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Manueline , an art style of the early 16th centuryNeo-Manueline , a revival art style from the mid-19th centurySoft Portuguese style , is an architectural model adopted mainly by public buildingsPombaline style , an architectural style of the 18th centuryPortuguese colonial architecture , a collection of styles of architecture that the Portuguese built across the Portuguese Empire Visigothic art and architecture , architecture and art styles of the Iberian Visigoths in the 5th centuryAzulejo , a form of painted tin-glazed ceramic tileworkPortuguese pavement , a traditional-style pavement used in pedestrian areasAdufe , a square tambourineUkulele , string instrumental developed by Portuguese immigrants in HawaiiGaita transmontana , a type of Portuguese bagpipeGalician gaita , a type of Portuguese and Galician bagpipe.Portuguese guitar , a plucked string instrument with twelve steel stringsRabeca chuleira , a three-string fiddleCavaquinho , a small string instrument that originated the UkuleleMachete , a small string instrument from Madeira Viola braguesa , a ten-string instrumentViola campaniça , a ten steel string guitarViola amarantina , a ten string guitar with two heart-shaped frontal openingsViola toeira , a twelve string guitar
Food and Cooking
Presunto ibérico , a type of cured hamPortuguese cuisine Enchidos , a variety of cured, dry sausagesAlheira , a type of sausage made with meats other than pork (usually veal, duck, chicken, quail or rabbit) and breadSão Jorge cheese , a type of semi-hard to hard cheeseCastelo Branco cheese , type of goat cheeseSerra da Estrela cheese , a type of ewes cheesePort wine , a type of fortified wineMoscatel , a type of fortified wineMadeira wine , a type of fortified wineJeropiga , a type of fortified white wineVinho Verde , a type of white wine fermented using young grapesPastel de nata , an egg tart pastryTempura , a Japanese dish introduced to Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionariesMarmalade , a type of fruit preserveChurros , a type of fried-dough pastry brought by the Portuguese from China
Nautical Science
Carrack , a three- or four-masted sailing shipCaravel , a small, highly maneuverable sailing shipSquare-rigged caravel , a sailing shipNonius , a system for taking fine measurements on the astrolabeMariner's astrolabe , an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a shipPortuguese nautical cartography , a compendium of navigational and geographic mapsCantino planisphere , the earliest extant nautical chart where places are depicted according to their astronomically observed latitudesSchool of Sagres , first court of navigation founded in SagresChip log , a navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through waterVolta do mar , a navigation technique that exploits trade winds to move across the sea
Weaponry
Science and Technology
Familial amyloidotic neuropathy , a group of autosomal dominant diseases of the nervous system first described by Corino Andrade Circulatory system , Amato Lusitano discovered the circulation of the blood and the function of valvesCerebral angiography , developed by António Egas Moniz Lobotomy , pioneered by António Egas Moniz Tropical medicine , pioneered by Garcia de Orta Pyreliophorus , solar ovenPrepaid Mobile Phone , a mobile phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service useMultibanco , an interbank network with a wide range of services that can be utilised through its machinesAll-on-4 , a dental technique for total rehabilitation of the edentulous patientVia Verde , an electronic toll collection systemColoradd , a sign code for aiding colour blind people to recognise coloursPassarola , a type of lighter-than-air airship, the predecessor of air balloonArtificial horizon sextant , an airship device to measure the distance between the horizon line and celestial bodiesMicrophone Windshield [ 1] Electric wheelchair elevator [ 2] Electronic cane for the blind [ 3] Electrovisor , a tactile system for the blind to perceive images[ 4] BASIL , vibratory system for deaf people to perceive sounds[ 5] COPASI , software application for creating and solving mathematical models of biological processesEslicarbazepine acetate , anticonvulsant medicationDeaf-mute language , pioneered by Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
Literature
Heteronym , a literary concept in which one or several imaginary character(s) are created by a writer to write in different stylesUltra-Romanticism , a literary movement derived from the Romanticism that took place on the second half of the 19th century
References
^ Filipe, Jaime - "As bolas de vento para microfones, nasceram em Portugal". Inventiva n.º 33. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. Março de 1981.
^ Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 1. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade, Dezembro de 1984.
^ Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 7. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade.
^ Filipe, Jaime - "Dar vista aos cegos". Inventiva. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. Outubro de 1977.
^ Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 6. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. 1986.
