LECTURE 1

• Concerns in ancient times

  • Transportation
  • Communication
  • Record-Keeping
  • Navigation
  • mass production
  • security
  • protection
  • health
  • aesthetics
  • architecture
• Earliest communities For almost the past 10,000 years, humans lived almost entirely in small nomadic communities dependent on their skills in gathering food, hunting and fishing, and avoiding predators
• Ancient Wheel


  • Wheels first appeared in ancient Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, more than 5,000 years ago
• ShadoofThe shadoof was an early crane-like tool with a lever mechanism used in irrigation since around 3000 BCE
• Paper or Papyrus


  • Egyptian civilization contributed paper or papyrus, making writing easier for the world
• Antikythera Mechanism


  • An ancient hand-powered Greek analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes
• Aeolipile


  • Also known as Hero's engine, a simple, bladeless radial steam turbine
• Modern ages The booming world population during the nineteenth century onwards demanded more goods to be produced at a faster rate
• The compound microscope was invented by a Dutch father-son team named Hans and Zacharias Janssen in the late 16th century
• Martin Cooper is considered the "father of the cell phone" for leading the team that developed it and brought it to market in 1983
• Wilbur and Orville Wright built the first airplane after spending many years building balloons and kites
• The personal computer, or PC, was invented in the 1970s and revolutionized the entire world
• GPS, or the Global Positioning System, was invented by the U.S. Department of Defense and Ivan Getting at the cost of twelve billion taxpayer dollars
• The Internet was invented in the late '60s and made available to the public in the '90s, and it was invented by berners-lee
• Henry Ford designed the first car and used factories to build many cars in a short amount of time
• The refrigerator was invented by Carl von Linde to help keep food from spoiling in the heat, and it was invented by carl von linde
• Henry Ford wanted to change transportation in the world. He designed the first car and used factories to build many cars in a short amount of time
• The refrigerator was invented to help keep food from spoiling in the heat. Carl von Linde invented the refrigerator in 1876. Carl von Linde was from Germany
• Telescope


  An optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to observe distant objects, or various devices used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation
• Television


  A telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television show, or the medium of television transmission
• The Philippines is known to be one of the most vulnerable countries in terms of natural disasters. Many of the discoveries and inventions made by the Filipinos were built from indigenous materials or created to adapt to the harsh tropical environment
• Victor Llave and his team at H20 technologies were able to invent the Salamander, an amphibious tricycle that can cross flooded streets, rivers, and lakes
• Abelardo Aguilar discovered the antibiotic Erythromycin from the Aspergillus species of fungi in 1949
• Dr. Fe Del Mundo, a Filipino pediatrician, is credited for her studies that led to the invention of incubator and jaundice relieving devices
• The development of the jeepney, an iconic public utility vehicle in the Philippines, changed the transportation industry, Electronic jeepney