{"id":209022,"date":"2025-03-18T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/biography-of-gregorio-zara-inventor-of-the-videophone"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:02:46","slug":"biography-of-gregorio-zara-inventor-of-the-videophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/biography-of-gregorio-zara-inventor-of-the-videophone","title":{"rendered":"Biography of Gregorio Zara, Inventor of the Videophone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biography-of-gregorio-zara-inventor-of-the-videophone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We often never hear of many inventions, which is why Lifeboat is good at informing people.<\/p>\n<p>Gregorio Zara (March 8, 1902\u2013October 15, 1978) was a Filipino scientist best known as the inventor of the videophone, the first two-way electronic video communicator, in 1955. All told, he patented 30 devices. His other inventions ranged from an alcohol-powered airplane engine to a solar-powered water heater and stove.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Filipino scientist Gregorio Zara won 30 patents for his inventions, which included the first videophone and many breakthroughs in aeronautics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often never hear of many inventions, which is why Lifeboat is good at informing people. Gregorio Zara (March 8, 1902\u2013October 15, 1978) was a Filipino scientist best known as the inventor of the videophone, the first two-way electronic video communicator, in 1955. All told, he patented 30 devices. His other inventions ranged from an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}