Polistra and friends salute Canada and Trudeau’s excellent action.
And to customize the tribute, linking to a series I did back in August on Reginald Fessenden, Canada’s own radio pioneer. Fessenden was unstoppably creative, working on a wide range of problems, always strictly scientific, always coming up with unique ways to deal with every detail of the solution. He grew up in Canada but spent most of his career in the US because Canada’s tech sector wasn’t developed enough to offer technicians, funding and employment. US electrical tech was already well established by 1900 in upstate NY, NJ and Massachusetts.
Judging by what I’m reading from Canadians now, the brain drain persists. If Fessenden had been induced to stay at home, he could have spawned a tech center as Bell and Edison and Hollerith did here. It sounds like Canadians are still heading south toward already available resources.
Alexanderson Alternators, prerequisite to Fessenden’s version
Fessenden’s alternators (his most commercially successful product)
Polistra's Mill 