SUMMARY OF INVENTIONS

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Ink

Question 2

• 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.

Answer 2

Cartography

Question 3

• 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

Answer 3

Papyrus

Question 4

Functions:
- Metal shaping
- Agriculture
- Milling = to grind grain

Answer 4

Water Mill

Question 5

Function: indicates the time of the day and for the sake of hemicycle, it specifies seasons as well as the time of day

Answer 5

Sundial

Question 6

• 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)

Answer 6

Egyptian Eye Makeup/Kohl

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Printing Press

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Blackpowder

Question 9

Inventor: Alessandro Della Spina
Function or Purpose:
● The ground quartz magnifying lenses could help people with
long and short sight

Answer 9

Eyeglasses/Spectacles

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

Microscope

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

Paper Money

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Hourglass

Question 13

• 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.

Answer 13

LED Light

Question 14

• 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

Answer 14

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner

Question 15

Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell
Function or purpose: Device that converts sound and electrical
waves into audible relays and is used for communication.

Answer 15

Telephone

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Credit Card

Question 17

Inventor: David Gow (1993)
Function or Purpose:
To give a replacement arm to those who lost their arm from an accident, disease or war.

Answer 17

Bionic Arm

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

World Wide Web

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

Wi-Fi

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

Quarantine

Question 21

A device used to determine the cardinal points of the Earth, namely North, South, East and West

Answer 21

Compass

Question 22

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.

Answer 22

Mechanical Clocks

Question 23

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.

Answer 23

heavy plough

Question 24

It was Joseph Swan who invented the first working _____ on
February 3, 1879

Answer 24

light bulb

Question 25

Interconnects the world to share culture and ideas. Started by
ARPA for military purposes.

Answer 25

Internet

Question 26

• 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.

Answer 26

Wig

Question 27

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.

Answer 27

Silk

Question 28

• 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.

Answer 28

Antikythera Mechanism

Question 29

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.

Answer 29

Ship/boat

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Wheel

Question 31

• 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.

Answer 31

Alarm clock/Water clock/Clepsydra

Question 32

Inventor: Guglielmo Marconi
* First long-distance wireless
communication

Answer 32

Transatlantic Telegram

Question 33

It was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. He discovered the Penicillum Notatum

Answer 33

Antibiotics

Question 34

• are synthetic and are made of polymers which are long molecules
• It was invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland in June 1907

Answer 34

Plastics

Question 35

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.

Answer 35

Water gasoline

Question 36

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.

Answer 36

Bamboo Incubator

Question 37

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.

Answer 37

Erythromycin

Question 38

Inventor: Gregorio Zara (1955)
* device that easily enabled distance learning and video conferencing and also proved helpful for the hearing impaired.

Answer 38

Videophone

Question 39

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.

Answer 39

Karaoke

Question 40

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,

Answer 40

16-bit Microchip

Question 41

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

Answer 41

AuREUS

Question 42

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.

Answer 42

Ginhawa Ventilator