Talk:Gregorio Y. Zara

Kinetic Electrical Resistance
Where exactly did he publish his paper on this physics principle? Surely, if he made a discovery he would have wanted to share it with the scientific community. For it to be named the Zara Effect, someone has to give it that name, who and where was it published.

I've been researching on this, I even made FOI requests to DOST and NAST but nobody can show me any evidence that there is even something that is called the Zara Effect in existence. I studied Physics in college and I have to say that if this is a fundamental physics or engineering principle it should at least be mentioned in a textbook or referenced in a research or cited in subsequent papers, but there's nothing!

The Marcos regime is notorious for propping up itself through lies. They spread the myth that Filipinos invented the flourescent lamp, the AR15 rifle, the lunar rover, etc. They also lied about owning functional missiles. The Marcos regime lied that much to simulate a national pride that was channeled into obedience to the regime. I'm afraid that the good engineer might just have been one of its victims.

But I am open to any new developments. I hope that one of these days someone can point me to the direction of academic papers, technical notes, patent applications or scientific journals where the Kinetic Electrical Resistance aka Zara Effect was published. 216.247.80.58 (talk) 02:29, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Did he actually invent videotelephony? (also known as videoconferencing)
To add, it was Bell Labs (the research arm of AT&T) that made significant progress in the development of videotelephony. In 1964, Bell Labs introduced the Picturephone, a commercial videotelephony system. It allowed users in different locations to see and hear each other in real time. The Picturephone service was initially launched in a few cities but failed to gain widespread popularity due to its high cost and limited availability.

Now to Zara's alleged "invention", is there any videotelephony devices that he invented? Or at least photographed evidences of Zara's "invented" device. there is no credible evidence to support the assertion that he invented videoconferencing. LaRoiDeFrancaise (talk) 03:47, 21 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I can't find any sources to support the claim of invention beyond the level of speculation. Of course there are concept sketches of video-telephony back from the 19th century, but to my knowledge the first implementation was Bell Labs in 1964. Additionally, the sources claiming the existence of a 'Zara Effect' never explain what it is or link to any scientific papers. Given the history of the Marcos Regime creating fake history I think it might be worth flagging these claims as dubious. (Lucas(CA2) (talk) 22:10, 24 June 2023 (UTC))
 * @LaRoiDeFrancaise
 * The only image of his invention is this
 * https://i.imgur.com/te5X19G.jpg FBIAgentEarld (talk) 10:56, 17 November 2023 (UTC)