Historical Antecedents In Science And Technology • 1752 – electricity (Tesla)

• 1776 – submarine
▲ Ancient Times • 1783 – hot air balloon
• 500,000 BC – control of fire • 1800 – electricity (Benjamin Franklin)
• 12,000 BC – domestication of animals • 1826 – first photograph
• 8,000 BC – domestication of plants • 1839 – bicycle, rubber
• 7,000 BC – ceramics • 1851 – mechanical refrigeration
• 4,000 BC – copper • 1856 – plastic
• 3,500 BC – cuneiform script, wheeled vehicle, river boat, • 1868 – typewriter
writings in cave, glass • 1876 – telephone
• 3,200 BC – Egyptian hieroglyphs • 1879 – incandescent lamp
• 1,500 BC – Phoenician alphabet • 1895 – cinema, xray
• 1,000 BC – iron • 1885 – gasoline powered automobile
• 700 BC – library • 1903 – world’s first successful airplane
• 580 BC – prediction of solar eclipse • 1904 – electric washing machine
• 490 BC – solar calendar • 1927 – electronic TV and broadcast
• 410 BC – medicine (Hippocrates) • 1945 – penicillin
• 350 BC – Physics, Meteorology (Aristotle) • 1935 – radar
• 280 BC – lighthouse • 1947 – video game
• 170 BC – Mathematics, Geometry (Archemedes) • 1957 – artificial satellite
• 130 BC – Astronomy (Ptolemy) • 1958 – chip
• 105 BC – paper (Cai Lun) • 1971 – microchip
• 1972 – genetic engineering
▲ Middle Ages • 1973 – internet international connection, mobile phone
• 810 – introduced the decimal positional number system • 1976 – personal computer
• 1180 – navigational compass • 1978 – in vitro fertilization
• 1249 – glasses • 1981 – space shuttle
• 1291 – mirror • 1994 – global positioning system
• 1440 – mobile type printing
• 600 CE – wind turbines ▲ Some Filipino Inventors
• 700 CE – gunpowder and ___ • 1600 – yoyo used by natives as a combat weapon against
• 1000 – lenses, eyeglasses Spaniards
• 1206 – toilet • 1920 – Pedro Flores patented and put up yoyo manufacturing
co. in the US
• 1450 – printing (Johannes Gutenberg)
• 1930 – Banana catsup created by Maria Orosa
• 1470 - parachute
• 1941 – medical incubator invented by Dr. Fe Del Mundo
• 1940s – patis was discovered by Ruperta David aka Aling
▲ Modern Ages
Tentay
• 1590 – microscope
• 1949 – erythromycin inveted by Abelardo Aguilar
• 1600 – thermometer (Galileo)
• 1955 – videophone (Gregorio Zara)
• 1608 – telescope
• 1966 – isolated rice breeds (Rodolfo Aquino)
• 1642 – mechanical calculator
• 1972 – 16 bit computer microchips (Diosdado Banatao)
• 1687 – motion (Isaac Newton)
• 1974 – sing-a-long system invented by Roberto Del Rosario
• 1712 – steam engine
• 2000 – mole remover (Rolando Dela Cruz)
• 1751 – modern encyclopedia
• 2005 – anti cancer cream for basal skin carcinoma developed
by Rolando Dela Cruz
• Quick Ink – Francisco Quisumbing
• E-jeepney – noiseless, smokeless
• Filipino-made-train – Engr. Bryan Yuson
• 3 in 1 firetrck (firetruck, rescue, ambulance) – Alfredo M.
Anos Sr.
• Modular Housing System – Edgardo Vasquez
• Super Bunker Formula-L – revolutionary fuel half
composed of water (Rudy Lantano Sr.)
• Solar Powered Balut Maker - incubator for duck eggs