- Bruce Nodwell
Bruce Nodwell (
May 12 1914 –January 20 2006 ) was a Canadian inventor who invented the "Nodwell 110", a multi-purpose two-tracked vehicle capable of traversing a wide variety of adverse terrain, includingsand ,mud ,muskeg ,swamp , andsnow .In 1970, he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada , Canada's highest civilian honor, "for his contribution to the opening of the Canadian North through his inventions and development of various types of tracker vehicles". [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1244]External links
* [http://www.abheritage.ca/abinvents/inventors/brucenodwell_biography.htm Alberta Online Encyclopedia biography]
* [http://www.dobmagazine.nickles.com/columns/pulse.asp?article=magazine%2Fcolumns%2F060227%2FMAG_COL2006_FR0080.html Bruce Nodwell, An Inventor With Drive]
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