When Bob Bird began offering forensic engineering services under the Arcon banner in 1965, he likely didn't think that 60 years later, his innovation would be in its 3rd generation of employee ownership and continuing to provide benchmark quality forensic engineering services to its clients.

In honour of that decision, and as we look forward to Arcon's 60th anniversary in 2025, we're going to look back over the past 60 years and share with you other Canadian innovations. Each week over the next year we'll highlight some relatively well-known and some relatively unknown Canadian "innovations".

Let's kick off this series with something from 1965, the year of Arcon's genesis - and yes, it's a little geeky but we are an engineering firm after all!

The 735 kV Power Line
The international standard for long-distance electricity transmission, invented by Jean-Jacques Archambault in Quebec, where the world's first 735,000-volt line was commissioned in 1965.