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Benjamin AlmedaThe Father of Filipino Inventors

The Father of Filipino Inventors

✯ Benjamin Almeda is known for inventing and devising various food processing machines such as the rice grinder, coconut grater, and the meat grinder, earning him the title of the Father of Filipino Inventors.

✯ He is also known as one of the greatest Filipino inventors because of his important inventions.

His Inventions

✯ Benjamin Almeda invented the coconut grater, which is used to grate coconut meat, to produce niyog, which is dried coconut meat used to garnish delicacies or coconut milk, which is used in many viands like laing.

✯ He also invented the meat grinder, which is used to grind meat to produce finely minced meat which is also used in variety of dishes.

✯ He also invented the rice grinder, which is a machine that grinds grains of rice into fine powder, also used in many Filipino delicacies.

Significance of His Inventions

✯ Benjamin Almeda’s inventions helped further and better the food industry, by making the food processing machines which helped many in the food industry to have an easier method of processing food, being fast and easy. Food processes that before took a long time, now was made easier and faster.

Sources:

✯ http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Benjamin_Almeda_Sr.

✯ http://philippinehistory.aboutph.com/2009/05/benjamin-almeda/

✯ www.google.com

Benjamin Almeda soon went on to found the Almeda Cottage Industry, now known as the Almeda Food Machineries Corporation, in 1954, which produced his basic food processing machines.

His youngest son, Carlos Almeda now heads the company, which still continues to produce more food processing machines.

Arturo AlcarazArturo’s Birth Date and Birth Place:

Arturo Alvarez was born in Manila, Philippines on March 21, 1916

His Educational Background:

He completed elementary at Lucena, Quezon Province in 1929 and studied high school in Baguio City High School. He graduated at the top of his class in 1933 and sought to study mining as a career in college.

Arturo entered the College of Engineering University of the Philippines in Manila

Later on, the Mapua Institute of Technology, also in Manila offered Alcaraz a degree in mining engineering. Arturo tranferred there, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Mining

Engineering from Mapua in 1937

Occupations:

He entered the Bureau of Mines as an aide in geology.

A year later, Arturo decided he needed further training and took and came first in the government scholarship examination which qualified him to study in the U.S. He chose the University of Wisconsin for its academic strength in geology.

On a ship returning from the U.S., he met Maximo Lachica who offered him to become the Chief Geophysicist. Alcaraz accepted the position in May and had the responsibility of studying earthquakes. He was also in charge of the cooperative store and doing out potatoes and salted fish.

* Arturo Alcaraz got married to Lilia Salas and later had 3 daughters: Marilyn(1946), Cynthia(1948), and Lillian(1950)

In 1945, Alcaraz volunteered for a few months as a civilian engineer for the U.S. Army, surveying the port area for cleaning and rebuilding.

In the Weather Bureau, Arturo was responsible for monitoring Earth movement and volcanic activity.

In 1952, Alcaraz was assigned as Chief Volcanologist in the Commission on Volcanology and began to pursue more fully the study of volcanos in order to improve eruption warning and assess posibilities for use of stored heat beneath them.

Arturo Alcaraz observed that the places where there are volcanoes, there are other thermal manifestations on the Earth’s surface such as hot springs, mud cauldrons, and geysers-which are clues to underlying pools of hot water and steam that can be harnessed and realized, these can produce geothermal energy.

HIS INVENTION

The first electric bulb in the Philippines lit by earth-heat energy was in Tiwi, Albay, on April 12, 1967. A few years later, President Marcos transferred Arturo in 1974 as Chief of the Geothermal Division.

The first geothermal power generating plant with a three megawatt capacity was opened in Leyte in 1977. By 1980 Tiwi and Mac-Ban were each capable of producing 220 megawatts, and in the first half of 1982, when another 110 megawatts were added at Tiwi. The Philippines attained the second highest geothermal generating capacity in the world.

At present not all of the power generated at Tiwi and Mac-Ban can be used because the transmission lines have not kept pace with the increase in power.

Although Alcaraz’s years in government service have been demanding, he found time and personal energy to write extensively in his three fields of expertise—volcanology, seismology and geothermy—and has acted as Contributing Editor in Geology for the Philippine Journal of Science since 1972.

Arturo Alcarz retired in March 1981 at age but continued a consultant to the Philippine National Oil Company, seeing to the training in tapping earth energy of a new generation of Filipino technicians—in New Zealand, Japan, the United States and Iceland.

ARTURO PINEDA ALCARAZ was elected to receive the 1982 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service and the Board of Trustees recognized his scientific perspicacity and selfless perseverance in guiding Filipinos to understand and use one of their greatest natural resources.

