George Klein (inventor)

George Johann Klein, was a Canadian inventor who is often called the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century. Although he struggled as a high school student, he eventually graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering. His inventions include key contributions to the first electric wheelchairs for quadriplegics, the first microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor which was the precursor to the CANDU reactor, the international system for classifying ground-cover snow, aircraft skis, the Weasel all-terrain vehicle, the STEM antenna for the space program, and the Canadarm.

15 August 1904

Born on the same birth day (15 August): Benedict Kiely • Carlos PenaVega • Gilles Ménage • Janusz Zajdel • Napoleon • Rose Marie • Stylianos Gonatas • Wolfgang Hohlbein

Born in the same month (August 1904): Achille Varzi • Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia • Charles "Buddy" Rogers • Christopher Isherwood • Clifford D. Simak • Helen Kane • Henry Iba • Idel Jakobson • Jean Dessès • Joe Hulme • Joe Tate (footballer) • John Hay Whitney • Kenneth V. Thimann • Leho Laurine • Mary Burchell • Maurice Wilks • Max Factor Jr. • Ralph Bunche • Secondo Campini • Wendell Meredith Stanley • Werner Forssmann • William Primrose • Witold Gombrowicz