&content_popup=Agapito Flores invented the fluorescent lamp which is used world wide today.
A native of Guiginto, Bulacan, Flores did not finish high school.  He worked for a while as an apprentice in a machine shop in his town. Later he migrated to Manila where he worked as an electrician in the Tondo District.  Agapito Flores was intent on developing a tube that produced light.  He approached then President Manuel Quezon and told him of his invention, but the president do not have any idea how he could help the inventor.
A French official who was visiting Malacaņan took interest in Flores' invention.  Flores was sent to Paris where he got patent for the invention.  Much later the General Electric Company of the United States bought Flores' invention and mass produced it as the fluorescent lamp which is used world wide today.