MODERN TIMES
Modern Times
During the 19th century onwards demanded that more
goods be produced at a faster and easier.
Machines that required animals to operate thus be
upgraded.
Food processing and medicine posed some of the more
significant challenges since health was of great concern.
Faster and more comfortable means to communicate and
compute should be developed to establish connections
between and among nations.
Significant inventions, include:
a. Pasteurization – Louis Pasteur
b. Petroleum Refinery – Samuel M. Kier
c. Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
d. Calculator
HISTORY AND PHILOSPHY OF
SCIENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES
EARLY AGES (STONE AGE AND
IRON AGE
∙ Early settlements can be traced around 50,000 years
ago in Palawan and Batangas.
∙ Early simple tools or weapons of stone flakes.
∙ Techniques for sawing, drilling, and polishing hard
stones for about 40,000 years.
EARLY AGES (STONE AGE AND
IRON AGE
∙ 3,000 BC when pottery was flourished.
∙ Metal tools and implements (copper, gold, bronze,
and, later, iron) during the second or third century B.C.
to the tenth century A.D.
∙ Weaving cotton, smelting iron, making pottery and
glass ornaments, and agriculture by the first century
A.D.
CHINESE ERA
∙ Built boats for coastal trade by the tenth century A.D.
(porcelain, beeswax, cotton, authentic pearls, iron pots,
iron needles, and tin, etc.)
∙ Regular trade relations with the Chinese had been well
established during the tenth to the 15th AD.
∙ Hindu-Buddhist, Malay-Sanskrit, and Arab-Muslim Cultural
and technological influences spread to the Philippines.
SPANISH ERA
• Beginnings of modern science and technology
• Mining, jewelry making, agriculture,
winemaking, cloth weaving.
• Learned to make and use modern artillery, the
system of writing and weights and measures.
• Established schools, hospitals and started
scientific research.
SPANISH ERA
• Religious orders in the conquest and
colonization of the archipelago.
• Economic trade (Galleon Trade) adopted by
the colonial government, reduction of
agriculture, boom in shipbuilding.
• Reduccion as the new government, convents,
collection of tax.
SPANISH ERA
• System of education including
pharmacy and medicine, natural
sciences.
• University of Sto. Tomas was founded.
AMERICAN REGIME
∙ Science and technology in the Philippines
advanced rapidly
∙ Extensive public education system; the granting
of scholarships in science and engineering.
∙ Higher professional education; industrial and
vocational education.
AMERICAN REGIME
∙ Proliferation of private schools.
∙ University of the Philippines was established.
∙ Bureau of Science and other science
organizations and agencies.
∙ Remaining primarily as an exporter of crops and
raw materials and an importer of American
manufactured goods.
PHILIPPINE INVENTIONS
Despite being considered a developing country,
the Philippines also contributes to the global
advancement of science and technology.
The Philippines is known to be one of the most
vulnerable countries in terms of natural disasters.
Many of the Filipinos' discoveries and inventions were
built from indigenous materials or created to adapt to
the harsh tropical environment.
PHILIPPINE INVENTIONS
UPGRADING OF VEHICLES
Examples:
• conversion of American military jeeps used in World War II into
jeepneys.
• Innovation of a sidecar to a motorcycle, transforming it into a
tricycle to accommodate more passengers.
• SALAMANDER AMPHIBIOUS TRICYCLE was invented that can cross
not only flooded streets but also rivers and lakes.
• Dominic N. Chung & Lamberto Armada, with Chief designer
Victor Llave, innovates this vehicle to solve a flooded street.
PHILIPPINE INVENTIONS
SALT LAMP
One of the significant needs in the Philippines, as a developing nation, is
electrification.
Filipinos have resorted to using candles and kerosene lamps, but they
carry certain risks as they are fire hazards. Solar power is also welcome
development but too expensive for ordinary Filipinos.
AISA MIJENO, a young Filipina, was able to invent a lighting system that
utilizes a material abundant in the Philippines – saltwater.
She invented the Sustainable Alternative LighTING (SALt) LAMP. It is an
environment-friendly light source that runs on saltwater. Safer as it poses no
risk of fire and emits no toxic gases.
Aside from People live from coastal areas, it may also benefit those from
far-flung barrios because they can make their saltwater lamp by mixing two
tablespoons of salt and a glass of tap water.
PHILIPPINE INVENTIONS
MEDICAL INCUBATOR
DR. FE DEL MUNDO, a Filipino pediatrician and the first Asian woman
admitted into Harvard Medical School, devised a medical incubator
made from indigenous and cheap materials that did not run on
electricity.
The incubator was made by placing a native laundry basket inside a
bigger one. Hot water bottles were inserted between the baskets to
provide warmth and a makeshift hood to allow oxygen circulation.
Its purpose is to maintain conditions suitable for a newborn, usually
pre-term babies.
PHILIPPINE INVENTIONS
MOSQUITO OVICIDAL/LARVICIDAL TRAP SYSTEM
In 2010, the Department of Science and
technology-Industrial Technology Development
Institute (DOST-ITDI) introduced the Mosquito
Ovicidal/larvicidal trap system, also known as the
O.L. trap. This trap system I.S. made of natural
ingredients lethal to mosquito but safe for
humans and the environment.
PHILIPPINE INVENTIONS
E-JEEPNEY
A significant innovation that changed the transportation industry in
the Philippines. The diesel-powered jeepney produces large quantities
of black smoke. It is usually a significant contributor to noise pollution
due to its primitive exhaust system.
To counter these disadvantages, the e-jeepney was developed.
This modern type of vehicle utilizes electricity instead of the more
expensive diesel. It is environment-friendly since it does not emit any
smoke and noise.