals, nursing homes and chronic long
term care facilities. The WEEVACS' won the Manning Award for Innovation and
the National Research Council of Canada’s Award for Outstanding
Innovativeness in Medical Device Technology. ORTECH International presented
Wendy with the Joseph Flavelle Award. Wendy is also proud to be a busy
single mother with one son.
Sources: Kidsdomain : Inventions (accessed October 2011)
WEEVAC web site : personal information provided by Wendy Murphy |
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Ellanore Jane Parker |
SEE - Medical Professionals - Nurses |
Susan Olivia Poole
Indigenous inventor |
 née Davis. Born
April 18, 1889 Devil's Lake, North Dakota, U.S.A. Died October 10, 1975
British Columbia. She grew up on the White Earth
Indian Reservation
in Minnesota, U.S.A. She was a talented pianist and she studied music
at Brandon College in Manitoba. She married Delbert Poole and with the
birth of her 1st child in 1910 she combined traditional native design and modern
technology to produce her invention of the Jolly Jumper for pre toddler babies.
She originally used a broom handle for a suspension bar, a cloth diaper for
a harness and she had a blacksmith create a soft-action steel spring. Olivia
used this device for each of her seven children. The family settled in British Columbia
in 1942 and she was soon making her jumper for her grandchildren. In the 1950's she and her
husband began manufacturing her invention which would become a must for all
young families. In 1957 she had the Jolly Jumper patent no. 568 775. By 1959 they had a manufacturing factory in North Vancouver
and were sending supplies of their product throughout North America, Great
Britain, and Australia. The portable device which could be attached to any
door way in any home was improved over the years to accommodate health
concerns in growing babies.
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Rachel Zimmerman |
This inventor began her career when she
was only twelve year old. She invented a computer program which uses
Blissymbols. These are the symbols which allow non-speaking people to
communicate by pointing to specific symbols on a pare or board. Using a
touch-sensitive board connected to a computer the message is translated into
a language that allows the originator to communicate to people beyond view
of the Bliss board. Rachel began her work for a school science fair and it
ended up in a World Exhibition of Achievement of Young inventors in
Bulgaria!! She is also the winner of a YTV Achievement Award for Innovation.
The system can now be used in many different languages and voice output has
been added. |
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