Random Canadian Factoid No 2 - The quartz clock

Since tidbit is clearly wrong, Mr Not Anonymous, I'll steal the word used by Cranium in their classic game instead!

Todays Canadian contribution to the world - the quartz clock.

Quartz Clocks: From the Timeline of the Quartz Watch: "In 1927, Canadian-born Warren Marrison, a telecommunications engineer, was searching for reliable frequency standards at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Building on earlier work in piezoelectricity, he developed a very large, highly accurate clock based on the regular vibrations of a quartz crystal in an electrical circuit" - the first quartz clock.

This is not an excuse to blame Canada if you are late for work tomorrow...