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Flores who unfortunately didn’t finish high school
Agapito Flores fluorescent lamp
because of poverty. Despite his poverty, he hasn’t lost
hope of his ambitions and plans. He then took a
vocational electric course that brought him a job in a
machine shop. Out of curiosity, he conducts an
experiment about light and its common uses typically
at night, a kind of light that shines like the daylight.
Because of Agapito Flores, the world has become
brighter at night.
Gregorio Zara nvented a two-way television
Gregorio Zara Videophone
telephone, or videophone, patented as a “photo
phone signal separator network.” Zara, a physicist,
invented a device that makes it possible for two
persons to see each other on a television while
talking on the telephone as early as 1954.
In Taytay, Rizal—under the business name Trebel
Roberto Del Rosario Karaoke
(Treb is "Bert" spelled backwards and El is for his
wife)—del Rosario manufactured harpsichords and
the OMB, or One-Man-Band, a piano with a built-in
synthesizer, rhythm box, and bass pedals that can all
be played at the same time. He also developed and
patented a singalong machine using "minus one"
technology (originally on cassette tapes) in which
vocals are subtracted from extant instrumental
tracks.Del Rosario is one of several people who are
associated with the invention of a karaoke machine.
 Eduardo San Juan, a graduate of Mapua Institute of
Eduardo San Juan Moon buggy
Technology (MIT), 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
Dingel said he began working on his hydrogen reactor
Daniel Dingel Hydrogen reactor
in 1969, and claimed to have used the device to
power his 1996 Toyota Corolla. Dingel explained that
his invention splits producing hydrogen from water in
an onboard water tank and does not produce any
carbon emissions. However, he never revealed the
secret to his invention
Dr. Abelardo was testing samples of soils from his
Dr. Abelardo Aguilar Erythromycin
backyard and isolated micro-organisms – a bacteria
that lead to the development of the Antibiotic called
Erythromycin.Back then, Dr. Abelardo Aguilar was
working for a U.S Pharmaceutical company Eli Lily Co.
– a global company based in Indiana U.S.A founded by
a Pharmaceutical Chemist and veteran of the
American Civil War. The Filipino scientist sent a soil
samples to his employer Eli Lily Co., and the company
manages to isolate the Erythromycin from the
metabolic products of a strain of Streptomyces
Erythreus found in the samples sent by Dr. Aguilar.

In 1996, Rudy Lantano Sr., a revolutionary fuel half-

Rudy Lantano Sr. Alco Diesel, LAN
composed of water. The mix burns faster and emits
Gas, and the Super
Bunker Formula L pollutants, 95 percent less than those released to the
 air by traditional fuel products. The inventor said his
invention is a result of blending new ingredients and
additives with ordinary oil products through agitation
and mixing, which is a very safe process.

After finishing his master's degree, Banatao worked

Diosdado Banatao Single-chip graphical
with different technology companies such as
user interface
accelerator the National Semiconductor, Intersil, and Commodore
International where he designed the first single chip,
16-bit microprocessor-based calculator. In 1981, he
developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with
silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip
while working in Seeq Technology. He was also
credited for the first system logic chip
set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT; the local bus
concept and the first Windows Graphics accelerator
chip for personal computers.

Flores had played with these toy yo-yos as a child—

Pedro Flores Yo-yo
they were called bandalores at the time—and felt
there might be a market for the toy in the U.S.
In 1928, Flores started the Yo-Yo Manufacturing
Company in Santa Barbara. Flores began making yo-
yos by hand for neighborhood children, but soon,
James and Daniel Stone of Los Angeles financed
machinery for the mass their production. Within a
year, Flores was selling 300,000 yo-yos annually. On
July 22, 1930, Flores trademarked the term "Yo-Yo."
Eventually, Donald F. Duncan Sr., who founded the
Duncan Toy Company in 1929, took notice of the
 popularity of yo-yos. He bought the rights to the
trademark and company from Flores that same year
for $750,000.

She invented an incubator made of bamboo In a bid

Fe Del Mundo Incubator
to help families in rural communities without
electricity, 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. Made of different sizes, the baskets were
“placed one inside the other.” She would then put hot
water bottles all around and between the baskets to
regulate the body temperature of babies. “I put a
little hood over it and attached oxygen for the baby,”
she said. “We had to do with whatever was
available.” However, we were not able to find any
photo of the incubator (or know where its remains lie
today).
It was reported that it was del Mundo’s objective of
making inventions that are inexpensive and can be
reproduced by people who have limited access to
medical centers.

Francisco quisumbing went back to the Philippines

Francisco Quisumbing Quink ink
after World War II but was unable to organize the
Philippine Ink Corporation under the Japanese
Reparations Program because of too much
government intervention. Quink, which was sold in
 the US from 1931, is claimed to stand for 'Quisumbing
Ink', but there is no reliable evidence to support this.
Parker state instead that the name is an amalgam of
"quick and ink". However Parker did license the
manufacture of Quink in the Philippines, for that
market, and the bottles were labelled as such. This,
together with the name coincidence, may have been
the source of the rumour

The VAZBUILT system is practical and cost-effective. It

Edgardo Vasquez Vazbuilt
does not require special skills or heavy equipment,
which allows for easy assembling
and dismantling of components for expansion and
home improvements. Due to the simple construction
requirement, a VAZBUILT house takes less time to
build with lesser workforce. This is a system for
building fire-, termite-, typhoon- and earthquake-
proof houses in less than a month using prefabricated
posts and panels.
Such a system called Vazbuilt is reportedly capable of
building within weeks a house with prefabricated
materials that can withstand typhoons and
earthquakes.