Technology is everywhere! If you stop and look around you, you will see at least one invention or innovation within a 10 meter radius. More than half a billion patents have been issued; more than a million patents have been granted to Canadian inventors. Despite this, the National Survey on Scientific Literacy showed that two-thirds of Canadians are unable to name even a single Canadian inventor or any Canadian achievement! Throughout the last century and into the next millennium, the range of Canadian inventions reflects the strength of our great country's economy. Canada is a great country and innovating and inventing is precisely why Canada is on par with high economy countries such as Britain, America, France and more. Coincidentally, many Canadian inventions are in the fields of transportation and communications, while some fields such as medicine and science progress slowly. Other inventions were made to contradict the Canadian climate. Many technological advancements have been made in machinery associated with improving the way resources are extracted, due to the fact that this country is rich in primary resources or commodities such as agriculture, timber, mines and fish. However, as Canada is a rather new nation, many significant achievements have either been built or improved upon, so it is difficult to invent an invention that can be used on a global scale. This is not to say that Canada has not contributed to humanity. On the contrary, with inventions such as the snowmobile, the discovery of insulin and the hockey mask, which are used all over the world and save millions of lives every year. Over the past century, Canadian technology, such as medical treatment, transportation and technology, has experienced a... middle of paper ...... as a result of later insulin research; Characterization of the amino acid structure of insulin became the first synthetic insulin. Additionally, it was produced almost simultaneously at the University of Pittsburgh by Panayotis Katsoyannis and at RWTH Aachen University by Helmut Zahn in Germany in the early 1960s. Likewise, Herbert Boyer invented the first genetically modified synthetic human insulin using Escherichia coli in the laboratory in the late 1970s. Thanks to Frederick Banting and Charles Best, in 1982 Eli Lilly and Company helped by Genentech (founded by Herbert Boyer) went to sell to Humulin: the first commercially available biosynthetic human insulin. The vast majority of insulin we use today is humulin. Thanks to the discovery of insulin by Frederick Banting and Charles Best, we now have better quality insulin to save diabetics..