PHILIPPINE TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS

INVENTION INVENTOR YEAR DESCRIPTION ANTECEDENT

INVENTED
 Single-chip Diosdado Banatao 1981 10-Mbit Ethernet While working,
CMOS with silicon he developed the first
coupler data-link system logic chip set
control and for IBM’s PC-XT and
transreceiver chip. the PC-AT, the local
bus concept and the
first windows Graphics
accelerator chip for
personal computers.
 Medical Fe del Mundo 1941 An incubator Fe del Mundo is
Incubator (isolette) is an apparatus known for having an
used to maintain incubator made of
environmental bamboos that was
conditions suitable for a designed in rural
neonate (newborn communities without
baby). It is used in pre- electrical power. Her
term births or for some study leads to the
ill full-term babies. invention of an
There is an additional improved incubator
equipment used to that saved countless
evaluate and treat sick of premature infants
neonates. around the world.
 Fluorescent Agapito Flores No specic year A tubular electric Early in his life, he has
Light lam coated with a become an apprentice
fluorescent material on in a machine shop. He
its inner surface which trained at a vocational
contains mercury vapor school in Tondo,
whose bombardment Manila to become an
electrons from the eelectrician After
cathode provides tinkering with glass
ultraviolet light that tubes, Flores was able
to make them give off
white light.
 Two way Gregorio Y. Zara 1955 It is a device that Two-way
Television allows two people to television telephone is
Telephone or see each other on a the first prototype of
Videophone television while talking all calling video
using the telephone. devices that we know
today.
 Rescue 72 Danvic Briones 2011 A wearable bag with Briones was
survival kit and tool kits inspired to develop
that doubles as a life the Rescue 72 after
vest. It can carry up to witnessing the wrath
30 even 50 pounds of of Typhoon Ondoy
personal belongings. wherein many
Filipinos died.
 Lunar Rover or Eduardo San Juan 1971 The Lunar Roving It is invented to
Moon Buggy Vehicle (LRV) is a battery- carry astronauts,
powered four moo four- equipments and
wheeled rover used on samples in more
the moon in the last three easier and faster way.
missions of the American
Apollo program (15, 16,
and 17) during 1971 and
1972
 Who: Dr. 1949 Erythromycin is an In 1949 Dr.
Erythromycin Abelardo Aguilar. antibiotic useful for the Abelardo B. Aguilar, a
treatment of a number of Filipino scientist, sent
bacterial infections. This some soil samples to
includes respiratory tract his employer Eli Lilly.
infections, skin infections,
chlamydia infections,
pelvic inflammatory
disease, and syphilis. It
may also be used during
pregnancy to prevent
Group B streptococcal
infection in the newborn,
as well as to improve
delayed stomach
emptying.
 Karaoke Roberto del 1975 A device that plays Technically, the
Rosario instrumental karaoke sing along
accompaniments for a system is indeed a
selection of songs to filipino invention.
which the user sings Because of Roberto
along and that records del Rosario in 1975
the user's singing with the patented it. Karaoke
music was created out of
lazines and to provide
entertainment.