Invention and Engineering

Gregorio Y. Zara

Gregorio Ynciong Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) was a Filipino engineer, physicist, a National Scientist, and inventor. He was known as the father of videoconferencing for having invented the first two-way videophone. He was also one of the country's pioneer aeronautical engineer having invented an airplane engine that ran on plain alcohol as fuel. This was due to the country's overstock of popular alcohol Tanduay, Tuba and Lambanog. Among his other notable inventions include a solar-powered water heater,, the discovery of the physical law of electrical kinetic resistance called the Zara effect,, and a propeller-cutting machine, among others.

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• ▸Economic history of World War I
• ▸Dome of the Rock
• ▸Indian locomotive class SP

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