Inventions and Innovations

Innovations & Inventions

• The heavy plough improved soil cultivation in the Middle Ages.
• Sumerians developed one of the earliest writing systems.
• Bicycles improved transportation by providing faster personal travel.
• The Wright brothers invented the first controlled, powered flight.
• The telescope enabled the discovery of planets and moons.
• China first introduced paper money.
• Hero of Alexandria's aeolipile is an early example of a steam engine.
• Fe del Mundo created the medical incubator.
• Early telescopes were primarily used for observing celestial bodies.
• The mechanical clock's primary purpose was timekeeping.
• Papyrus was used by ancient civilizations for early books.
• The Jacquard loom increased textile production speed.
• John Logie Baird developed the first television system.
• The spinning wheel improved textile production.
• Zacharias Janssen invented the first microscope.
• The Jacquard loom's purpose was simplifying textile weaving.
• The potter's wheel was later adopted for transportation.

Medicine

• Fe del Mundo's medical incubator was a significant contribution in medicine.
• Fe del Mundo's incubator was designed to keep newborns warm without electricity.
• Antibiotics revolutionized the field of medicine.
• Abelardo Aguilar discovered Erythromycin.
• Del Mundo was the first human pediatrician admitted to Harvard.
• Ronaldo dela Cruz used cashew nut extract in his mole remover.

Maria Orosa

• Maria Orosa was known for inventing banana ketchup and used Annato seeds in it as a natural dye to give it a red color.

Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology

• Heidegger defines the instrumental view of technology as technology being a means to an end.
• Modern technology differs from traditional technology because it challenges forth rather than brings forth.
• Heidegger criticizes viewing technology as neutral because it ignores its essence.
• Seinsvergessenheit refers to Heidegger's idea of "Forgetfulness of Being".
• Art is proposed as the "saving power" against technology's danger.
• Exploiting petroleum reserves illustrates "challenging forth" in modern technology.
• Gestell (Enframing) is the term he uses for modern technology's way of ordering nature.
• Technology becoming self-aware is NOT a danger of technology.
• Heidegger's primary philosophical focus is Ontology (the study of being).
• Poiesis is associated with technology as "bringing forth".
• Critical questioning preserves human essence according to Heidegger, questioning is the piety of thought.
• Enframing can result in humans becoming part of the "standing reserve".
• Calculative and meditative are modes of thinking which are contrasted in enframing.
• Humans being exploited as instruments of technology, is what is meant by "dashing".
• The essence of technology is a way of revealing (bringing forth).
• Aletheia is the Greek term for "unconcealment" or "truth".
• Technology dominates humans in modern technology, according to Heidegger.
• Hölderlin is the poetic quote referenced for the "saving power".
• A historical controversy associated with Heidegger is his membership in the Nazi party.

Ancient world

• Egyptians lifted water for irrigation using a Shadoof.
• The Antikythera mechanism's primary function was calculating star and planet movements.

Other

• The Middle Ages are often incorrectly called The Dark Ages.
• E-jeepneys replaces traditional diesel jeepneys in the Philippines.
• Technology is a human activity, according to an anthropological definition.