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. Patent - 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
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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
Landell’s U.S. 3 patents was cited in the References of other inventions registered with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Antenna. Patent No. 2,423,648, of July 8, 1947, by Clarence W. Hansell (RCA). Cites the Wireless Telegraph;
• Means for supplying pulses of modulated current. Patent No. 2,437,315, of March 9, 1948, by Paul N. Bossart (Union Switch & Signal Co). Cites the Wave Transmitter;
• Radio and visual warning device. Patent No. 2,475,578, of July 5, 1949, by William S. Halstead (Farnsworth Research Corp.). Cites the Wave Transmitter and the Wireless Telephone;
• Device for detecting variations in fluid pressure. Patent No. 2,583,941, of January 29, 1952, by Thurlow M. Gordon Jr. Cites the Wave Transmitter;
• Method and apparatus for transmitting information using arc. Patent No. 5,220,246, of June 15, 1993 (Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha). Cites the Wave Transmitter;
• Adaptive modulation and data embedding in light for advanced lighting control. Patent No. US 2013/0069540 A1, of March 21, 2013, by Tim Corneel Wilhelmus Schenk, Lorenzo Feri, and Hongming Yang (Philips). Cites the Wave Transmitter.
This set of references means that, even decades later, Landell’s creations were useful, being an inspiration to other inventors in the development of more sophisticated devices and models.
From the book ” Landell. The priest who invented wireless and faced science deniers” by Hamilton Almeida