Roberto del Rosario is Filipino Inventor and the president of the Trebel Music Corporation. He is the inventor of the Karaoke Sing-Along System, in 1975. The Karaoke Sing Along System is a Japanese expression for singing along to a famous record with the vocals removed. He described his sing-along system as a handy multi-purpose compact machine which incorporates an amplifier speaker, one or two tape mechanisms, optional tuner or radio and microphone mixer with features to enhance one's voice, such as the echo or reverb to stimulate an opera hall or a studio sound, with the whole system enclosed in one cabinet casing. Roberto del Rosario has patented more than twenty inventions making him one of the most prolific Filipino inventors. Besides his famous Karaoke Sing Along System Roberto del Rosario has also invented: ·

• Trebel Voice Color Code (VCC) ·
• piano tuner's guide ·
• piano keyboard stressing device ·
• voice color tape

Noted Patents: ·

• Patent No. UM-5269 dated 2 June 1983 for audio equipment and improved audio equipment commonly known as the sing-along system or karaoke ·
• Patent No. UM-6237 dated 14 November 1986 audio equipment and improved audio equipment commonly known as the sing-along system or karaoke

DANIEL DINGEL

Daniel Dingel is a Filipino inventor who invented the Water-Powered Car or Water-Powered Hoax. These designed cars run thru the use of water. The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that Daniel Dingel built a water-fueled automobile engine as early as 1969. Dingel has no patents and many members of the science community feel that his water-powered car is a hoax. However, Daniel Dingel has demonstrated his car without any technical papers or explanation as to how it works. And if it does work, a water-powered car would be a fantastic invention.

Claims:

\Daniel Dingel claims his engine has a chamber that breaks apart water molecules to produce combustible hydrogen. Electricity from a 12-volt car battery to use to split the water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen components, with the hydrogen then used to power the car engine.

Water-Based Fuels:

American inventors, Rudolf Gunnerman, Stanley Meyer and the researchers of the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been researching water-based fuels.

Ernesto Domingo has been recognized for his outstanding accomplishments in the study of the nature of schitosome granuloma and its role in hepatosplenic disease; the epidemiology and control of Hepatitis B in the Philippines; and the Pathophysiology, clinical behavior and treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Filipinos.

Doctor Pedro Escuro is Filipino scientist who was born on August 2, 1923. He made waves by developing rice breeding in the country that led to the development, isolation, and release of nine Seed Board rice varieties for their commercial release. The Pedro Escuro rice varieties are: Milpal 4, HBD-2, Azmil 26 and C-22 and C-18, C4-63, C4-137, C-168 and C-12.

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. Genetics and Plant Breeding
• B.S.A.(Agronomy), University of the Philippines,Los Banos 1952
• Ph.D. (Genetics and Plant Breeding), University of Minnesota, 1959

Awards:

• Pedro Escuro has been awarded two Presidential awards from the Philippines, the 1967 Presidential Plaque of Merit for outstanding accomplishments in rice improvement and the Rizal Pro Patria award for his outstanding contribution to rice breeding and genetics.
• In 1973, Pedro Escuro received the University of the Philippines Distinguished Professorial Award in agriculture, and the D. Sc. honoris causa in 1974.
• In 1974, Pedro Escuro won the Ayala award in agricultural science.

Agapito Flores was born on September 28, 1897 in Guiguinto, Bulacan, Philippines. He was trained at a vocational school to become an electrician when he worked as an apprentice in a machine shop and later moved to Tondo, Manila. It has been reported that Agapito Flores received a French patent for a fluorescent bulb and that the General Electric Company bought Flores' patent rights and manufactured and sold his fluorescent bulb (making millions from it). However, all the inventors named above and more predate Agapito Flores' possible work on any fluorescent bulb. According to Dr. Benito Vergara of the Philippine Science Heritage Center, "As far as I could learn, a certain Flores presented the idea of fluorescent light to Manuel Quezon when he became president. At that time, General Electric Co. had already presented the fluorescent light to the public." The Agapito Flores controversy continues - Agapito Flores has been acclaimed by some as being the inventor of the first fluorescent lamp. However, the dates are all wrong for this being possible. The following points have been taken from "The History of Fluorescent Lights"

• In 1857, the French physicist Alexandre E. Becquerel who had investigated the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence, theorized about the building of fluorescent tubes similar to those made today.
• American, Peter Cooper Hewitt (1861-1921) patented (U.S. patent 889,692) the first mercury vapor lamp in 1901. The low pressure mercury arc lamp of Peter Cooper Hewitt is the very first prototype of today's modern fluorescent lights.
• Edmund Germer (1901 - 1987) who invented a high pressure vapor lamp, also invented an improved fluorescent lamp. In 1927, Edmund Germer co-patented an experimental fluorescent lamp with Friedrich Meyer and Hans Spanner.

Fluorescent Lamp

Thomas Edison discovered the electric light and Nikola Tesla invented the fluorescent lighting. But the fluorescent lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores, a Filipino electrician. Americans helped Filipino politicians to develop it for worldwide commerce.

Pedro Flores was born in Vintar ilocos Norte, Philippines. He was the first person to have manufactured the yo-yo in the United States. The word yo-yo is a Tagalog word, the native language of the Philippines, and means 'come back.' In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey. People in the United States started playing with the British bandalore or yo-yo in the 1860s.

