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This is a list of inventions by people who were born in Taiwan or current citizens of Taiwan.
Inventions and discoveries
- Bubble tea is a drink that contains flavored tea and tapioca pearls. It was invented in the early 1980s by Taiwanese street food vendors.[1] Bubble tea vendors serve the beverage cold inside a translucent plastic cup with an over-sized straw wide enough for the tapioca bubbles. [2] The drink is popular throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, Southeast Asia and the United States.[1]
- Woodball is a sport invented by Weng Ming-hui and Kuang-chu Young in 1990. In the game, a mallet is used to pass a ball through a series of gates. The Olympic Council of Asia made the sport a program of the Asian Beach Games in 2008.[3] The International Woodball Federation is based in Taipei, Taiwan.[4]
- A universal crossed molecular beam apparatus for studying chemical reactions was developed by the Taiwanese chemist Yuan T. Lee.[5] In 1986, Lee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Dudley R. Herschbach and John Polanyi for ""for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes."[6]
- Connect6 is a game similar to Gomoku invented by I-Chen Wu, a computer science professor at National Chiao Tung University. The player who obtains six or more stones in a row wins.[7]
- The optimistic concurrency control method was first proposed by Taiwanese computer scientist H. T. Kung and American John T. Robinson in 1981.[8]
References
- ^ a b Martin, Laura C. (2007). Tea: The drink that changed the world. Rutland: Tuttle Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 9780804837248.
- ^ Lovegren, Sylvia (2013). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. Oxford University Press. p. 223. ISBN 978-0-19-973496-2.
- ^ "MOFA honors inventor of woodball". Taipei Times. July 6, 2007.
- ^ "Historical innovation". International Woodball Federation. International Woodball Federation.
- ^ Lin, M.C.; Lin, S.H.; Neumark, D.M. (September 4, 1997). "Y.T. Lee Preface". The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 101 (36): 6339–6340.
- ^ "The dynamics of chemical reactions - a fascinating new field of research". Nobel Prizes. Nobel Foundation. October 15, 1986.
- ^ Wu, I-Chen; Huang, Dei-Yen (2006). "A New Family of k-in-a-Row Games". A New Family of k-in-a-Row Games. 4250: 180–194. doi:10.1007/11922155_14.
- ^ Kung, H.T.; Robinson, John T. (June 1981). "On optimistic methods for concurrency control". ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 6 (2). doi:10.1145/319566.319567.