FILIPINO INVENTORS

WITH THEIR INVENTIONS

INVENTION OF
THE INCUBATOR
AND A JAUNDICE
RELIEVING
DEVICE.
DR. FE DEL MUNDO
DEVELOPED A BAMBOO
VERSION OF MODERN
MEDICAL INCUBATOR FOR
RURAL COMMUNITIES
THAT IS LESS
EXPENSIVE AND EASIER
TO ASSEMBLE. IT IS
BEING USED BY
PREMATURE BABIES BORN
BEFORE THE MOTHER’S
37TH WEEK OF
PREGNANCY.
INCUBATOR JAUNDICE RELIEVING
DEVICE
BORN ON
MARCH 8, 1902
IN LIPA CITY,
BATANGAS

HE PASSED AWAY
ON OCTOBER 15,
1978.
HE INVENTED THE
VIDEOPHONE
WHICH WAS THE
FIRST TWO-WAY
ELECTRONIC
VIDEO
COMMUNICATOR,
IN 1955.
VIDEOPHONE
IN 1930,
HE DISCOVERED THE
PHYSICAL LAW OF
ELECTRICAL KINETIC
RESISTANCE, KNOWN AS
THE ZARA EFFECT,
WHICH INVOLVES THE
RESISTANCE TO THE
PASSAGE OF AN
ELECTRIC CURRENT
WHEN CONTACTS ARE IN
MOTION.
THE ZARA EFFECT
LATER, HE INVENTED
THE EARTH INDUCTION
COMPASS, WHICH IS
STILL USED BY PILOTS.

IN 1954, HIS AIRPLANE

ENGINE POWERED BY
ALCOHOL HAD A
SUCCESSFUL TEST
FLIGHT AT THE NINOY
AQUINO INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT.
EARTH INDUCTION COMPASS
HE PATENTED A
TOTAL OF 30
DEVICES
DIOSDADO BANATAO
FAMOUSLY KNOWN AS
THE “FILIPINO
BILL GATES”

BORN ON MAY 26,

1946 IN IGUIG,
CAGAYAN VALLEY.
HE PURSUED HIS
BACHELOR
OF SCIENCE IN
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING AT THE
MAPUA INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY IN
MANILA
AND GRADUATED CUM
LAUDE.
HE ALSO FOUNDED
THREE SILICON
VALLEY-BASED
SEMICONDUCTOR
COMPANIES; MONSTRON,
CHIPS+TECHNOLOGIES
(SOLD TO INTEL IN
1996) INC. AND S3
INC. (THE MOST
PROFITABLE COMPANY
IN THE WORLD IN
1993)
All of his start ups
involved chipset and
graphic accelerators
which rivaled and
beat previously
established brands.
HE DEVELOPED THE FIRST SINGLE
CHIP, 16-BIT MICROPROCESSOR-BASED
CALCULATOR UNDER COMMODORE
INTERNATIONAL.
IN 1981, HE DESIGNED HIS SECOND
INVENTION, WHICH IS THE FIRST 10-MBIT
ETHERNET CMOS WITH SILICON COUPLER
DATA-LINK CONTROL AND TRANSRECEIVER
CHIP UNDER THE COMPANY SEEQ TECHNOLOGY.
HE INVENTED THE WINDOWS
GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR CHIP FOR
PERSONAL COMPUTERS.
GEMINIANO T. DE OCAMPO

BORN ON SEPT.16, 1907

AND DIED SEPT.2, 1987

BIRTHPLACE, MALOLOS
CITY, BULACAN
PHILIPPINES
HE IS KNOWN AS
THE “FATHER OF
MODERN
PHILIPPINE
OPHTHALMOLOGY”
AN INVENTOR WHO
INVENTED THE DE
OCAMPO CORNEAL
DISSECTOR.
DE OCAMPO CORNEAL DISSECTOR
➢ FIRST EYE BANK
AND EYE CLINIC IN
THE PHILIPPINES.
➢ HELPED
ESTABLISHED
PHILIPPINE EYE
RESEARCH
INSTITUTE.
➢ HELPED
ESTABLISHED
PHILIPPINE
OPHTHALMOLOGICAL
SOCIETY
➢ WORKED FOR THE
PASSAGE AND
AMENDMENT OF
R.A NO. 349
CONCERNING THE
DONATION OF EYE
BALLS FOR
CORNEAL
TRANSPLANTATION
➢ WORKED FOR THE
PASSAGE AND
AMENDMENT OF
R.A NO. 349
CONCERNING THE
DONATION OF EYE
BALLS FOR
CORNEAL
TRANSPLANTATION
➢ WORKED FOR THE
PASSAGE AND
AMENDMENT OF
R.A NO. 349
CONCERNING THE
DONATION OF EYE
BALLS FOR
CORNEAL
TRANSPLANTATION
National
Scientist of
the Philippines
1982
ROBERTO DEL ROSARIO

THE INVENTOR OF
THE KARAOKE SING
ALONG SYSTEM
INVENTED HIS
VERSION OF A
KARAOKE MACHINE
BETWEEN 1975 AND
1977
THIS IS DAISUKE INOUE, THE INVENTOR OF
KARAOKE. HE DID NOT PATENT THE MACHINE
BECAUSE HE WANTED TO "TEACH THE WORLD TO
SING". HE EARNED NOTHING FROM THE
BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY HIS INVENTION
HAS SPAWNED AND HAS NO REGRETS. PHOTO IS
OF HIM AND THE VERY FIRST KARAOKE
MACHINE EVER MADE.
TECHNICALLY,
DEL ROSARIO IS NOT THE
FIRST ONE TO CREATE A
KARAOKE MACHINE, BUT HE
IS THE ONE WHO PATENTED
THE INVENTION.
HE DESCRIBED HIS
SING-ALONG SYSTEM
AS 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. THE WHOLE
SYSTEM WAS
ENCLOSED IN ONE
CABINET CASING
THE FIRST KARAOKE
MACHINE