SUMMARY OF INVENTIONS Flashcards
Invented by combining soot from wood smoke and animal fat, thickened with gelatin from skins or different chemicals to produce inks of different colors. It must withstand the elements of nature and tamper proof.
Ink
- The study and practice of making maps.
- Anaximander was the first of the ancient Greeks to draw a map of the known world and as such he is considered to be one of the first cartographers.
Cartography
- Inventor/s: Ancient Egyptians
- For writing purposes: Important because it was use for record keeping (most common)
The Chinese also developed a new process in paper making
which was credited to Cai Lun in around 105CE
Papyrus
Functions:
- Metal shaping
- Agriculture
- Milling = to grind grain
Water Mill
Function: indicates the time of the day and for the sake of hemicycle, it specifies seasons as well as the time of day
Sundial
- used to protect the skin from the sun (it was believed to repel flies and ward off infections, among other things)
- offer protection against evil (eyes without makeup were thought to be vulnerable to the evil Eye)
Egyptian Eye Makeup/Kohl
Inventor: Johannes Gutenberg
Function or Purpose:
* To address the need for publishing books that would spread information to many people at a faster rate
* Also made works accessible to individuals who could not even write
Printing Press
Inventor: Ancient Chinese Alchemist
* Around 850 AD, ancient Chinese alchemist were experimenting with potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur, as they were trying to find a potion for immortality but ended up creating an explosion. It was initially used for fireworks before used in warfare.
* Later named as Gunpowder in the Middle Ages.
Blackpowder
Inventor: Alessandro Della Spina
Function or Purpose:
● The ground quartz magnifying lenses could help people with
long and short sight
Eyeglasses/Spectacles
Inventor: Zacharia Janssen
Function or purpose: Humans can see smallest things as wide as
a hair, suddenly we saw a new world of living things in our water in our food and etc.
Microscope
It was first used by the Chinese, who started carrying folding money during the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907) — mostly in the form of privately issued bills of credit or exchange notes. They made this because their devalued coins were becoming too heavy to carry.
Paper Money
Inventor: Liutprand (French Monk - 8th Century AD)
Function or Purpose:
* Used to measure the passage of time
* It was ideal for ocean travel because the bobbing
waves didn’t affect its accuracy
Hourglass
- Invention: Light-emitting Diode
- Inventor: Nick Holonyak invented the first visible ____ (color red) in 1962
- Function / Purpose: It is a semiconductor device made up of gallium arsenide phosphide that emits visible light when an electric current passes through it. The output can range from red to blue-violet according to its wavelength.
LED Light
- Inventor: Raymond Vahan Damadian
- Function or Purpose: Radiologic way of forming images of the anatomy and physiological processes of the human body in both health and disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner
Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell
Function or purpose: Device that converts sound and electrical
waves into audible relays and is used for communication.
Telephone
The idea of this came to Frank McNamara in 1949 while he was having dinner at a restaurant in New York City. When it was time to pay the bill, McNamara realized he had forgotten his wallet. McNamara negotiated his way out of washing dishes to pay for his dinner by signing for it instead and promising to pay the restaurant back.
Credit Card
Inventor: David Gow (1993)
Function or Purpose:
To give a replacement arm to those who lost their arm from an accident, disease or war.
Bionic Arm
Inventor:Tim Berners Lee
Function or Purpose: It is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet.
World Wide Web
Inventor: John O’ Sullivan, Terrence Percival, Diethelm Ostry, John Deane, Graham Daniels
Function: It is a technology that uses radio waves to provide network connectivity.
Wi-Fi
was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni which mean 40 days. This separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
Quarantine
A device used to determine the cardinal points of the Earth, namely North, South, East and West
Compass
The earliest medieval European clockmakers were Catholic
monks. Medieval religious institutions required clocks because they regulated daily prayer- and work-schedules strictly, using various types of time-telling and recording devices, such as water clocks, sundials and marked candles, probably in
combination.
Mechanical Clocks
FUNCTIONS:
To turn and break up soil
To bury crop residues
To help control weed growth
The invention and widespread adoption of this was the most important element in the agricultural revolution.
heavy plough
It was Joseph Swan who invented the first working _____ on
February 3, 1879
light bulb
Interconnects the world to share culture and ideas. Started by
ARPA for military purposes.
Internet
- Worn for health and wellness rather than for aesthetic purposes.
- Used to protect the shaved heads of the wealthy Egyptians from the harmful rays of the sun.
- Considered cleaner than natural hair.
Wig
naturally produced by silkworms.
the Chinese were the ones who developed the technology to
harvest the silk and process it to produce paper and clothing.
Silk
- An ancient Greek analogue computer and orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance.
- Could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games
- It is a complex clockwork mechanism composed of at least 30 meshing bronze gears.
Antikythera Mechanism
INVENTOR: Ancient Egyptians PURPOSE/INVENTION: To transport and fighting ships, and were in use long before western ships that included such features; used as trade vessels, by explorers, to transport cargo, and as battleships.
Ship/boat
Inventor: Mesopotamians
Purpose: To carry more load efficiently without exerting much
effort. Used to move something easier as there is less friction involved when pushing the object.
How it was invented at that time: Initially used as a pottery wheel, the ancient Mesopotamians realized that it could also be applied to other things such as chariots, wheelbarrows, and many more
Wheel
- Invented by Ctesibius
- was invented with the purpose of tracking time.
- Ctesibus made a system of dropping peddles on a gong to make a sound which is the first alarm clock. The dropping peddles
were set to end at a specific time.
Alarm clock/Water clock/Clepsydra
Inventor: Guglielmo Marconi
* First long-distance wireless
communication
Transatlantic Telegram
It was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. He discovered the Penicillum Notatum
Antibiotics
- are synthetic and are made of polymers which are long molecules
- It was invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland in June 1907
Plastics
Inventor: Noli Dazo (1937)
* used as a generator to energize electronic appliances such as air conditioning unit, television, refrigerator, water pump, and other gadgets and could even start a vehicle.
Water gasoline
Inventor: Fe del Mundo (1941)
* 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.
Bamboo Incubator
Inventor: Abelardo Aguilar (1949)
* used to treat certain infections caused by bacteria in the respiratory tract including pneumonia, bronchitis, legionnaires disease (a type of lung infection) and pertussis (a serious infection that can cause severe coughing) and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) and other skin infections. Generally, it works by stopping the growth of the bacteria.
Erythromycin
Inventor: Gregorio Zara (1955)
* device that easily enabled distance learning and video conferencing and also proved helpful for the hearing impaired.
Videophone
Inventor: Roberto del Rosario (1976)
* a handy, multi-purpose, compact machine that incorporates an amplifier speaker, one or two tape mechanisms, an optional tuner or radio, and a microphone mixer with features to enhance one’s voice, such as the echo or reverb to simulate an opera hall or a studio sound.
Karaoke
Inventor: Diosdado Banatao (1989)
* allowed computer users to use graphics for commands and not the usual typed commands in older computers. It has allowed data processing to be a little faster using very little space,
16-bit Microchip
The _____ system is an evolution for walls/windows, and uses technology synthesized from upcycled crop waste to absorb stray UV light from sunlight and convert it to clean renewable electricity. Invented by Carvey Ehren Maigue, a student at Mapua University in the Philippines
AuREUS
The locally designed portable ventilator called Ginhawa, also known as ReliefVent, is lightweight and much less expensive compared to imported ventilators. A team of experts from different fields headed by Dr. Abundio Balgos had come together to build and provide a cost-effective, safe, and portable ventilator for ICU patients that can be used by a child or an adult.
Ginhawa Ventilator
