ESPINAS, JOSEPH DANIEL O BSAT 1-1

Module 4 STS

PERIOD STATE OF CONTRIBUTIO SCIENCE CULTURE IMPLICATIO

S&T N OF THE & N
DURING PERIOD TO THE PRACTICES/SOCIE OF S& T
THE DEVELOPMENT TY’ AND
PERIOD OF S&T S NORMS DURING SCIENCE
THE CULTURE
PERIOD OF
EACH
PERIOD
TO THE
PRESENT
AMERICA Science The Philippines was Science was inclined Under
N and already civilized during the to agriculture, food American
PERIOD technology Spanish period. The processing, medicine rule, the
were more educational requirements and pharmacy during advancemen
modernized of the Spaniards are one the American era. t of science
and of these goals. The Because of the free and
prioritized Filipinos were too rigid. trade policy with the technology
relative to Because of the United States that in the
the Americans, research was nurtured an economy Philippines
American also applied by early geared towards continued.
era than the Filipinos and they took a agriculture and trade, On July 1,
Spanish scientific way of modern not much emphasis 1901, the
period, technology. Americans was put on the Bureau of
concentratin are the reasons why growth of industrial Government
g mainly on Filipinos in the early technology. There is Laboratories
tropical Spanish period are still a lack of basic was
disease using modern knowledge required established
research, technologies. Until for the industries of by the
agriculture, automatic technology has the country, a lack of Philippine
food grown, Filipinos learn the funding for Commission,
processing, scientific way of things experimental work which was
forestry, and space. These were and a minimum put under
medicine the early inventions that budget for scientific the
and were introduced to the research, as well as Department
pharmacy. Philippines. low wages for of Interior.
But, due to • Transportat government The
the free ion ships employed scientists. Laboratorio
trade was Municipal,
agreement contributed founded
between the by during the
United Spaniards Spanish
States and and early colonial
the Americans period, was
Philippines, during ww2 replaced by
industrial • Television the Bureau.
technology • Machines The study of
was not • Radio tropical
very • Television diseases
focused. • Telephone and
• Tape laboratory
recorder projects
• X-rays were
discussed by
• Xray
the Bureau.
scanner
The Bureau
• Smart
of
phones
Government
• Philippines Laboratories
has was
evolved replaced by
because of the Bureau
the new of Science
technology on October
26, 1905,
and the
National
Research
Council of
the
Philippines
was
established
on
December 8,
1933. The
Bureau of
Science
became the
Philippines'
primary
research
center until
the Second
World War.