🛠️ Invention or technique

Landell de Moura's radiotelephony

Radiotelefonía de Landell de Moura

Date
1900 · confidence medium
Place
São Paulo, Brazil
Credited to
Roberto Landell de Moura
People
👤 Roberto Landell de Moura1861–1928
Field
Communication

⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.

What it is

A Brazilian priest who experimented with the wireless transmission of voice and obtained patents in Brazil (1901) and the United States (1904). He is one of the pioneers of radiotelephony.

The public demonstrations of 1893-1900 are poorly documented; his priority is claimed in Brazil and disputed elsewhere.

What it led to

  • patents for wireless telephony
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