Filipino Inventions and Discoveries
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This document discusses several notable Filipino inventions and inventors from the 20th century. It describes inventions such as the incubator by Fe del Mundo, the videophone by Gregorio Y. Zara, the fluorescent lamp by Agapito Flores, artificial coral reefs by Angel Alcala, and the karaoke machine by Roberto del Rosario. It also mentions Eduardo San Juan's contributions to the design of the lunar rover used in the Apollo missions. Overall, the document highlights how Filipino scientists and inventors have made numerous contributions to technology and economic progress through their innovative works and discoveries.
Filipino Inventions and Discoveries
- 1. Science and Technology in the Philippines -Filipino Inventions and Discoveries Page 1
- 2. Scientists greatly help in the economic development of a country. In the Philippines, we have a number of renowned scientists and technologists whose exemplary works and discoveries have contributed to the progress of different industries. Page 2
- 4. 1. Fe del Mundo Invention: Incubator She was an alumna of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine. The first Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard University's School of Medicine. Page 4
- 5. Invention: Incubator An incubator is an apparatus used to maintain environmental conditions suitable for newborn baby. It is used in pre-term births or for some ill full-term babies. Page 5
- 6. Gregorio Y. Zara Invention: Videophone He was the inventor of the first videophone.A native of Lipa, Batangas And enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, and graduated with a degree of BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1926. He is a renowned Filipino engineer and physicist. Page 6
- 7. Invention: Videophone (1955) The two-way television telephone or videophone in 1955 patented as a "photo phone signal separator network." Page 7
- 8. Agapito Flores Invention: Flourescent Lamp He is the inventor of the fluorescent lamp, which is the most widely used source of lighting in the world today. The fluorescent lamp reportedly got its name from Flores.. The fluorescent lamp, however, was not invented in a particular year. It was the product of 79 years of the development of the lighting method that began with the invention of the electric light bulb by Thomas Edison. Page 8
- 9. Daniel Dingel Invention: Water-powered car Daniel Dingelstarted working on a water-powered car and prototype in 1969. His hydrogen reactor uses electricity from a 12-volt car battery to transform ordinary tap water with salt into deuterium oxide or heavy water. Dingel’s car has never been patented and commercialized because of what he suspects as an anti- Dingel car conspiracy by multinational oil companies. Page 9
- 10. Eduardo San Juan Invention: Lunar Rover Filipinos consider Eduardo San Juan as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy. The Moon Buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969. He worked for Lockheed Corporation and conceptualized the design of the Moon Buggy that the Apollo astronauts used while in the moon. As a NASA engineer, San Juan reportedly used his Filipino ingenuity to build a vehicle that would run outside the Earth's atmosphere. He constructed his model using homemade materials. Page 10
- 11. San Juan, however, was not listed as the inventor of the Moon Buggy in American scientific journals. It said the vehicle was designed and constructed by a group of space engineers. In Poland, the Moon Buggy is attributed to a Polish inventor. Page 11
- 12. Diosdado Banatao Invention: GUI (Graphical User Interface) Banatao is most known for introducing the first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator that made computers work a lot faster and for helping develop the Ethernet controller chip that made Internet possible. In 1989, he pioneered the local bus concept for personal computers and in the following year developed the First Windows accelerator chip. Intel is now using the chips and technologies developed by Banatao. Page 12
- 13. Angel Alcala Invention: Artificial Coral Reefs Angel Alcala is behind the invention of artificial coral reefs used for fisheries in Southeast Asia. Page 13
- 14. Julian Banzon Julian Banzon researched methods of producing alternative fuels. He experimented with the production of ethyl esters fuels from sugarcane and coconut, and invented a means of extracting residual coconut and invented a means of extracting residual coconut oil by a chemical process rather than a physical process. Page 14
- 15. Marc Loinaz Invention: One-chip video camera The inventor of the one-chip video camera was Marc Loinaz, a Filipino resident of New Jersey who works with Lucent Technologies. He was featured in the July 1999 issue of Discover Magazine. The 1-chip camera uses a single computer chip to process the colors the camera sees. Most videos for a Web site used with a 1-chip camera mainly because the video is compressed in one- chip camera so it transmits more quickly. Page 15
- 16. Roberto del Rosario Invention: Karaoke (1975) He developed a sing along system in 1975 and patented it in the 1980s called his sing-along system "Minus-One", now holds the patent for the device now commonly known as the "karaoke machine". Roberto del Rosario, a Filipino, is claiming the right for the invention of the Sing- Along-System (SAS) that eventually led to the development of Karaoke, a Japanese term for "singing without accompaniment". Page 16
- 17. Narciso Mosuela Invention: Superkalan The Superkalan is a stove that can be powered by any substance that burns. Narciso Mosuela of the Filipino province of La Union invented it and received the Best Design award from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in 1987. Among the substances that can power the Superkalan are wood, paper, dried dung and leaves, corncobs and coco shells. Mosuela has also invented a functional rice thresher. Page 17
- 18. Juan Salcedo Jr. Developed “Enriched Rice,” a rice variety fortified with vitamin B1, which helps prevent beriberi. His discovery helped reduce the cases of beriberi in the Philippines and in other countries. Page 18
- 19. Ramon Barba Horticulturist Ramon Barba is known for inventing techniques to promote crop flowering. His work, which has helped develop the local mango industry, is the only invention in Southeast Asia that the World Intellectual Property Organization recognizes. Barba’s other researches, meanwhile, focus on tissue culture of bananas, sugarcane, and other horticultural crops to develop methodologies in plant physiology and plant breeding. Page 19
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