Famous Foreign Scientists
Famous Foreign Scientists
TELEPHONE
A
telephone,
or
phone,
is
a
telecommunications
device
that
permits two or more users to conduct a
conversation when they are too far
apart to be heard directly. A telephone
converts sound, typically and most
efficiently the human voice, into
electronic
signals
suitable
for
transmission via cables or other
transmission
media
over
long
distances, and replays such signals
simultaneously in audible form to its
user.
PENICILLIN
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BAROMETER
Pedro Flores
Inventor of YO-YO one of the most popular toy
in the world.
The word yo-yo is a Tagalog word, the native
language of the Philippines, and means 'come
back.' In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a
weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their
version was large with sharp edges and studs
and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for
flinging at enemies or prey. People in the United
States started playing with the British
bandalore or yo-yo in the 1860s.
It was not until the 1920s that Americans first
heard the word yo-yo. Pedro Flores, a Philippine
immigrant, began manufacturing a toy labeled
with that name. Flores became the first person to mass-produce yo-yos, at
his small toy factory located in California
YO-YO
Fe del Mundo
Inventor of Incubator=Fe del Mundo, the first
Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard
University's School of Medicine, is also credited
for her studies that led to the invention of
incubator and jaundice relieving device. Del
Mundo, an International Pediatric Association
(IPA) awardee, is an alumna of the University of
the Philippines (UP) College of Medicine. Since
1941, she has contributed more than 100
articles to medical journals in the U.S.,
Philippines and India. In 1966, she received the
Elizabeth Blackwell Award, for her "outstanding
service to mankind". In 1977, she was bestowed
the Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding public service.
INCUBATOR
Gregorio Zara
Famous Filipino Scientist. Gregorio Zara famous Filipino scientist Gregorio Y Zara.
Filipino scientist Gregorio Y. Zara (D.Sc.
Physics) invented, made improvements to,
or discovered the following: invented the
two-way
television
telephone
or
videophone (1955) patented as a "photo
phone
signal
separator
network";
discovered the physical law of electrical
kinetic resistance called the Zara effect
(around 1930); invented an airplane
engine that ran on plain alcohol as fuel
(1952).
VIDEOPHONE
FELIX MARAMBA
Felix Maramba built a coconut oil-fueled power
generator. He also is the developer of one of
the world's most profitable biogas systems.
Other Achievements:
Felix Maramba is the president of the
Philippine Association of Flour Millers, Inc.
Felix Maramba wrote: Biogas and Waste
Recycling, The Philippine Experience.
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