Who are Mexico's inventors?

Answer 1

Some Mexican nationals with their inventions include:

• Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena: GNOME (GNU Network Model Environment) GUI for Unix/Linux Operating Systems.

• Armando M. Fernández: the mousepad.

• Guillermo Gonzales Camarena: Color television.

• Luis Miramontes: co-inventor of Contraceptive pill.

• Victor Celorio: Book On Demand, as well as a set of Distributed Printing technologies in which an e-book is distributed among many printing centers as required for immediate production and delivery.

• Jose Hernandez Rebollar: Acceleglove, a glove that can translate sign language into speech.

• Heberto Castillo: Tridilosa, a light and highly resistant material made from steel and concrete and widely used in civil engineering.

• Maria Gonzales: Invasive amebiasis diagnostic methods.

• Felipe Vadillo: Method of predicting premature fetal membrane rupture in pregnant women.

• Juan Lozano: The rocket belt.

• Emilio Sacristan: air-pressure powered driver for pneumatic ventricular assist device (VAD).

Some older, low-tech inventions include:

• The '$' sign, used by many currencies around the world.

• Mexico introduced chocolate to the world (Aztec: xocolatl), (Maya: chocolha).

• Also corn, beans, tomatoes and many species of squash were domesticated in Mexico.