Great Filipino Inventors Diosdado Banato Diosdado P Banatao

Great Filipino Inventors

Diosdado Banato • Diosdado P. Banatao (born May 26, 1946 in the small barrio of Malabbac in the town of Iguig, Cagayan, Philippines) is a Filipino-American entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry, credited with having developed the first 10 -Mbit Ethernet. CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transreceiver chip, the first system logic chip set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT, and the local bus concept and the first Windows Graphics accelerator chip for personal computers. A three-time start-up veteran, he cofounded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S 3 Graphics. • He finished Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University in 1972

Gregorio Zara • Gregorio Zara — Filipino physicist and aeronautical engineer • Creator of the first videophone ( a forerunner of such video telecommunication applications as Skype, Webcam and videoconferencing) and discoverer of the physical law known as the “Zara Effect. ” • Other Achievements: In 1930, Gregorio discovered the physical law of electrical kinetic resistance (called the Zara Effect). “Kinetic electrical resistance is the resistance to the passage of electric current when contacts are in motion. Permanent electrical resistance manifests itself when contacts are at rest, ” according to the online library Scribd. com in describing the Zara Effect. His other noted achievements include: inventing the earth induction compass (an instrument that is still used today in the aeronautical industry, specifically by pilots); contributing to the design of a robot called Marex X-10 that walked, talked and responded to commands; developing an airplane engine powered by alcohol, and introducing a solar-powered battery, and solar water heater and stove.

Roberto L. del Rosario • Roberto L. del Rosario is a Filipino entrepreneur who served as the president of the Trebel Music Corporation. He is also the patent holder of the Sing Along System, a karaoke system he developed in 1975. • Del Rosario holds a patent to the Sing Along System, a karaoke machine which he developed in 1975. He filed a patent infringement case against a Chinese company before the Supreme Court. The court ruled that the company violated his patent rights over his karaoke machine in 1996. He is recognized as the sole holder of a patent for a karaoke system in the world. However most scholars credits Daisuke Inoue, a Japanese, as the inventor of the karaoke. Inoue invented the karaoke in 1971.

Fe Del Mundo • Fe del Mundo (1911– 2011) was a Filipino pediatrician who was the first woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1936 — over ten years before the school officially began admitting women. She was also the first woman to be named National Scientist of the Philippines in 1980, and founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. • Del Mundo was also known for having devised an incubator made out of bamboo, designed for use in rural communities without electrical power

Eduardo San Juan • Moon Buggy Inventor. Filipinos consider Eduardo San Juan as the inventor of the Lunar Rover, or more popularly known as the Moon Buggy. The Moon Buggy was the car used by Neil Armstrong and other astronauts when they first explored the moon in 1969. Eduardo San Juan, a graduate of Mapua Institute of 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. In 1978, San Juan received one of the Ten Outstanding Men (TOM) awards in science and technology. • San Juan, however, was not listed as the inventor of the Moon Buggy in American scientific journals. It said the vehicle was designed and constructed by a group of space engineers. In Poland, the Moon Buggy is attributed to a Polish inventor. Worse, the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) does not recognize Flores in its roster of outstanding Filipino scientists.

Edward Caro • Space Engineer On June 25, 2002, the provincial government of Cavite awarded Edward Caro a plaque of recognition for his 42 years of service at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States where he helped launch the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission or the Explorer. Caro, 70 and a native of Cavite retired from NASA in 2001. In return, NASA during the same year conferred Caro the Distinguished Science medal, reportedly the highest honor it gives to its employees. (Source: Philippine Star)

Rolando dela Cruz • Filipino inventor Rolando dela Cruz won the gold medal for his “De. BCC” anti-cancer cream at the prestigious International Inventor’s Forum in November of 2005. The “De. BCC” cream, developed from cashew nuts and other local herbs, was chosen over 1, 500 entries as the “most significant invention” of the year. It is a treatment intended specifically for basal skin carcinoma (BSC), which is the most prevalent type of skin cancer worlwide. • Rolando dela Cruz developed in the year 2000 an ingenuous formula that could easily remove deeply grown moles or warts from the skin without leaving marks or hurting the patient. His formula was extracted from cashew nut (Annacardium occidentale), which is common in the Philippines. The formula won for dela Cruz a gold medal in International Invention, Innovation, Industrial Design and Technology Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur in September 2000.

