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Portuguese inventions

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Summary

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The Portuguese inventions are the inventions created by the people born in Portugal (continent or overseas), or whose nationality is Portuguese. These inventions were created mainly during the age of Portuguese discoveries, and during modernity.

Relying on trade secret explains, in part, the difficulty often experienced by researchers in documenting Portuguese inventions, as many are not described in patent documents, or other technical documents. On the other hand, there are cases, like some types of swords, where the inventions themselves or the underlying documents were lost, having been destroyed, for example, during the French invasions. There are as well documentation and objects of Portuguese origin in private collections or museums outside of Portugal.

Discoveries

Main article: Portuguese discoveries, List of Portuguese inventions and discoveries

The creation of new inventions in Portugal was at its peak during the Age of Discovery. These inventions consisted mainly in the improvement of devices and techniques of ocean navigation and coastal cartography, such as the mariner's astrolabe and the chart of latitudes. On the field of military applications, the construction of cannons and new types of swords, like the Carracks black sword.

Modernity

More recently, the technical domain varies from computers to medicine. Such examples might be Via Verde, an automatic system for collecting tolls for vehicles; the Multibanco, an automatic teller machine network with a multitude of functions ranging from bank transfers to the payment of tickets for shows; or in the field of medicine, a treatment of epilepsy, the drug Zebinix by Bial Laboratories.

Gallery of Portuguese inventions

File:Frol de la mar in roteiro de malaca.jpeg|Carrack (Nau) – the Oceanic Carrack (a new and different model, and largest carrack) File:Galleon, Carracks, Galley and Galeota- Routemap of the Red Sea-1540 by D. João de Castro.jpg|Galleon – the Oceanic Galleon File:Ships from da Gama’s 2nd voyage 1502.jpg|Square-rigged caravel – Round caravel. The most enduring and replicated model of the ships with this name, and predecessor of other ships of the range. File:Nonio originale.jpg|The nonius File:Astrolábio Náutico - Aveiro.png|The mariner's astrolabe File:Passarola.png|The Passarola, the first known airship File:Padre himalaya.jpeg|The Pyreliophorus File:Tempura 02.jpg|Tempura File:Homemade marmalade, England.jpg|Marmalade File:Eslicarbazepine acetate structure.svg|The drug Zebinix File:Carracks black sword.jpg|The Carracks black sword File:Cerebral angiography, arteria vertebralis sinister injection.JPG|Cerebral angiography File:Via Verde Almada 2007 12 08.jpg|The Via Verde toll collection system File:3D All-on-4 technique.ogv|The All-on-4 dental method File:Bridgetown top-up.jpg|Prepaid mobile phone File:Multibanco.svg|Multibanco File:Coloradd.png|Coloradd File:Herrmann wall phone.jpg|Herrmann wall telephone

Notes

References

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Robert Bud, Deborah Jean Warner. (1998). "Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia".
"Multibanco português é dos mais avançados do mundo". [[Sociedade Interbancaria de Serviços S.A.]].
"Community register of medicinal products for human use: Exalief". [[European Commission]].
(2013). "PT Foundation > Home > History and Heritage > PT's History > Historical Equipment > Detail > Herrmann wall telephone". Fundação PT.

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