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
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
- Airplane (first unassisted flight) by Alberto Santos-Dumont
- 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
- Personal stereo (the father of the Walkman) by Andreas Pavel (later sold to Sony)
- Automatic transmission using hydraulic fluid by José Braz Araripe and Fernando Lehly Lemos.