Chapter VI Flashcards
A product of indigenous knowledge perfected by man
Indigenous Science
product or process resulting from the continuous pursuit of indigenous science
Indigenous Technology
This is a toy consisting of an axle connected to two disks and a string looped around the axle. It is played by holding the handke (string) by inserting one finger into a knot at its free end. The americans mass produced this.
*The inventor of this toy is Pedro Flores
YOYO
This equipment was invented by Dr. Fe del Mundo, the first asian student at the Harvard University’s school of medicine. She made this device out of two kaundry baskets which were placed one inside the other. This tool was purposely invented to regulate the body temperature of newborn babies.
Medical Incubator
Dr. Abelardo Aguilar discovered this antibiotic, produced by the bacterium Streptomcyes erythreus found in the soil from his own province Ilo-Ilo.
He sent this to his employer in the U.S. to separate the strain but unfortunately did not get the credit for the discovery.
Erythromycin
Ruperta David, who was popularly known as Aling Tentay was the woman behind the discovery of this condiment. She accidentally discovered this in the 1940s when she noticed that some of the salted fish that she stored in a jar turned into fragments and these fragments turned into liquid.
Patis or Fish Sauce
After discovering tomato catsup, Maria Orosa y Ylagan focused on creating another flavor of catsup. Filipinos love to use this condiment for every fried food served on the table. Orosa was also the brain behind the creation of other food products.
Banana Catsup
Due to the increasing incidence of cancer, a Filipino scientist, named Rolando de la Cruz developed a cream from cashew nuts and other local herbs to treat basal skin carcinoma which is considered to be the most prevalent type of skin cancer all over the world.
This cream won him a gold medak award in the International Inventor’s Forum
Anticancer Cream
For a much faster computer works, Diosdado Banatao developed the first single chip graphical user interface accelerator. This chip allows the computer usres to make graphical presentation using graphics for commands.
16-bit Microchip
Another invention was made by Rolando de la Cruz in 2000. This is called mole remover which is a cream formulated to remove warts and moles on the skin.
Mole Remover
Who invented the Yoyo
Pedro Flores
Invented the Medical incubator
Fe Del Mundo
discovered the Erythromycin
Dr. Abelardo Aguilar
invented the patis or fish sauce
Ruperta David (Aling Tentay)
Discovered the Banana catsup
Maria Orosa y Ylagan
