Agapito flores biography filipino scientist contribution

The Agapito Flores controversy continues - Agapito Flores has been acclaimed by some as being the inventor of the first fluorescent lamp. However, the dates are all wrong for this being possible.

Filipino inventions

The following points have been taken from "The History of Fluorescent Lights"

In , the French physicist Alexandre E. Becquerel who had investigated the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence theorized about the building of fluorescent tubes similar to those made today.

American, Peter Cooper Hewitt () patented (U.S. patent ,) the first mercury vapor lamp in The low-pressure mercury arc lamp of Peter Cooper Hewitt is the very first prototype of today's modern fluorescent lights.

Edmund Germer ( - ) who invented a high-pressure vapor lamp, also invented an improved fluorescent lamp.

In , Edmund Germer co-patented an experimental fluorescent lamp with Friedrich Meyer and Hans Spanner.

SO WHAT IS TRUE ABOUT AGAPITO FLORES?
Agapito Flores was born in Guiguinto, Bulacan, the Philipp