The Philippine government, the scientific community, and his alma mater have all recognized Alcaraz’s contribution over the years.

He died on the year 2001 and is known as “Father of Philippine Geothermal Development”.

Source:

http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Biography/BiographyAlcarazArt.htm

http://firstfilipino.blogspot.com/2006/03/arturo-p-alcaraz.html

Ramon Barba

BIOGRAPHY Ramon Barba was born on August 31, 1939, in Ilocos Ramon Barba was born on August 31, 1939, in Ilocos

Norte. Norte.

He studied elementary in Sta. Rosa Academy and He studied elementary in Sta. Rosa Academy and finished in 1951. finished in 1951.

He then studied in the University of the Philippines for He then studied in the University of the Philippines for his high school. his high school.

He continued his studies in U.P. Los Banos in Laguna He continued his studies in U.P. Los Banos in Laguna and finished his course in Bachelor of Science in and finished his course in Bachelor of Science in Agriculture major in Agronomy or fruit production in Agriculture major in Agronomy or fruit production in 1958. 1958.

BIOGRAPHY Ramon received a scholarship in the University

of Georgia where he was able to do a lot of experiment about how plants could grow flowers by using gibberellic acid and potassium nitrate. In the year 1962 Ramon finished the Master of Science in Horticulture in the University of Georgia.

In the East West center in Hawaii he finished his Doctorate in Plant Physiology, specializing in tropical fruits and tissue culture in 1967.

Ramon Barba went through a lot of trials about his proposal so that the mango tree can bear more flowers.

BIOGRAPHY Ramon Barba’s occupation is a horticulturalist.

Elected to the National Academy of Science and technology of the Philippines in 2004 (one of his honors).

Invention Ramon Barba discovered a very practical flower

induction treatment which is considered as the most significant breakthrough in mango research in the country. His technology of using potassium nitrate to stimulate flowering is a milestone in the study of tropical tree physiology and is the main stimulus to the growth of the local mango industry.

Significance of inventionUsing potassium nitrate to induce flowering has

revolutionized the mango industry in the Philippines.

During harvest, you could double or triple the number of fruits harvested. And make the tree bear fruit at different times of the year.

After 8 yrs. of induction they are 15% smaller than those that are not treated. But there was no bad effect, no damage to the mango. Trees that have been sprayed with potassium nitrate for more than 30 yrs. are still producing.

Pictures

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Sourceswww.famousfilipino.com/agriculturist/ramon-

barba.html

www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2008/03/article_0001.html

http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Ramon_Barba title=Ramon_Barba

Julian Banzon FILIPINO SCIENTIST

BIO DATA ❄Name: Julian A. Banzon

❄Birthday: March 25, 1908

❄Birthplace: Balanga, Bataan

❄Parents: Manuel S. Banzon & Arcadia Arca

❄Wife: Vicencia Fernandez

❄Has 10 children

❄Death: September 13, 1988

Educational Background ❄He studied in the University of the Philippines and enrolled in the degree of B.S. Chemistry

❄He graduated in 1930 and after that he went to the USA to study in Iowa State College taking up a degree in Ph. D Chemistry and graduated in 1940

Inventions ❄Alternative Fuel

❄Julian Banzon used sugarcane and coconut to ethyl esters fuels

❄He also invented a chemical process to extract residual coconut oil.

Importance of his inventions

Alternative fuels are important since global warming is getting very bad, there is a need to use toxic fossil fuels. Many of the new fuels are eco-friendly, available and can be changed in the coming years. These fuels can help keep the Earth a healthier place.

The fuel is nonpetroleum, it yields energy security benefits, and the fuel gives environmental benefits.

Awards❄1980: Distinguished Service Award - Integrated Chemist of the Philippines, Inc.

❄1978: Chemist of the Year Award - Professional Regulation Commission

❄1976: Philsugin Award - Crop Society of the Philippines

Citations: ❄ http://www.blurtit.com

❄ http://www.hasloo.com/pinoyscience/?p=11

❄ http://www.nihi.gov.ph/downloads/sm0006.pdf

❄ http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Alternative_Fuels_Expansion

❄ http://pinellas.ifas.ufl.edu/sustainability/pdf/Just%20the%20Facts%20Alternative%20Fuels%20(3).pdf

Submitted by:Ria Dispo-Benjamin AlmedaJecca Kho-Ramon BarbaVia Lorenzo-Julian BanzonMia Santiago-Arturo AlcarazGroup 6-IB