FAMOUS FILIPINO & FOREIGN SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS

FILIPINO:

“PERFECTO DE LEON” “BALISONG”

PERPECTO DE LEON popularized balisong making during the

early 1900s, and he is dubbed as THE FATHER OF BALISONG.
Balisong is a folding pocket knife with two handles counter-rotating
around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within
grooves in the handles.

JOSE IGNACIO PAWA LANTAKA (CANON)

JOSE IGNACIO PAWA is a Filipino general who joined the Katipunan, a

secret society that spearheaded the 1896 Philippine Revolution
against the Spanish Empire and inventing a lantaka for the defense of
filipino. Lantaka were used by Moro soldiers in the Moro Rebellion
against U.S. troops in the Philippines. They were also used by the
Filipinos during the Philippine Revolution, this time copied from
European models and cast from church bells.
 NARCISO MOSUELA KALAN DI ULING
NARCISO “Tata” MOSUELA is not an engineer, mechanic nor a
mathematician. In fact, he did not even finish high school due to poverty.
He has received citations from different categories, Such as for excellence,
entrepreneurship and invention. And one of the inventions is Kalan di
uling an old and traditional model of a modern gas stove that was used by
the Filipinos in cooking their meals during the olden times. Its name
“ulingan” was derived from the Filipino term “uling” which means
“charcoal”.

FOREIGN:

William Le Baron Jenney (who invented a first SKYCRAPER)

William Le Baron Jenney was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on
September 25, 1832, was an American architect and engineer who
is known for building the first skyscraper in 1884.
 Antonio Pigafetta Salakot
was an Italian scholar and explorer. He joined the expedition to the
Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan. He was the one who
design and invent on what we called salakot, that filipino benefit for
he’s invention. Salakót is a traditional lightweight headgear from the
Philippines used for protection against the sun and rain.

Stephan Farffler MANUMOTIVE CARRIAGE(Tricycle)

Stephan Farffler was born 1633 in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany. He was a
German watchmaker of the seventeenth century whose invention of a
manumotive carriage in 1655 is widely considered to have been the first self-
propelled wheelchair. The three-wheeled device is also believed to have been
a precursor to the modern-day tricycle and bicycle.

IVAN O. ALCANTARA