STS GE12

Samuel M. Kier

Inventor of Kerosene, a type of crude oil

Henry Ford

Inventor of the first factory-made automobiles

Louis Pasteur

Inventor of Pasteurization, a method to preserve food

Alexander Graham Bell

Inventor of the Telephone, used for long-distance communication

Salamander

Amphibious tricycle made in the PH

Victor Atoy Lave, Lamberto Armada, Dominic Chung

Inventors of the Salamander

Salt Lamp

Sustainable alternative lighting lamp in the PH

Aisa Mijeno

Inventor of the salt lamp

Indigenous medical incubator

Non-electric incubator made in the PH

Fe del Mundo

Inventor of the indigenous medical incubator, bananas, rice, apples, toast diet for the treatment of diarrhea, and mosquito-ovicidal/larvicidal trap system

E-Jeepney

A type of jeepney that functions through electric batteries instead of diesel

Gregorio Zara

Patented the first videophone

Eduardo Quisumbing

Father of Filipino orchidology; native botanist and taxonomist

Julian Banzon

Filipino chemist, inventor of the coconut gasoline

Edgardo Gomez

Marine scientist responsible for coral reef and giant clams reservation in Tubbataha Reef

Lourdes Cruz

Founder of the conotoxin medicinal use for the treatment of Alzheimers

Bienvenido Juliano

Pioneer of Rice technology

Marisa Paglicawan

Pioneer of abaca roofs and native material science

Reinabelle Reyes

Astrophysicist, theorist of clustering galaxies using Einstein’s theory of general relativity

Hans and Zacharias Janssen

Pioneers of the first microscope

Galileo Galilei

Astronomer, first pioneer of the telescope and the heliocentric theory

Johann Gutenberg

Inventor of the cast-type Printing Press

Nicolaus Copernicus

Pioneer of the earth’s revolution around the sun (heliocentrism)

Claudius Ptolemy

Pioneer of the geocentric model

Yersinia pestis

Bacteria found within the rats which spread the Black Plague across the world

Martin Luther

Protested against the Catholic Church through the 99 Theses, sparked the Protestant movement and the Reformation period

Counter-reformation Period

The Church’s response to the Protestant movement as a means to correct their ways and teachings

Chain mail

Advanced form of iron armor, lighter and less encumbering

Bubonic Plague/Black Plague

Plague that swept across Europe and Asia, killing 40%-70% of the entire population

Crusades/Jihads

Two holy wars that occured during the early and middle ages centred around the possession of the Holy Land in Jerusalem

Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa

Jupiter’s four moons

Renaissance

It means “rebirth” in Greek, the rebirth of classical science and literature

Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello, Rafael

Four prominent artists of the Renaissance period

Haydn, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven

Four prominent musicians during the late Renaissance

Coal and Petroleum

Main source of energy during the Industrial Revolution

Fractionating Tower

Machinery used to process crude oil

Gasoline, diesel

Natural gases from the fractionary process

Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration

Full definition of PAG-ASA, monitors the PH atmosphere

Diwata

Microsatellite series of the Philippines

Caravel

Main ship type during the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Robert Hooke

Made observations about the microscope

Abraham Maslow

Outlined and detailed the categories of human physical and emotional needs

Asphalt

Product of petrol, used in roads

Whale oil

Fuel for lamps

Calculator

Integral invention that resulted into the computer system

Herbolaryo

Use of natural medicinal and therapeutic properties in Precolonial PH

Noli Dazo

Inventor of the water gasoline, car engines that run on hydrogen fuel