FILIPINO

INVENTIONS AND
DISCOVERIES
 FE DEL MUNDO
• The First Asian to have entered
the prestigious Harvard
University’s School of Medicine.

• She was an Alumna of the

University of the Philippines
College of medicine
 oAn incubator is an
apparatus used to
maintain environmental
conditions suitable for
new born baby.

INCUBATOR oIt is used in pre-term

births or for some ill-full
term babies
 GREGORIO Y. ZARA
• He is a renowned Filipino Engineer and
Physicist.

• A native of Lipa, Batangas.

• Enrolled at the Massachusetts Institutes

of Technology in the United States and
graduated with a degree of BS in
Mechanical Engineering in 1926.
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The two way television telephone or videophone in 1955

patented as a “photo phone signal separator network”
 AGAPITO
FLORES
• The inventor of
Fluorescent Light
which is the most
widely used source of
lighting in the world
today.

• It was the product of

79 years of the
development of the
lighting method that
began with the
invention of Thomas
Edison’s Light bulb
 EDUARDO SAN JUAN
• Filipino who in 1969 worked for Lockheed
Corporation and was the conceptional designer
of the Lunar Rover or the Moon Buggy.

• However, San Juan was not listed as the as the

inventor of the Moon Buggy in American
Scientific Journal.

• It is said that the vehicle was designed and

constructed by a group of space engineers.
LUNAR ROVER OR MOON BUGGY
 DIOSDADO BANATAO
• He is most known for introducing the first
single chip graphical user interface
accelerator.

• Helps develop the ethernet controller chip

• In 1989, he pioneered the local bus concept for

personal computers and in the following year
he developed the First Windows accelerator
chip.
 ROBERTO DEL ROSARIO
• Developed a sing along system in 1975
and patented in 1980s.
• He claimed the right for the invention
of the Sing-Along-System (SAS) that
eventually led to the development of
karaoke
• Roberto del Rosario has patented more
than twenty inventions making him one
of the most prolific Filipino inventor.
Called his sing-along
system “minus one”