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Biographical Portrait of Magdalena Villaruz. Influential Fiilpino inventor.

Biography

Entrepreneur and inventor, Magdalena Villaruz is an influential figure of the Philippines. She was born in the year 1934 and started her early life as a rice farmer.^[1] She later went onto transforming agricultural technology by inventing the turtle hand tractor and many other ground-breaking inventions.^[2] On February 1986, she was then awarded with the WIPO Gold Medal in Metro Manila for her inventions of the Turtle Hand Tractor also known as the power cultivator, as well as her several other inventions. On July 1995, she was awarded with another WIPO Gold Medal in Cebu, Philippines for her other inventions including the screen type thresher.^[3] Her inventions helped the advancement of the Philippine agricultural technology.

Patented Inventions

Turtle Power Tiller
Rice Thresher
Leveling Device
Diaphragm pump
Dual Diaphragm Pump
Improved power cultivator
Household rice huller
Improved corn sheller
Simplified Hand Tractor
Combination Harrow-leveler
Floating operator's seat
Adjustable Engine Mount
Three-wheeled vehicle with passenger seats
Improved power cultivator assembly
Blower for thresher discharge ejector
Two-speed transmission assembly for power
Improved Windmill

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Recognition and Awards

WIPO Gold Medal 1986 - Best Inventor
WIPO Gold Medal 1995 - Best Woman Inventor

Oraganizations and Affiliations

Philippine Invention Development Institute (PIDI)
Technology Application and Promotion Institute,

Department of Science and Technology (TAPI/DOST)^[5]

United Nations Development Organization (UNIDO)
National Agricultural & Fishery Council (NAFC)
Experts on Technical Cooperation for Developing Countries (TCDC)
ASEAN Productivity Center, Development Academy of the Philippines^[6]

References

^ https://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/villaruz.html
^ Women Invent:Two Centuries of Discoveries That Have Shaped Our World by Susan Casey (Chicago review Press, 1997) pp. 2-3. Patently Female by Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) p. 131.
^ http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-outreach/en/awards/women/pdf/ph.pdf
^ http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-outreach/en/awards/women/pdf/ph.pdf
^ http://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html
^ http://filipinoinventorssociety.com/main/images/stories/Hall_of_Famers.pdf/villaruz.pdf

[1] ttps://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/villaruz.html

[2] Women Invent:Two Centuries of Discoveries That Have Shaped Our World by Susan Casey (Chicago review Press, 1997) pp. 2-3. Patently Female by Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) p. 131.

[3] ttp://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-outreach/en/awards/women/pdf/ph.pdf

[4] ttp://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-outreach/en/awards/women/pdf/ph.pdf

[5] ttp://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html

[6] ttp://filipinoinventorssociety.com/main/images/stories/Hall_of_Famers.pdf/villaruz.pdf

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 Patently Female by Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) p. 131.</ref> On February 1986, she was then awarded with the WIPO Gold Medal in Metro Manila for her inventions of the Turtle Hand Tractor also known as the power cultivator, as well as her several other inventions. On July 1995, she was awarded with another WIPO Gold Medal in Cebu, Philippines for her other inventions including the screen type thresher.<ref>http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/ip-outreach/en/awards/women/pdf/ph.pdf
 </ref> Her inventions helped the advancement of the Philippine agricultural technology.
-[[File:50th Anniversary stamp of the Philippine Inventors' Association.jpg|thumb|Depicts Magdalena Villaruz's invention of the turtle hand tractor used in rice fields.]]
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