What is Joseph-Armand Bombardier?
[[File:Armand Bombardier.jpg|right|thumb|Joseph-Armand Bombardier]] '''Joseph-Armand Bombardier''' (April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[inventor]] famous for inventing the [[snowmobile]]. In 2000, Joseph-Armand Bombardier was honored by the [[government of Canada]] with his image on a [[List of people on stamps of Canada|postage stamp]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=2266912&rec_nbr_list=2266912|title=Joseph-Armand Boobardier: Getting Around in the Winter|work=Library and Archives Canada|access-date=2013-04-27|archive-date=2012-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307093419/http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=2266912&rec_nbr_list=2266912|url-status=dead}}</ref>He died at 57 years of age. ==Childhood== Joseph-Armand was born in 1907 in Valcourt, Quebec. As a child he loved to take things apart and put them back together. He was very good at building mechanical things. He built his first moving toy at the age of 13. His father had to hide the family car from him because he liked to take apart and re-build the motor. To keep him away from the family car, his father gave him an old car that didn't work. Joseph-Armand fixed the motor, and put it on old sleds and created the first snow vehicle. When he was 17 years old he convinced his father to let him quit college and become a mechanic. He continued to study mechanics and [[electrical engineering]] at night school. ==Inventions== His first [[patent]] was for a sprocket wheel and track system in 1937, this system would help him to make the first snowmobile the B7. These first snowmobiles were used by doctors, veterinarians, innkeepers and funeral directors to get around in the winter. Bombardier went on to design bigger snowmobiles that would carry up to 12 people. During the War, he made snowmobiles and armoured tracked vehicles for the Canadian Government. <