Page 1

Science and
Technology in the
Philippines

-Filipino Inventions and

Discoveries
 Page 2

Scientists greatly help in the economic

development of a country. In the
Philippines, we have a number of
renowned scientists and technologists
whose exemplary works and discoveries
have contributed to the progress of
different industries.
 Page 3

20th Century
Inventions
and
Discoveries
 Page 4

1. Fe del Mundo
Invention: Incubator

The first Asian to have

entered the prestigious
Harvard University's
School of Medicine.
She was an alumna of the
University of the Philippines
(UP) College of Medicine.
 Page 5

Invention: Incubator

An incubator is an apparatus
used to maintain
environmental conditions
suitable for newborn baby.

It is used in pre-term births or

for some ill full-term babies.
 Page 6

Gregorio Y. Zara
Invention:Videophone He is a renowned Filipino
engineer and physicist.

He was the inventor of the first

videophone.A native of Lipa,
Batangas
And enrolled at the
Massachusetts Instituteof
Technology (MIT) in the United
States, and graduated with a
degree of BS in Mechanical
Engineering in 1926.
 Page 7

Invention: Videophone
(1955)

The two-way television

telephone or
videophone in 1955
patented as a "photo
phone signalseparator
network."

Agapito Flores
Invention: Flourescent Lamp
Page 8
He is the inventor of the
fluorescent lamp, which is the
most widely used source of
lighting in the world today. The
fluorescent lamp reportedly
got its name from Flores.. The
fluorescent
lamp, however, was not
invented in a particular year. It
was the product of 79 years of
the development of the
lighting method that began
with the invention of the
electric light bulb by Thomas
Edison.
 Page 9

Daniel Dingel
Daniel Dingelstarted working
Invention: Water-powered car
on a water-powered car and
prototype in 1969. His
hydrogen reactor uses
electricity from a 12-volt car
battery totransform ordinary
tap water with salt into
deuterium oxide or heavy
water.

Dingel’s car has never been

patented and
commercialized because of
what he suspects as an anti-
Dingel car conspiracy by
multinational oil companies.
 Page 10

Filipinos consider Eduardo San Juan

Eduardo San Juan as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or
Invention: Lunar Rover more popularly known as the Moon
Buggy. The Moon Buggy was the car
used by Neil Armstrong and other
astronauts when they firstexplored
the moon in1969.
He worked for Lockheed
Corporation and conceptualized
the design of the Moon Buggy that
the Apollo astronauts used while in
the moon. As a NASA engineer, San
Juan reportedly used his Filipino
ingenuity to build a vehicle that
would run outside the Earth's
atmosphere. He constructed his
model using homemade materials.
 Page 11

San Juan, however, was not listed as the inventor of the Mo

Buggy in American scientific journals. It said the vehicle w
designed and constructed
by a group of space engineers. In Poland, the
Moon Buggy is attributed to a Polish inventor.
 Page 12

Diosdado Banatao
Banatao is most known for
Invention: GUI (Graphical introducing the firstsingle-chip
User Interface) graphical user interface
accelerator that made
computers work a lot faster
and for helping develop the
Ethernet controller chip that
made Internetpossible.

In 1989, he pioneered the

local bus concept for
personal computers and in
the following yeardeveloped
the First Windows accelerator
chip. Intel is now using the
chips and technologies
developed by Banatao.
 Page 13

Angel Alcala
Invention: Artificial Coral
Reefs
Angel Alcala is
behind the invention
of artificial coral
reefs used for
fisheries in Southeast
Asia.
 Page 14

Julian Banzon

Julian Banzon researched

methods of producing
alternative fuels.
He experimented with the
production of ethyl esters
fuels from sugarcane and
coconut, and invented a
means of extracting residual
coconut and invented a
means of extracting residual
coconut oil by a chemical
process rather than a
physical process.
 Page 15

Marc Loinaz The inventor of the one-chip

Invention: One-chip video camera was Marc
video camera Loinaz, a Filipino resident of
New Jersey who works with
Lucent Technologies. He was
featured in the July 1999 issue
of Discover Magazine.

The 1-chip camera uses a

single computer chip to
process the colors the
camera sees. Most videos for
a Web site used with a 1-chip
camera mainly because the
video is compressed in one-
chip camera so it transmits
more quickly.
 Page 16

Roberto del Rosario He developed a sing along

Invention: Karaoke (1975) system in 1975 and
patented it in the1980s
called his sing-along system
"Minus-One", now holds the
patent for the device now
commonly known as the
"karaoke machine".
Roberto del Rosario, a
Filipino, is claiming the right
for the invention of the Sing-
Along-System (SAS) that
eventually led to the
development of Karaoke, a
Japanese term for "singing
without accompaniment".
 Page 17

Narciso Mosuela
Invention:Superkalan The Superkalan is a stove that
can be powered by any
substance that burns. Narciso Mosu
of the Filipino province of La Union
invented it and received the Best
Design award from the Food and
Agricultural Organization (FAO) in 1
Among the substances that can
power the Superkalan are
wood, paper, dried dung and leav
corncobs and coco shells. Mosuel
has also invented a functional rice
thresher.
 Page 18

Juan Salcedo Jr.

Developed “Enriched
Rice,” a rice variety
fortified with vitamin
B1, which helps prevent
beriberi. His discovery
helped reduce the cases
of beriberi in the
Philippines and in other
countries.
 Page 19

Ramon Barba
Horticulturist Ramon Barba is
known for inventing techniques
to promote crop flowering. His
work, which has helped develop
the local mango industry, is the
only invention in Southeast Asia
that the World Intellectual
Property Organization
recognizes.
Barba’s other
researches, meanwhile, focus
on tissue culture of
bananas, sugarcane, and other
horticultural crops to develop
methodologies in plant
physiology and plant breeding.
 Page 20

REFERENCES: http://goodnewspilipinas.com/2009/10/04/the-
pride-of-philippine-science/
http://inventors.about.com/od/filipinoscientists/Filipino_Inventors
_and_Filipino_Scientists.htm
http://pinoysline.blogspot.com/2012/01/ang-galing-pinoy.html

http://travelman1971.hubpages.com/hub/Filipino-Inventions-
and-Discoveries-that-Shaped-the-World

http://www.google.com.ph/imgres?imgurl=http://i2.ytimg.com/vi
/YwX9qqpgHPk/hqdefault.jpg%3Ffeature%3Dog&imgrefurl=http:/
/www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DYwX9qqpgHPk&h=360&w=480
&sz=22&tbnid=wbf8rKcPv5gkjM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=127&prev=/sear
ch%3Fq%3Dsuperkalan%2Bby%2Bnarciso%2Bmosuela%26tbm%3Di
sch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=superkalan+by+narciso+mosuela&u
sg= 0OCiuOEb5M8e4rdJYCH6zFRtV_k=&docid=RUKLBVg_Zbnyw
M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=izKYUc6HK9CciAeC74BQ&ved=0CEUQ9QEwB
Q&dur=1832
 Page 21

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Daniel_Dingel's_Water_Fue
l_Cell

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041108/biz.htm
http://www.ehow.com/list_7296213_latest-philippine-
inventions.html

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-96667366/stock-photo-artificial-
coral-reef-in-the-ocean.html?src=same_artist-96667363-1

http://techieblogazine.blogspot.com/2010/11/ang-galing-
pinoy-hi-tech-inventions.html
 Page 22

End…