Abelardo Aguilar • Abelardo Aguilar — Filipino physician-scientist • Co-discoverer of Erythromycin (Ilosone®), an effective antibiotic against various respiratory tract and intestinal infections, and certain sexually-transmitted diseases • Fungi and soil bacteria are amazing ecosystems from which key medicinal products have been discovered. For example, the life-saving drug Erythromycin (Ilosone®) is a product of the fungus. Streptomycesery threus, which was first found in soil samples collected in the Philippine Islands by Filipino physician-scientist Abelardo Aguilar in 1949. Abelardo, who was at the time a medical representative for the U. S. drug company Eli Lilly, sent his samples to the company where researchers isolated erythromycin from the metabolic products found in the samples.

Edgardo Vazquez • Vazbuilt Modular Housing System, an invention of Edgardo Vazquez. He came up with a brilliant concept of a prefabricated or ready-to-build housing system. Easy to build and less time to - dow panels, and tied beams, with additional implementation could have solved the country’s housing backlog. • Vasquez had invented this housing system that can be built for a couple of weeks or less. This practical architectural masterpiece can withstand even the most destructive and strongest typhoons and even earthquakes. • The World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva named him its Inventor of the Year and his prizewinning entry is the Vazbuilt system— a system for building houses in less than a month using prefabricated posts and panels. And no one noticed.

Edgardo Vazquez • Vazquez is not an architect or engineer. He is a business graduate who worked for his family’s construction and tile company. “They thought it was the work of a Japanese or a Korean. Nobody thought a Filipino was capable of creating something like this. And when people discover it’s a Filipino product, they think less of it, ” he lamented. • For seven years, he fought in court a giant conglomerate that tried to usurp the rights to his invention. The case was not given prominence because it involved a “Goliath” and he was just a end. And this is what we do to reward a brilliant mind. Only in the Philippines.

Leonardo Gasendo • DR. Leonardo Gasendo, a US-based Filipino chemical engineer, added another accomplishment to his growing list of patented inventions when his latest innovation, the Long Distance Electric Vehicle (LDEV) self-charging battery, was granted U. S. Patent No. 8, 522, 903 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on September 3, 2013. • “To increase its battery travel range to 1, 000 miles without getting exhausted, the LDEV uses two on-board battery chargers (KEC and KER), which convert wheel vibrations and cruising speed into electricity, thereby charging the on-board battery during transit. The physical size of both the KEC and the KER is 3 cu. ft. , and it takes only three minutes to replace the LDEV battery with a fresh one. ” • The LDEV is just one of Dr. Gasendo’s various inventions over the years. Many of his other patented inventions use natural and renewable resources like wind, ocean waves, and even river currents.

Roberto V. Celis : Inventor of Hydrogasifier • Gas saving device and method for dissociating water • The method consists of replacing the exhaust pipe directly below the exhaust manifold of an engine with an expanded exhaust pipe that encases the water dissociation device (9), consisting of a long, spirally formed super heater, preferably stainless steel tubing (7) to have vast area of contact to maximize heat transfer to the passing water. The spirally formed tubing causes the passing water to turbulently move in circular manner, superheat, exert great pressure on the inner wall of the superheater tubing, discharges and expands in the large dissociation chamber (9) into its constituents hydrogen and oxygen gases that are immediately sucked into the combustion chamber of the engine to cause efficient combustion of the fuel, reduce emission, add power and speed, increase mileage and release oxygen. • Celis said that when he perfected the development of the “Hydrogasifier” as an antipollution device, it turned out also as an engine enhancer, increasing power of the vehicle and at the same time cutting down fuel consumption.

Daniel Dingel • Daniel Dingel was a Filipino engineer who claimed to have invented a “hydrogen reactor” able to power a water-fuelled car. • Dingel says he began working on his hydrogen reactor in 1969, and claims to have used the device to power his 1996 Toyota Corolla. Dingel explains that his invention splits producing hydrogen from water in an onboard water tank and does not produce any carbon emissions. However, he has never revealed the secret to his invention. In an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dingel said that he would willing to reveal the secret of his invention if the buyer would hire 200 Filipinos and their families. • Dingel is known as a vocal critic of Filipino government officials and scientists who have refused to support his invention. The Philippines' Department of Science and Technology, in turn, has since declared his invention “a hoax ”.