Father Landell

Inventions & Patents

”-in my childhood, I was impressed by the marks of the moon, the moral decline of the poor and the scientific matters”.

– Roberto Landell de Moura

1st Patent - Brazil, 1901

Wire and wireless distance transmitter

Registered with the Brazilian government in March 9th 1901 under the “phonetic equipment for distance transmission, wire and wireless, across the space, earth and water”. Patent No 3.279 

 

1st U.S.A. Pantent - 1904

Wave Transmitter

Registered in The United States Patent Office, Washington D.C., U.S.A. as Wave Transmitter (radio waves). Patent No 771.917. October 11th 1904

2nd U.S.A Pantent - 1904

Wireless Telephone

Registered in The United States Patent Office, Washington D.C., U.S.A. as Wireless Telephone. Patent No 775.337. November 22nd 1904.

3rd U.S.A Pantent - 1904

Wireless Telegraph

Registered in The United States Patent Office, Washington D.C., U.S.A. as Wireless Telegraph. Patent No775.846. November 22nd 1904.

Television Prototype - 1904

Telephotorama

Still in the USA, in 1904 Landell draw a project for image transmission at distance, a TV Prototype. 

 

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Another Invention Project - 1904

Landelgraph

In the New York, September 5th, 1904, Father Landell wrote in his own handwriting, in English, about his other invention addressed to Mr. Edward Davidson, the Landelgraph, a wireless phonic and graphic apparatus , operated by electrical impulses, with a transmitting and receiving station.

 

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Others Inventions and Drawings

Landelphon, Telephoro and others

IHGRGS collection

 

Drawings

Possibly trying to solve other communication problems, Father Landell even designed a type of Teletype, or Telex, that is, the transmission of texts over a distance without wires.

 

From the book ” Padre Landell: O brasileiro que inventou o wireless” by Hamilton Almeida

”If attention is lacking, there can be no reflection; if there is a lack of reflection, there can be no consciousness; if there is a lack of consciousness, the act may be from man, but never human”.

– Roberto Landell de Moura

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