List of Brazilian inventions and discoveries

Brazilian inventions and discoveries are items, processes, techniques or discoveries which owe their existence either partially or entirely to a person born in Brazil or to a citizen of Brazil.

Physics[]

• Pion by César Lattes, one of the discoverers

Medicine[]

Diseases[]

• Bradykinin by Mauricio Rocha e Silva, Wilson Teixeira Beraldo and Gastão Rosenfeld
• Chagas disease, pathogen, vector, host, clinical manifestations and epidemiology discovery, by Carlos Chagas
• Epidemic typhus, pathogen discovery, by Henrique da Rocha Lima
• Schistosomiasis, disease cycle discovery, by Pirajá da Silva

Procedures, techniques or medicines[]

• Chest photofluorography by Manuel Dias de Abreu
• Jatene procedure by Adib Jatene
• Anti-ophidic serum by Vital Brazil, he is also credited as the first to develop anti-scorpion and anti-spider serums, in 1908 and 1925, respectively

Engineering and electronics[]

• Caller ID by Nélio José Nicolai
• Airplane (first unassisted flight) by Alberto Santos-Dumont
• DRE voting machine, the first Direct-Recording Electronic Voting Machine was implemented in Brazil by Judge in the Southern City of Brusque, back in 1989
• Automatic transmission using hydraulic fluid by José Braz Araripe and Fernando Lehly Lemos.

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