• In the year 1915, he immigrated to the United State and later studied of Laws at the University of California Berkeley and the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Pedro Flores never completed his law degree and began his yo-yo business while working as a bellboy. ·
• In 1928, Flores started his Yo-Yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara. James and Daniel Stone of Los Angeles financed machinery for the mass production of yo-yos. ·
• On July 22, 1930, Pedro Flores trademark registered the name Flores Yo-Yo. Both his yo-yo factories and the trademark were later acquired by the Donald Duncan Yo-yo Company. ·
• It was not until the 1920s that Americans first heard the word yo-yo. Pedro Flores, a Philippine immigrant, began manufacturing a toy labeled with that name. Flores became the first person to mass-produce yo-yos, at his small toy factory located in California. Duncan saw the toy, liked it, bought the rights from Flores in 1929 and then trademarked the name Yo-Yo.

Dr. Ceferino Follosco was born on February 3, 1931. He is a Ph. D. (honoris causa) in Mechanical, Electrical and Agricultural Engineering. This Academician is being recognized for his outstanding works and accomplishments in the field of engineering (agricultural mechanization and automotive), technology innovation, public sector governance embracing a wild field of creative approaches in reengineering and bureaucracy, formulating and implementing laws and programs for small and medium enterprises and S&T administration, including technology transfer, R&D, Engineering and Science Education, Institutional Building, etc. He also pioneered the formation of foundations involved in promoting quality, productivity, S&T, industry clustering, SME development, education and volunteerism. He continues to be an entrepreneur, setting-up and nurturing various business ventures.

Education:·

• Year elected as Academician: 2001·
• BSME, Feati University, 1953·
• BSEE, Feati University, 1955·
• MSAE, Iowa State University, USA, 1962·
• M. Management, Feati University, 1963·
• Ph. D. Humanities, Ateneo de Davao, 1991·
• Ph. D. Laws, UP System, 1992

Doctor Francisco Fronda is best known as the Father of poultry science in the Philippines. He had improved methods of production for the poultry and livestock industry. He is also the author of the book Poultry Science Production and was one of the first five people in the world to earn a doctorate in Poultry Science. Having devoted over 6 decades of his life to teaching, research and extension services, Dr. Fronda contributed immensely to the development of poultry industry not only in the Philippines but in Asia region as well. In recognition of his pioneering contributions, he was cited as the Father of Poultry Science in the Philippines by the Philippine Association of Animal Science, 1980; and Father of Thai Poultry Industry honor presented by Her Royal Highness, the Crown Princess of Thailand, 1982. Dr. Fronda has no less than 500 scientific articles of great value in the development of poultry and livestock industry. He also authored a textbook in Poultry Science Production for students in agriculture and co-authored a series of books entitled Let Us Raise Series for secondary and elementary pupils.

Degrees: ·

• BSA from the University of the Philippines Los Baños - 1919 ·
• MS in Animal Husbandry from Cornell University - 1920
• PhD in Animal Husbandry from Cornell University - 1922·
• Year elected as Academician: 1979·
• Year conferred as National Scientist: 1983

Awards: ·

• Father of Thai Poultry Industry honor presented by Her Royal Highness, the Crown Princess of Thailand - 1982 ·
• National Scientist - 1983

Dr. Edito Garcia was born on September 16, 1921. He was a Professor of Parasitological at the UP Institute of Public Health and has done work in the areas of immunology and parasitic infections. Since 1979, Dr. Garcia has been conducting studies on the immunology of Schistosomiasis Japonica especially on the development on the development of vaccines. A hypothesis has been developed which enabled him and his associates to identify an immunologic mechanism which leads to granuloma modulation and consequently disease abatement in schistosomiasis. Now, 18 scientific papers on the progress of this research have been published in foreign journals and a vaccine against infection is being developed.

Most important awards: ·

• Distinguished Alumnus award for medical research, UP (1977)·
• San Miguel Brewery Professorial Chair (1982) ·
• NRCP Achievement award for research on immunology(1984).

Andrew Gonzalez was born on February 29, 1940. He was recognized and known for his outstanding works and accomplishment in the field of linguistics: his study on language and intellectualization of Filipino as a language of intellectual discourse, and his study on Language acquisition of Filipino and of English by Filipino children.

Doctor Carmen L. Intengan was born on April 7, 1915. She has greatly contributed to the advancement of nutrition in the country as a researcher and science administrator, having served as the director of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute from 1974-1980.

Award of Dr. Intengan: ·

• Presidential Award for outstanding contribution in basic nutrition research in the past decade (1957)·
• FIDA Ten Outstanding Women Award(1967)·
• Presidential Award for Merit for Science (1968)·
• NRCP Achievement award(1983).

Dr. Quintin L.Kintanar was born on August 12, 1937. He has distinguished himself in the fields of pharmacology and environmental science through original researches that advanced the frontiers of knowledge in these fields. He has investigated the mechanisms of fatty liver and Hypolipedemia induced by erotic acid thus assisting in the clarification of the molecular mechanisms of lipo protein biosynthesis. He is also pioneered in the pharmacological screening of Philippine plants using multidimensional observation techniques.

Award of Dr. Kintanar:·

• Burke Award for excellence in cardiovascular medicine and the Republic Heritage Award (1960)·
• He also won First Prize in the Manila Medical Society research contest the following decade·
• He became the recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TONYM) award for Science, 1975·
• President Manuel A. Roxas Medallion for science·
• First Prizes in the PMA-Abbot award ·
• 2nd the NSDB Researcher of the Year. ·
• 1981, Dr. Kintanar received the UP Alumni Association Professional Achievement award in science.