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CBC's <I>Marketplace</I> examines the pros and cons of a new trend in timekeeping. - Television, 3:57
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Dec. 16, 1979
A buyers' guide to digital watches
Television
3:57
After working with wind tunnels in university, Gerald Bull is developing ways to use a gun to launch a satellite. - Television, 4:56
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May 11, 1958
A supersonic scientist
Television
4:56
A critic wonders what the Canadarm has done for us lately. - Television, 3:37
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Jan. 12, 1999
A waste of space?
Television
3:37
<p>Bell Canada's remote northern telephone service facilitates telephone service on airplanes.</p> - Radio, 5:51
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June 12, 1962
Airplane phones keep travellers in touch
Radio
5:51
The telephone is an instant success after inventor Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates it at the 1876 world's fair in Philadelphia. - Radio, 26:57
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July 25, 1975
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson
Radio
26:57
Bell's daughter Marian discusses her father, "the great encourager," on what would have been his 100th birthday. - Radio, 2:25
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March 3, 1947
Alexander Graham Bell's 100th birthday
Radio
2:25
A committee tries to get to the bottom of the existence of Iraq's supergun. - Television, 2:21
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Jan. 15, 1992
British parliament investigates supergun
Television
2:21
The RCMP visits Bull's company headquarters after allegations of dealing arms to an embargoed South Africa. - Television, 1:38
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Dec. 19, 1978
Bull's company raided
Television
1:38
A small church in Quebec holds Bull's funeral after he is shot by an assailant outside his apartment in Brussels. - Television, 1:48
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March 31, 1990
Bull's family mourns his murder
Television
1:48
If the telephone wasn't born in Canada, it was certainly conceived here. In 1874, in Brantford, Ont., inventor Alexander Graham Bell first described the scientific principle that would convey the human voice over wires. By the Second World War, Canadians led the world in talking by telephone. Later they reached out to each other and around the globe with long distance calling, transatlantic connections and predictions for the future.
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Topic spans: 1945-1975
Canada Says Hello: The First Century of the Telephone
Topic
5 television clips
11 radio clips
The Canadarm robot has boosted national pride and showcased Canadian technology for more than two decades. In space, the arm emblazoned with a Canada logo and flag first twitched to life aboard a shuttle in 1981. We look back at the arm grabbing errant satellites, helping fix the Hubble telescope and shaking hands with its robotic cousin, Canadarm2.
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Topic spans: 1979-2001
Canadarm - A Technology Star
Topic
11 television clips
4 radio clips
A month after the arm's first flight, astronaut Richard Truly says a broken wire threatened to curtail testing of the arm. - Radio, 0:51
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Dec. 19, 1981
Canadarm had a 'bothersome problem'
Radio
0:51
Quebec-born inventor Reginald Fessenden sang Christmas hymns in an early radio broadcast. - Television, 6:57
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Oct. 16, 1979
Canadian makes first wireless radio transmission
Television
6:57
How the internet can help ease parents' concerns over placing their kids in day care. - Television, 1:22
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Jan. 25, 2001
Child care and the internet age
Television
1:22
A 1964 documentary describes the more technical aspects of frequencies and jamming signals. - Radio, 4:11
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April 11, 1964
Crowding onto the shortwave band
Radio
4:11
Giant tubes are found on their way to Iraq, and they're believed to be components of the supergun designed by Gerald Bull. - Radio, 6:24
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April 12, 1990
Customs officials discover supergun parts
Radio
6:24
Gerald Bull's company is in receivership in Quebec and bankruptcy in the United States — and Bull himself is headed to jail. - Radio, 7:24
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Aug. 14, 1980
Fined and off to jail
Radio
7:24
A conference on leisure time predicts future generations will use the telephone to command household appliances. - Radio, 1:52
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June 15, 1967
Future phones mean more leisure
Radio
1:52
A Vancouver boy gets a demonstration of GM's free piston power system. - Television, 11:23
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Feb. 23, 1959
GM's 'car of the future'
Television
11:23
Groundbreaking for Telephone Association's pavillion uses TelStar satellite to broadcast ceremony live. - Radio, 1:58
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Aug. 3, 1965
Groundbreaking satellite technology for Expo 67
Radio
1:58
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