What you’re looking at above is the rotary snowplow, a piece of railroad snowfighting equipment with a large circular set of blades on its front end that rotate to cut through the snow on the track ahead of it. The rotary was invented by Toronto, Ontario, Canada dentist J.W. Elliot in 1869, however he never built a working model or prototype. Continue reading for more inventions you probably didn’t know came from Canada.
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