OBJECTIVE
• IDENTIFY THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES
• DESCRIBE AND MANIFEST THE DIFFERENT TIMELINE OF THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
• CITE SOME INSTANCES TO WHERE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
PRE-HISTORIC PERIOD
• TRIAL AND ERROR
• PEOPLE DURING THIS PERIOD USED THE METHOD
“TRIAL AND ERROR”
• PEOPLE USE THINGS THAT WOULD ONLY BENEFIT TO
THEM, IF ONE OF THE MEMBER OF THE TRIBE/GROUP
DIES OR GOT HURT BY USING NEW THINGS TO THEM,
IT MEANS ITS DANGEROUS OR NOT HELPFUL TO THEIR
SURVIVAL
• IF IT IS HELPFUL TO THEIR SOCIETY, THEY WILL USE IT
AND CULTIVATE FOR THEIR SURVIVAL
MESOPOTAMIA ERA
• DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING
• DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICS
• READING OF ASTRONOMY
• PEOPLE BELIEVE IN SUPREME BEING
• PEOPLE FOLLOW KINGS, EMPERORS, GODS
• WAR AND SKIRMISH TO GAIN ABSOLUTE
POWER
STONE AGE
•THE STONE AGE WAS A TIME IN HISTORY WHEN EARLY HUMANS USED
TOOLS AND WEAPONS MADE OUT OF STONES
3 TYPES OF STONE AGE
•THE OLD STONE AGE (PALEOLITHIC)
•THE MIDDLE STONE AGE (MESOLITHIC)
•THE NEW STONE AGE (NEOLITHIC)
•THE TERM “LITHIC” CAME FROM THE
ANCIENT GREEK WORD FOR STONE OR
ROCK.
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
IRON AGE
• A PREHISTORIC PERIOD THAT FOLLOWED THE BRONZE AGE, WHEN WEAPONS AND TOOLS CAME TO BE
MADE OF IRON.
• THE IRON AGE LASTED FROM THERE THIRD CENTURY B.C. TO 11TH CENTURY A.D. DURING THIS PERIOD
FILIPINOS WERE ENGAGED IN EXTRACTION SMELTING AND REFINING OF IRON FROM ORES, UNTIL THE
IMPORTATION OF CAST IRON FROM SARAWAK AND LATER FROM CHINA.
INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES
•THEY LEARN TO WEAVE COTTON, MAKE GLASS ORNAMENTS, AND
CULTIVATE LOWLAND RICE AND DIKE FIELDS OF TERRACED FIELDS
UTILIZING SPRING WATER IN MOUNTAIN REGIONS.
•THEY ALSO LEARNED TO BUILD BOATS FOR TRADING PURPOSES.
•SPANISH CHRONICLES NOTED REFINED PLANK-BUILT WARSHIPS
CALLED CARACOA SUITED FOR INTERISLAND TRADE RAIDS.
10 CENTURY A.D.
TH
•FILIPINOS FROM BUTUAN WERE TRADING WITH CHAMPA (VIETNAM)
AND THOSE FROM MINDORO WITH CHINA AS NOTED IN CHINESE
RECORDS CONTAINING SEVERAL REFERENCES TO THE PHILIPPINES.
THESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS INDICATED THAT REGULAR TRADE
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE PHILIPPINES, CHINA AND VIETNAM HAD
BEEN WELL ESTABLISHED FROM THE 10TH CENTURY TO THE 15THA.D.
TRADING
•THE PEOPLE OF MINDORO AND PALAWAN TRADED
BEESWAX, COTTON, PEARLS, COCONUT HEART MATS AND
MEDICINAL BETEL NUTS, PORCELAIN, IRON POTS.
DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLS DURING
SPANISH REGIME
COLEGIO DE SAN ILDEFENSO-CEBU-
1595
DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLS DURING
SPANISH REGIME
COLEGIO DE SAN IGNACIO-
MANILA_1595
DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLS DURING
SPANISH REGIME
COLEGIO DE NUESTRA SENORA DEL
ROSARIO-MANILA-1597
DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLS DURING
SPANISH REGIME
COLEGIO DE SAN JOSE-MANILA-1601
DEVELOPMENT OF HOSPITAL DURING
SPANISH REGIME
• SAN JUAN LAZARO HOSPITAL THE
OLDEST IN THE FAR EAST WAS
FOUNDED IN 1578.
•SPANISH REGIME
• THE REAL SOCIEDAD ECONOMICA DE LOS AMIGOS DEL PAIS DE
FILIPINAS FOUNDED BY GOVERNADOR JOSE BASCO Y VARGAS IN 1780
ENCOURAGED RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY. THE
SOCIETY PROMOTED CULTIVATION OF INDIGO, COTTON, CINNAMON,
AND SILK INDUSTRY.
• IN 1789 MANILA WAS OPENED TO ASIAN SHIPPING, INAUGURATING AN
ERA OF INCREASE IN EXPORT OF RICE, HEMP, TOBACCO, SUGAR, AND
INDIGO, AND IMPORTS OF MANUFACTURING GOODS.
•SPANISH REGIME
• THE LICENTIATE DEGREE EQUIVALENT TO A MASTER DEGREE WAS
GRANTED BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN PHARMACY TO ITS 1ST SIX
GRADUATES WHO INCLUDED LEON MA. GUERRERO CONSIDERED WAS
THE FATHER OF THE PHILIPPINE PHARMACY DUE TO HIS WORKS ON
MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
• THERE WERE NO SCHOOL FOR ENGINEERING BUT THEY OFFERED NAUTICAL FOUR-YEAR
COURSE FOR PILOT OF MERCHANT MARINE THAT INCLUDES THE SUBJECT:
ARITHMETIC ALGEBRA
GEOMETRY TRIGONOMETRY
PHYSICS HYDROGRAPHY
METEOROLOGY NAVIGATION PILOTAGE
• THE EXPANDED WORLD TRADE AND COMMERCE IN THE LATER PART OF THE
19TH CENTURY LED TO THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF MANILA AS
COSMOPOLITAN CENTER.
• MODERN AMENITIES SUCH AS STEAM TRAMWAYS, WATERWORKS,
NEWSPAPER, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, BANKING SYSTEM WERE INTRODUCE IN
19TH CENTURY.
• JESUITS PROMOTED METEOROLOGICAL STUDIES FOUNDING MANILA
OBSERVATORY AT THE ATENEO MUNICIPAL DE MANILA IN 1865.
