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Panabas is a curved-blade weapon. The panabas is a large, forward-curved sword, used by certain ethnic groups in the southern Philippines. Its length varied from two to four feet, and was either wielded with one hand or with both. It was used as a combat weapon, as an execution tool, and as a display of power.
Pages in category "Filipino inventors". The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of Filipino inventions and discoveries.
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 ...
Dado Banatao. Diosdado P. Banatao (born May 23, 1946) is a Filipino entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry, [ 2] credited with having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the first system logic chip set for IBM 's PC-XT and the PC-AT, and the local bus ...
Ramon Barba. Ramon Cabanos Barba ONS (August 31, 1939 – October 10, 2021) was a Filipino inventor and horticulturist [ 1][ 2] best known for inventing a way to induce more flowers in mango trees using ethrel and potassium nitrate. [ 3] Barba was proclaimed a National Scientist of the Philippines in June 2014. [ 4][ 5]
Leonardo S. Sarao. Leonardo Salvador Sarao (13 April 1921 – 31 July 2001) was the founder and owner of the Sarao Motors, a company known for designing, manufacturing and selling the jeepney, the most popular mode of transportation in the Philippines. He is not the first person to alter the surplus jeeps left behind by the United States Army ...
Pedro Flores (inventor) Pedro Edralin Flores (26 April 1896 – 3 January 1964) [ 1] was a Filipino businessman and yo-yo maker who has been credited with popularizing yo-yos in the United States. He patented an innovation to yo-yos that used a loop instead of a knot around the axle, allowing for new tricks such as the ability to "sleep". [ 2][ 3]
2 October 1963 in Manila, Philippines — Peace "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace." [22] (awarded together with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) Expatriates: 2010 Richard F. Heck [i] 15 August 1931 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States 10 October 2015 in ...