This article is about the Canadian inventor. For his son, the Canadian member of Parliament, see T. Franklin Ahearn. For the member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, see Thomas Ahearn (Australian politician).
Thomas Ahearn in 1903
Thomas Ahearn, PC (June 24, 1855 – June 28, 1938) was a Canadian inventor and businessman. Ahearn, a native of Ottawa, Canada West, was instrumental in the success of a vast streetcar system that was once in Ottawa, the Ottawa Electric Railway, and was the first chairman of Canada's Federal District Commission in 1927. He held several patents related to electrical items and headed companies which competed for decades with Ottawa Hydro as providers for electricity in Ottawa. Ahearn co-founded the Ottawa Car Company, a manufacturer of streetcars for Canadian markets.
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useful to "warm rooms, boil water, cook victuals...". Canadian inventor ThomasAhearn filed patent #39916 in 1892 for an "Electric Oven," a device he probably...
and continued in competition with private suppliers, chiefly those of ThomasAhearn and his companies, until the 1950s. In 1882, Electric lighting in Ottawa...
mass-market service began in earnest in 1881, when Ottawa entrepreneur ThomasAhearn installed Canada's first water-powered generator at the Chaudiere Falls...
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the earliest such devices was patented by Canadian inventor ThomasAhearn in 1892. Ahearn and Warren Y. Soper were owners of Ottawa's Chaudiere Electric...
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Light Company. ThomasAhearn, born in LeBreton Flats, also became an important figure in the early years of electricity in Ottawa. Ahearn had been a telegraph...
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invents the zipper. 1892: Léon Bouly invents the cinematograph. 1892: ThomasAhearn invents the electric oven. 1893: Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel engine...
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the Sun" Robert Sparr Teleplay by : Dean Riesner From a Story by : ThomasAhearn & Morton Grant May 17, 1963 (1963-05-17) Stu pursues a dangerous female...
would remain a staple means of public transportation until 1891 after ThomasAhearn founded the Ottawa Electric Railway Company. This private enterprise...
hanging in Canada. A vast public transportation network was started when ThomasAhearn founded the Ottawa Electric Railway Company in 1893, replacing a horsecar...
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