This is a list of inventions by people who were born in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

(officially known as

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

) or citizens of Republic of China.

Fashion

Food, food techniques and cuisine

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Bubble tea Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, tapioca milk tea, boba tea, or boba; zh, t=珍珠奶茶, p=zhēnzhū nǎichá, zh, t=波霸奶茶, p=bōbà nǎichá, labels=no) is a tea-based drink most often containing chewy tapio ...

:is a drink that contains flavored tea and tapioca pearls. It was invented in the early 1980s in Taiwan. Bubble tea vendors serve the beverage cold or hot inside a translucent plastic cup with an oversized straw wide enough for the tapioca bubbles to pass through. The drink has spread from

and is now popular across the world. ; General Tso's chicken :is a sweet deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. The recipe was invented by

-based Hunan cuisine chef Peng Chang-kuei. ; Instant noodles : were invented by Go Pek-hok, who later adopted the name Momofuku Ando when he immigrated from Taiwan to Japan. Ando created a method for deep-frying and drying noodles that could later be cooked using boiling water. He founded the Nissin Foods company, which in 1971 introduced instant noodles marketed as

Cup Noodles A cup noodle is an instant ramen product in a disposable cup, first developed in 1971 and manufactured by the Japanese food company Nissin Foods. The product was first introduced in the United States as "Cup O' Noodles" in 1972, before being ren ...

that were packaged in Styrofoam cups. ; Mongolian barbecue : is a stir fried dish that was developed by Wu Zhaonan in Taiwan in 1951. Meat and vegetables are cooked on large, round, solid iron griddles at temperatures of up to 300 °C (572 °F). Despite its name, the dish is not Mongolian, and is only loosely related to barbecue. ; Pineapple cake : is a sweet traditional pastry and dessert containing butter, flour, egg, sugar, and pineapple jam or slices. It likely came into fruition around the 16th century when the pineapple, a fruit native to South America, was introduced by the Portuguese presence in Asia.

Games and entertainment

; Connect6 : is a game similar to

Gomoku ''Gomoku'', also called ''five in a row'', is an Abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go (game), Go pieces (black and white stones) on a 15×15 Go board while in the past a 19×19 board was standa ...

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. ; Cat café : was first opened in

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in 1998, which involves a coffee shop with in-house cats that roam freely and interact with customers. The idea since took off and spread around the world.

Science and technology

;A universal crossed molecular beam apparatus : for studying chemical reactions was developed by the Taiwanese chemist Yuan T. Lee. In 1986, Lee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Dudley R. Herschbach and John Polanyi "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes." ;Floating gate transistor : In 1967, Simon Min Sze and Dawon Kahng invented the floating gate transistor, which provides the foundation for many forms of semiconductor memory devices. ;Discovering HAART Cocktail Therapy : David Ho is a Taiwanese-American medical doctor and HIV/AIDS researcher who was born in Taiwan and has made many innovative state of the art scientific contributions to the understanding and technological treatment of HIV infection. ;The integrated laptop projector : was first developed and showcased by Asus, a Taiwanese computer manufacturer, in 2008. The built-in projector debuted at Computex Taipei 2008, an annual computer expo. Competitors such as HP in 2010 and Fujitsu in 2011 have since released similar products. ;Refinement of Charged Meltblown Filtration : Certain charged filtration media manufacturing processes used in modern

respirators A respirator is a device designed to protect the wearer from inhaling hazardous atmospheres including lead, lead fumes, vapors, gases and particulate matter such as dusts and airborne pathogens such as viruses. There are two main categories o ...

were invented by Peter Tsai. ;The optimistic concurrency control : method was first proposed by Taiwanese computer scientist H. T. Kung and American John T. Robinson in 1981. ; Pop a Point Pencil :a stackable pencil or non-sharpening pencil. It is a type of pencil where many short pencil tips are housed in a cartridge-style plastic holder. A blunt tip is removed by pulling it from the writing end of the body and re-inserting it into the open-ended bottom of the body, thereby pushing a new tip to the top. It is pioneered by Taiwanese stationery manufacturer Bensia Pioneer Industrial Corporation in the early 1970s. ;

USB flash drive A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. A typical USB drive is removable, rewritable, and smaller than an optical disc, and u ...

: a data storage device, invented by Pua Khein-Seng, a Taiwanese-Malaysian inventor. ; Xiaoluren : the walking green man, is the animated traffic light system. ; High entropy alloys : invented in 2004 by Jien-Wei Yeh and his team in Taiwan. ;

WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a family of wireless broadband communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 set of standards, which provide physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) options. The WiMA ...

:a wireless broadband communication standards invented by Tatung Company accompanied with Tatung University.

Language and writing system

; Taiwan Sign Language : is the

sign language Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulation in combination with #Non-manual elements, no ...

most commonly used by the deaf and hard of hearing in

. ; Taiwanese Braille : is the

braille Braille ( , ) is a Tactile alphabet, tactile writing system used by blindness, blind or visually impaired people. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone device ...

script used in

for

Taiwanese Mandarin Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as ''Guoyu'' () or ''Huayu'' (), is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many also speak a variety of Min Chinese ...

(''Guoyu'').

Sports

; 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. The International Woodball Federation is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Weapons and military

Assault rifle

* XT-97 Assault Rifle * T91 assault rifle * T86 assault rifle * T65 assault rifle

Sniper rifle

* T93 sniper rifle

Submachine gun

* Type 77 submachine gun

Machine gun

* T74 Machine Gun * T75 Light machine gun

Pistol

* T75 pistol

Grenade launcher

* Kestrel

Others

XTR-101/102 XTR-101 and XTR-102 are a pair of automatic close-defense 20mm remote weapon systems produced by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology of Taiwan. The XTR-101 features a single T-75 cannon while the XTR-102 features two of t ...

* CS/MPQ-90 Bee Eye

References

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