Local Inventions and Inventors

An example of a local invention is the karaoke invented by Roberto Del Rosario. He is a Filipino claiming the right for the invention of the Sing-Along-System (SAS) that eventually led to the development of karaoke, a Japanese term for "singing without accompaniment".
      


Another example is the Fluorescent Lamp ,which was invented by Agapito Flores, and now it is most widely used source of lighting in the world today.
             


The videophone is another local invention invented by Gregorio Zara. He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he developed the Zara effect or Electrical Kinetic Resistance.