Career
Although he struggled through high school and got a grade C (which is between 50 - 59%) he managed to get in at UofT in Toronto to become an inventor. His inventions include key contributions to the first electric wheelchairs for quadriplegics, the first microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor which was the precursor to the Canada Deuterium Uranium reactor, the international system for classifying ground-cover snow, aircraft skis, the Weasel all-terrain vehicle, the Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics antenna for the space program, and the Canadarm. Klein worked for forty years as a mechanical engineer at the National Research Council of Canada laboratories in Ottawa (1929–1969).
In 1995, he was inducted to the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame.
