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Historical Antecedents of S&T in the World and in the Philippines Flashcards

1
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They invented ink 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.

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Ink

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The study and practice of making maps.

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2 Cartography

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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

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2 Cartography

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For writing purposes: Important because it was use for record
keeping (most common)
Inventor/s: Ancient Egyptians

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papyrus

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The Chinese also developed a new process in paper making
which was credited to

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Cai Lun in around 105CE

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

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water mill

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

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sundial

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2000 years old Earthquake Detector: Invented by Chinese
astronomer Zhang Heng in 132 AD.

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doomwatch dragons/seismoscope

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A modern replica of Zhang
Heng’s famous seismoscope is named

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Houfeng Didong

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-used to protect the skin from the sun
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)

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kohl

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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

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printing press

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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.

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blackpowder

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

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Eyeglasses/Spectacles

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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.

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Microscope

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Paper bills were 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 paper money because their devalued coins were
becoming too heavy to carry

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Paper Money

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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

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Hourglass

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Inventor: Shu Han, Zhuge Liang
Function or purpose: is designed to be pushed and
guided by a single
person using two handles to the rear or a sail may be used to
guide the ancient
by wind. The modern user of the lifts
up the handles and
pushes the device forward, using the wheel to lighten the load.
may be
used to transport garden soil.

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Wheelbarrow

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Inventor: James Hargreaves
Function or purpose:
Early machine for turning fibre into thread or yarn

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Spinning wheel

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Inventor: Nick Holonyak 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.

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LED Light
Invention: Light-emitting Diode

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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.

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magnetic resonance imaging scanner

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

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Telephone

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22
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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.

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19 Credit Card

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23
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Inventor: David Gow (1993)
Function or Purpose:
To give a replacement arm to those who lost their arm from an
accident, disease or war.

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Bionic Arm
(Bioprosthetics)

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Inventor: Charles W. Hull (1984)
Function or Purpose:
> turn digital files containing three-dimensional data—whether
created on a CAD or CAM program, or from a 3D scanner—into
physical objects.

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3D Printing

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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.

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2 World Wide Web/
Internet

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Inventor: John O’ Sullivan, Terrence Percival, Diethelm Ostry,
John Deane, Graham Daniels
Function: WiFi is a technology that uses radio waves to provide
network connectivity

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WI-FI

27
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Quarantine, was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni
which mean 40 days.
Quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people
who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become
sick

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QUARANTINE

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

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COMPASS

29
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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

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MECHANICAL CLOCK

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FUNCTIONS:
To turn and break up soil
To bury crop residues
To help control weed growth
the most important element in the agricultural revolution.

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HEAVY PLOUGH

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It is a very simple camera made with two metal parts combined
to form a sealed rectangular box, with a single element
meniscus fixed focus lens on the front and a loading knob on a
side.

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Box Camera

32
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It was Joseph Swan who invented on
February 3, 1879

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Light Bulb

33
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INVENTORS: WRIGHT BROTHERS Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright

It helps you travel long distances in a short amount of time.

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Airplane

34
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Interconnects the world to share culture and ideas. Started by
ARPA for military purposes.

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Internet

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-known as the first writing system. -a system that utilizes word
pictures and triangular symbols which are carved on clay using
wedge instruments. -allowed the Sumerians to keep records
with historical value

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CUNEIFORM

36
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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.

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WIG

37
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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

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Silk

38
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1st Century AD
a “Hero’s Engine”
A steam turbine
Invented by Heron Alexandrinus.
This Invention becomes remarkable in the Industrial Revolution
as Steam Engine

A

Aeolipile

39
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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.

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Antikythera Mechanism

40
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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

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SHIP/BOAT

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Inventor: Mesopotamians
Purpose: To carry more load efficiently without exerting much
effort. are 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
, the ancient Mesopotamians realized that it could also be
applied to othe things such as chariots, wheelbarrows, and
many more.

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Wheels

42
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k one of the most commonly used gadget these days,
but in Ancient era Ctesibius an ancient greek engineer, physicist
and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt
invented the first Alarm Clock or Known as Water Clock during
the Ancient Era.
The water clock 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

A

ALARM CLOCK/Water
Clock/Clepsydra

43
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Inventor: Guglielmo Marconi : First long-distance wireless
communication

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Transatlantic Telegram

44
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It was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. He discovered
the Penicillum Notatum

A

Antibiotics

45
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It was invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland in June 190

s are synthetic and are made of polymers which are long
molecules

A

Plastics

46
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Inventor: Francisco Quisumbing (1931)
sold in the United States
since 1931. has the desired quality of ink flow, it
resisted water and molding, it was not corrosive and it’s quick
drying.

A

Quink Ink

47
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Inventor: Noli Dazo (1937)
used as a generator to energize electronic appliances such as airconditioning unit, television, refrigerator, water pump, and
other gadgets and could even start a vehicle.

A

Water Gasoline

48
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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.

A

Bamboo Incubator

49
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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.

A

Erythromycin

50
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Inventor: Gregorio Zara (1955)
device that easily enabled distance learning and video
conferencing and also proved helpful for the hearing impaired

A

Videophone

51
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Inventor: Eduardo San Juan (1971)

B

Ga battery-powered, four-wheeled rover also used on the moon
in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15,
16, and 17) during 1971 and 1972

A

Luna Rover aka “Moon
Buggy”

52
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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

A

Karaoke

53
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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,

A

16-Bit Microchip

54
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Inventor: Jayme Navaro (2007)
one of the great benefits of converting plastic to fuel is that the
fuel burns cleaner because of a low sulfur content. It is
estimated that the fuel will be 10-20 percent cheaper because of
the low production costs since the raw material is available in
such large quantities.

A

Plastic to diesel converter

55
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Inventor: Aisa Mijeno (2015)
To run the lamp, they will just have to make a salt water
solution. With two tablespoons of salt and one glass of tap
water, the lamp can run for up to eight hours straight

A

Sustainable Alternative
Lighting Lamp (SALt Lamp)

56
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Invented by Alfredo M. Anos Sr. A 3 in 1 fire truck, rescue
vehicle, ambulance.
To help firefighters in their duty and provide first aid to fire
victims

A

ANOS FIRE AMBULANCE
AND RESCUE VEHICLE
(AFARV OR PATRIOT)

57
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Invented by Atoy Llaves. It can travel both in land and water.
To put the country on the global automotive map

A

SALAMANDER
AMPHIBIOUS TRICYCLE

58
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Invented by Danvic Briones. Used for emergency preparedness.
A life vest and survival kit in one

A

RESCUE 72

59
Q

Invented by Ramon Barba. Used to increase mango production.
A mango flowering inducer

A

Mango Flowering Spray

60
Q

Invented by Carvey Ehren Maigue, a student at
Mapua University in the Philippines

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.

A

AuREUS

61
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Dr. Abundio Balgos

, also
known as ReliefVent, is lightweight and much less expensive
compared to imported ventilators. A team of experts from
different fields headed by 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.

A

Ginhawa Ventilator

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A

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