MST 112  Discovery of Plant Cell by Robert

Hook
Technology
Discovery it’s a finding of something
 the human attempt to change the that already exists.
world. By creating products that can
help people. Invention is creating something original
 Uses knowledge to develop tools to and advanced typically a process or a
solve our problems. device.
 From the greek word
Innovation is similar to invention but
Tekhne - “Art or Craft”
mainly refers to ideas and new way of
Logia - “Subject or Interest”
thinking that may lead to new
Alexander Graham Bell inventions.
- On telephone
New Born Screening
Herman von Helmholtz
is a procedure intended for infants who are
- Reproduction of sound
affected by certain genetic, metabolic or
infectious conditions that may lead to
mental retardation or morbidity if left
Thomas Alva Edison untreated.
- Light bulb /Republic Act 9228 or Newborn
Charles Babbage Screening Act of 2004/
- Computer
John Heilbron (American Science Historian)
Science Modern science is a discovery as well as an
- is a method to acquire empirical invention.
knowledge.
Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Invention - Scientist and inventor
Discoveries
 Refers to creating something new
and useful, with one’s ideas and  Draco Rizali
experiments. (flying lizard)
 Something that did not prevail  Rachophorus
before. (a toad)
 Apogonia Rizali
“Science is a way of knowing and (beetle with 5 antennae)
Technology is a way of doing”
Wolpert (2005)
Discovery applies to those, which existed “Scientists are responsible for the
since a long time. On the contrary, the reliable conduct of scientific inquiry and
invention applies to things which never its honest interpretation and
existed. dissemination, technological
applications of science are influenced
The patent applies to inventions only, but by other sectors such as politics and
not to discoveries. governance, religion and business.
(The Medawar Lecture 1998: Science is
Dangerous)
 Discovery of America by Columbus
 Discovery of Gravity by Isaac
Newton