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  2. List of Filipino inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Since ancient times, the people of the Philippine archipelago (Filipino or Pinoy) have accumulated knowledge and developed technology stemming from necessities: from naval navigation knowledge, traditional shipbuilding technology, textile techniques and food processing to Architecture, indigenous arts and techniques, cultural inventions and ...

  3. Gregorio Y. Zara - Wikipedia

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    Gregorio Ynciong Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) [1] was a Filipino engineer, physicist, a National Scientist, and inventor. He was known as the father of videoconferencing [2] for having invented the first two-way videophone. [2] [3] [1] He was also one of the country's pioneer aeronautical engineer having invented an airplane engine ...

  4. Cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippine archipelago's inhabitants, the pre-colonial forebears of today's Filipino people. Among the cultural achievements of the native people's belief systems, and culture in general, that are notable ...

  5. Lourdes J. Cruz - Wikipedia

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    Occupation. Biochemist. Awards. National Scientist of the Philippines. Lourdes J. Cruz (born May 19, 1942) is a Filipino biochemist whose research has contributed to the understanding of the biochemistry of toxic peptides from the venom of fish-hunting Conus marine snails. [1] Throughout the Philippines, she is known as the Sea Snail Venom ...

  6. Science and technology in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Science and technology in the Philippines describes scientific and technological progress made by the Philippines and analyses related policy issues. The main agency responsible for managing science and technology (S&T) is the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). There are also sectoral councils for Forestry, Agriculture and Aquaculture ...

  7. Prehistory of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The prehistory of the Philippines covers the events prior to the written history of what is now the Philippines.The current demarcation between this period and the early history of the Philippines is April 21, 900, which is the equivalent on the Proleptic Gregorian calendar for the date indicated on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription—the earliest known surviving written record to come from ...

  8. Archaeology of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The archaeology of the Philippines is the study of past societies in the territory of the modern Republic of the Philippines, an island country in Southeast Asia, through material culture . The history of the Philippines focuses on Spanish colonialism and how the Philippines became independent from both Spain and the United States.

  9. Lilian Pateña - Wikipedia

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    Lilian Pateña. Lilian Pateña is a Filipino scientist who discovered a breed of calamansi and seedless pomelo and discovered micropropagation which established the banana industry in the Philippines. She is also an inventor of leaf-bud cutting in cassava. She was recognized as one of The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service (TOWNS) in ...