Roberto Landell de Moura

Roberto Landell de Moura (1861-1928)

Born in 1861, he was educated in Jesuit schools and attended Colegio Pio Americano in Brazil and also the Pontifical Unversidade Gregoriana in Italy, to study physics.(2) He was ordained to the priesthood in 1886 in Rome, where he began studying physics and electricity. He then traveled back to Brazil and taught himself, continuing his studies.(4)

 There he conducted his first public experiment, sending a transmission eight kilometers. He then developed a wireless transmitter in 1892. The Brazilian government granted him patent number 3279 for “... equipment for the purpose of phonetic transmissions through space, land and water elements at a distance with or without the use of wires, through space, earth and water.” (2)

He then obtained a few more wireless patents and left for the US with the intent of repeating the process. He obtained three: the Wave Transmitter, the Wireless Telephone, and the Wireless Telegraph, which appeared to be fully functional.(2) Unappreciated, he returned to the priesthood.(2) He died in 1928.

He was a great inventor, but unfortunately, he was called crazy and spiritist while trying to create his wireless inventions, and shut off from testing his devices. Because of this, he now lies in obscurity.

Sources cited:

(1)Roberto Landell de Moura
https://skankinglozer.weebly.com/

(2)Roberto Landell de Moura http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2014/03/roberto-landell-de-moura.html

(3)Roberto Landell de Moura
https://super.abril.com.br/historia/roberto-landell-de-moura/

(4)Roberto Landell de Moura
http://www.sarmento.eng.br/Padre_Roberto_Landell_de_Moura.htm