Mexican inventors

[Oldies Rule Forever1]

I haven't seen any threads dedicated to Mexican inventors, and I looked at all 12 pages in this section before making this one so,

here we go.


1. Luis Miramontes
Chemist, Luis Miramontes co-invented the contraceptive pill. In 1951, Luis Miramontes, then a college student, was under the direction of Syntex Corp Ceo George Rosenkranz and researcher Carl Djerassi. Miramontes wrote a new procedure for the synthesis of the progestin norethindrone, the active ingredient for what would become the oral birth control pill. Carl Djerassi, George Rosenkranz, and Luis Miramontes were granted US patent 2,744,122 for "oral contraceptives" on May 1, 1956. The first oral contraceptives tradenamed Norinyl was manufactured by Syntex Corp.

2. Victor Celorio
Victor Celorio patented the "Instabook Maker" a technology supporting e-book distribution by quickly and elegantly printing an offline copy. Victor Celorio was granted US patents 6012890 and 6213703 fpr his invention. Celorio was born on July 27, 1957 in Mexico City. He is the president of Instabook Corporation, based in Gainesville, Florida.

3. Guillermo González Camarena
Guillermo González Camarena invented an early color television system. He received US patent 2296019 on September 15, 1942 for his "chromscopic adapter for television equipment". González Camarena publicly demonstrated his color television with a transmission on August 31, 1946. The color transmission was broadcast direct from the his laboratory in Mexico City.

4. Victor Ochoa
Victor Ochoa was the Mexican American inventor of the Ochoaplane. And the inventor of a windmill, magnetic brakes, a wrench, and a reversible motor. His best known invention, the Ochoaplane was a small flying machine with collapsible wings. Mexican inventor Victor Ochoa was also a Mexican revolutionary. According to the Smithsonian, Victor Ochoa had a reward of $50,000 offered for his delivery dead or alive to Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico. Ochoa was a revolutionist who sought to overthrow the rule of Mexico’s chief executive in the early nineties.

5. José Hernández-Rebollar
Jose Hernandez-Rebollar invented the Acceleglove, a glove that can translate sign language into speech. According the Smithsonian, "by using sensors attached to the glove and the arm, this prototype device can currently translate the alphabet and over 300 words in American Sign Language (ASL) into both English and Spanish."

6. María González
Doctor María del Socorro Flores González won the MEXWII 2006 award for her work on diagnostic methods for invasive amebiasis. María González patented processes to diagnose invasive amebiasis, a parasitic disease that kills over 100,000 people each year.

7. Felipe Vadillo
Mexican inventor Felipe Vadillo patented a method of predicting premature fetal membrane rupturein preganant women.

8. Juan Lozano
Juan Lozano, a Mexican inventor with a lifelong obsession with jet packs, invented the Rocket Belt. Juan Lozano's company Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana sells the Rocket Belt for a hefty price. According to their website, "founder Juan Manuel Lozano has been working with hydrogen peroxide propulsion systems since 1975, inventor of the penta-metallic catalyst pack to be used with organic hydrogen peroxide and inventor of the most popular machine in the world to produce you own hydrogen peroxide to be used as a rocket fuel."

9. Emilio Sacristan
Emilio Sacristan of Santa Ursula Xitla, Mexico, invented a air-pressure powered driver for pneumatic ventricular assist device (VAD).

10. Benjamin Valles
Benjamin Valles of Chihuahua, Mexico, developed a system and a method for preforming cable for promoting adhesion to overmolded sensor body for Delphi Technologies Inc. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,077,022 on July 18, 2006.


Please feel free to add on.

[xicanachick]

good info

[Californio]

Obviously the most important:

Guillermo González Camarena invented an early color television system. He received US patent 2296019 on September 15, 1942 for his "chromscopic adapter for television equipment". González Camarena publicly demonstrated his color television with a transmission on August 31, 1946. The color transmission was broadcast direct from the his laboratory in Mexico City.

[tecpaocelotl]

Didn't know most of them, except for Guillermo Gonzalez.

[Dee]

Emilio Sacristan
Emilio Sacristan of Santa Ursula Xitla, Mexico, invented a air-pressure powered driver for pneumatic ventricular assist device (VAD).

cool shit
good to know

[ElSolitario]

what about the guy that invented the balero?



jk, good list

[Californio]

^^ That shit isn't notable, wtf? lmfao.

[QMX]

• Corn, only the world's most utilized and beneficial crop.
• the creation of the concept of zero ..mathematically centuries ahead of the world

"Trying to say we're dumb but it seems you're always thriving ..from the science."

people really need to learn their history..jocking western accomplishments as tho they invented and made the bounds in science.

[Californio]

^^ The olmecs were also kick ass at math, not just the Mayas. They didn't create corn though, that shit was already there. They cultivated it, among many other vegetables.

[QMX]

Originally Posted by Californio

^^ The olmecs were also kick ass at math, not just the Mayas.

Same family of people.

They didn't create corn though, that shit was already there. They cultivated it, among many other vegetables.

Wrong (like usual). Corn cannot be grown without human intervention.

At the DNA level, all the major cereals -- wheat, rice, maize, millet, barley, and so on -- are surprisingly alike. But despite their genetic similarity, maize looks and acts different from the rest. It is like the one redheaded early riser in a family of dark-haired night owls. Left untended, other cereals are capable of propagating themselves. Because maize kernels are wrapped inside a tough husk, human beings must sow the species -- it cannot reproduce on its own...no wild maize ancestor has ever been found, despite decades of search. Maize's closest relative is a mountain grass called teosinte that looks nothing like it...And teosinte, unlike wild wheat and rice, is not a practical food source; its "ears" are scarcely an inch long and consist of seven to twelve hard, woody seeds. An entire ear of teosinte has less nutritional value than a single kernel of modern maize...
...the modern species [of maize] had to have been consciously developed by a small group of breeders who hunted through teosinte strands for plants with desired traits. Geneticists from Rutgers University...estimated in 1998 that determined, aggressive, plan breeders -- which Indians certainly were -- might have been able to breed maize in as little as a decade...modern maize was the outcome of a bold act of conscious biological manipulation -- "arguably man's first, and perhaps his greatest, feat of genetic engineering," [Nina Federoff]..."To get corn out of teosinte is so -- you couldn't get a grant to do that now, because it would sound so crazy...Somebody who did that today would get a Nobel Prize! If their lab didn't get shut down by Greenpeace, I mean."

That is from 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann

http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_...es/001448.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...=QhXXxzJ9tD7Jk

[BABY-D]

Great thread to learn about Mexican history.

[Gh0sT213]

Good stuff!