COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Activity No. 7 in
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (SCIE 101)

Fact or Fiction

Name:ELLIANA DENISE C. ALCALA Score:

Schedule: MWF – 1:30 – 2:30 PM Date:
Directions: Make a research on the following Filipino inventions listed in the table below.
Decide whether the given inventions is a fact or fiction. Fill out each cell by the required
information. The first row was done for you.

Topic Fact Fiction Decision

1. M-16 rifle - Eugene Stoner and L. - the term “armalite” was derived FICTION
James Sullivan created M-16 from the name of Armando Malite
2. Bamboo In a bid to help families in rural Japanese created the bamboo FACT
communities without electricity, incubator for the babies.
incubator
del Mundo invented a bamboo
incubator in 1941. According to
a biographical report on del
Mundo by the Philippine Center
for Investigative Journalism, the
physician's makeshift incubator
was composed of two native
laundry baskets made of
bamboo.
3. Karaoke The world's first karaoke Del Rosario is the first one who FACT
machine, the Juke-8, was built conceptualized the karaoke.
by Japanese inventor and
musician Daisuke Inoue in
1971. But it is Filipino inventor
Roberto del Rosario who holds
the machine's patent. He
developed the Karaoke Sing-
Along System in 1975
4. Fluorescent lamp About forty years after Agapito, Flores is the one who FICTION
Becquerel's theories, on May invented the fluorescent lamp
19, 1896, Thomas Edison filed
for a patent for a fluorescent
lamp. ... In 1927, he co-
patented an experimental
fluorescent lamp with Friedrich
Meyer and Hans Spanner.
MYTH AND FACT. Agapito
Flores was born in Guiguinto,
Bulacan, the Philippines, on
September 28, 1897.
5. Erythromycin Abelardo Aguilar isolated a Eli lily Co. is the one who invented FACT
strain of bacteria which lead to the Erythromycin
 the development of
Erythromycin, a broad-spectrum
antibiotic used universally
today.
6. Moon buggy It is popularly called the Moon According to the hoax, Filipino FICTION
buggy, a play on the term dune engineer Eduardo San Juan invented
buggy. Built by Boeing, each the Lunar Roving Vehicle, more
LRV has a mass of 460 pounds commonly known as Moon Buggy,
(210 kg) without payload. that was used for NASA's Apollo
missions from 1971 to 1972. To be
fair to San Juan, he was a talented
engineer and visionary whose name
was used unabashedly to further a
hoax