10 Notable Mexican Inventions

1. Luis Miramontes
Chemist, Luis Miramontes co-invented the contraceptive "birth control pill".

As far as I am concerned, we could stop right there, that's a GREAT offering to humanity!

2. Victor Celorio
Victor Celorio patented the "Instabook Maker" a technology supporting e-book distribution by quickly and elegantly printing an offline copy.

3. Guillermo González Camarena
Guillermo González Camarena invented an early color television system.

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.

5. José Hernández-Rebollar
Jose Hernandez-Rebollar invented the Acceleglove, a glove that can translate sign language into speech.

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.

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.