List of Brazilian inventions and discoveries
Brazilian inventions and discoveries are items, processes, techniques or discoveries which owe their existence either partially or entirely to a person born in Brazil or to a citizen of Brazil.
Physics
- Pion by César Lattes, one of the discoverers
Maths
- Introduction to the concept of spectrum in topology, by Elon Lages Lima in 1958
- Peixoto's Theorem, by Maurício Peixoto in 1959
- Costa's minimal surface by Celso José da Costa in 1982
Medicine
Diseases
- Bradykinin by Mauricio Rocha e Silva, Wilson Teixeira Beraldo and Gastão Rosenfeld
- Chagas disease, pathogen, vector, host, clinical manifestations and epidemiology discovery, by Carlos Chagas
- Epidemic typhus, pathogen discovery, by Henrique da Rocha Lima
- Schistosomiasis, disease cycle discovery, by Pirajá da Silva
Procedures, techniques or medicines
- Chest photofluorography by Manuel Dias de Abreu
- Jatene procedure by Adib Jatene
- Anti-ophidic serum by Vital Brazil, he is also credited as the first to develop anti-scorpion and anti-spider serums, in 1908 and 1925, respectively
Engineering and electronics
- Caller ID by Nélio José Nicolai
- DRE voting machine, the first Direct-Recording Electronic Voting Machine was implemented in Brazil by Judge Carlos Prudêncio in the Southern City of Brusque, back in 1989
- Automatic transmission using hydraulic fluid by José Braz Araripe and Fernando Lehly Lemos.
- Electric shower, by Francisco Canhos Navarro.[1]
- Orelhão by Chu Ming Silveira.[2]
- Leme panoramic camera by Sebastião Carvalho Leme
Miscellaneous
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu martial art and combat sport created in the 1920s.
- Vanishing spray a substance applied to an association football pitch in order to provide a temporary visual marker, was created by Brazilian inventor Heine Allemagne.
- Lua (programming language) created in 1993 by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, and Waldemar Celes from Tecgraf.
References
- ^ "Conheça tecnologias e serviços que foram criados por brasileiros". TechTudo (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-25.
- ^ Padrão, Consumidor Moderno-Grupo (2017-05-08). "As 20 maiores invenções feitas no Brasil ou por brasileiros". Consumidor Moderno (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-06-26.