Brazilian priest Landell de Moura, the inventor of the radio

[Lutador Branco]

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Had radio been invented by a simple Brazilian cleric?


Landell de Moura was the first to develop a wireless technology for voice transmissionLandell de Moura was the first to develop a wireless technology for voice transmission


In the nineteenth century, the development and spread of the Second Industrial Revolution already showed man that time is money . Perhaps for this reason, this period was not only marked by the invention of new manufacturing machines, but also by several other inventions that shortened the sending of information and streamlined the execution of commercial transactions . It was from there that the means of communication gained importance in the expansion of capital.

It was at this time that several scholars were investigating a way to improve communication tools by combining the use of the electric telegraph , electromagnetic radiation and the wired telephone . The combination of these three technologies would be largely responsible for the invention of radio , which had been patented in 1901 by the Italian physicist Guillermo Marconi . Given the importance of the feat, this scientist ended up being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics .

Contrary to this official record, we have a group of enthusiasts from Rio Grande do Sul who attribute the invention of the radio to a Catholic priest named Roberto Landell de Moura . According to reports, on June 3, 1900, this priest gathered press figures, politicians and other personalities to demonstrate his invention on Avenida Paulista . Without using wires, the priest managed to transmit human voice and telegraphic signals over an incredible distance of eight kilometers .

As a resident of a country that was still essentially agrarian, Landell ended up not getting the projection and sponsorship necessary to commercially manufacture his invention. Disheartened by the result of his intellectual effort, he ended up going to the United States to patent his inventions that transmit information and voice. In October 1902, the North American newspaper “The New York Herald” spoke of his inventions and conducted an interview with the Brazilian cleric.

In Landell's testimony, we can see the difficulties he faced at the time to continue his research. In addition to stressing that his intention was to show that the Church was not an enemy of science, Landell de Moura made a point of reporting that, while he was in Brazil, he was persecuted by people who believed he had some kind of diabolical pact . The persecution has reached the point where a bunch of fanatics invaded his premises and destroyed his work tools.

In recent years, books on the priest's life and internet campaigns have sought ways to publicize the importance of Landell de Moura for Brazilian science and correct the historical error regarding the discovery of radio. Regardless of the outcome of this “historical crusade”, we can see that the history of this ingenious priest shows us the limitations of a time when technology and education were concerns relegated to oblivion.

By Rainer Gonçalves Sousa

[Nikola Bijeliti]

When I was a kid, we were taught that Marconi invented the radio. Then later I learned that Tesla invented the radio. And now you're telling me that Landell de Moura invented the radio. I guess many people invented the radio.

[Lutador Branco]

Originally Posted by Nikola Bijeliti

When I was a kid, we were taught that Marconi invented the radio. Then later I learned that Tesla invented the radio. And now you're telling me that Landell de Moura invented the radio. I guess many people invented the radio.

Yes, it's an interesting subject.

Brazilian priest Landell de Moura was the first scientist in the world to transmit the human voice over radio waves, but he did not get government support, and the Church thought he was doing witchcraft.

Furthermore, Landell de Moura himself did not bother to patent the invention, because he thought that his invention belonged to Brazil.

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Father Roberto Landell de Moura, first scientist in the world to transmit the human voice by radio waves


If he were alive, Father Landell would be turning 160 years old this Thursday (21). Born in 1861, in Porto Alegre, he was the first scientist in the world to transmit the human voice through the air using radio waves. And it did so publicly on at least two occasions that were documented by the press at the time: the first in 1899, and the second in the following year, well before the experiments carried out by other scientists.

The Italian Guglielmo Marconi, for example, mistakenly considered the inventor of radio in several countries, invented the wireless telegraph in 1895, with dots and dashes in Morse code. He would also transmit the human voice over radio waves in 1914. That is, much later. A decade earlier, Landell, even with limitations determined by religious practice, and lack of resources, was already studying how to transmit images and texts by electromagnetic waves – the same "road" he used to transmit the human voice and musical sounds. The same path that allowed it to evolve into the creation of various "wireless" inventions, such as the cell phone.

"Father Landell carried out the first wireless transmission of human voice by radio waves in the history of mankind. The feat happened on July 16, 1899, when he was parish priest in the Santa Cruz chapel, in the Santana neighborhood, in the north of the city of São Paulo. On June 3, 1900, he repeated the experiment connecting Alto de Santana to Avenida Paulista, eight kilometers in a straight line. ", recall Eduardo Ribeiro, journalist and director of the Jornalistas&Cia newsletter , and Hamilton Almeida, journalist, researcher and biographer in an article in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper.

Journalist Hamilton Almeida learned about Landell's story even before he worked at the Zero Hora newspaper, in Porto Alegre, and always sought information about the scientist-priest's efforts to enable the industrialization of radio in the country, at the same time in that projected, in an unprecedented way, television and telex. His line of research is the same that led us to the cordless phone and the cell phone.

Landell fought bravely, while he could, patented his inventions both in Brazil and in the United States, where he lived for a few years, but he was unable to commercialize his inventions. He was ignored by the authorities, ridiculed by the faithful, who even invaded and destroyed his experiments, alleging that he had a part with the devil. Landell de Moura died in 1928 in ostracism.

"The obscurantism won him, but it could not erase him from memory. Father Landell is worthy, due to his legacy, to leave the condition of a character on the margins of history to occupy a prominent place in the history of radio and telecommunications", they state Almeida e Ribeiro at the end of the text that recalls the legacy left by the priest-scientist born in the South.

Journalist Hamilton de Almeida has been studying and researching the trajectory of Landell de Moura for 40 years. In 2006 he published Landell de Moura – Um hero without glory (The Brazilian who invented radio, TV and teletype) . In 2021, after further and extensive research in Italy and the United States, he will deliver his masterpiece Padre Landell: the Brazilian who invented wireless . Hamilton's conclusion is that if Landell de Moura had obtained resources, Brazil would today occupy a leading role in telecommunications. The country would have started ahead in this area. In the beginning, it would be an exporter and not an importer of technology, as it turned out to be.

[Ray Allan]

Furthermore, Landell de Moura himself did not bother to patent the invention, because he thought that his invention belonged to Brazil.

That is unfortunate he didn't and beat Marconi to the punch. Very similar circumstance between Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell with the invention of the telephone. Nonetheless, it shows how creative and inventive we Whites are, head and shoulders above other races.

[Lutador Branco]

Originally Posted by Ray Allan

That is unfortunate he didn't and beat Marconi to the punch. Very similar circumstance between Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell with the invention of the telephone. Nonetheless, it shows how creative and inventive we Whites are, head and shoulders above other races.

Yes, Comrade Ray.

And since you mentioned the invention of the telephone, I'm going to want to know more about the story of Elisha Gray and Graham Bell.

[Ray Allan]

Originally Posted by Lutador Branco

Yes, Comrade Ray.

And since you mentioned the invention of the telephone, I'm going to want to know more about the story of Elisha Gray and Graham Bell.

Lutador, I'm sure you know about this:

The amazing story of how Emperor of Brazil Dom Pedro II discovered Bell's telephone. This is Brazil.

The amazing story of how Emperor of Brazil Dom Pedro II discovered Bell's telephone. This is Brazil.

[Lutador Branco]

Originally Posted by Ray Allan

Lutador, I'm sure you know about this:

The amazing story of how Emperor of Brazil Dom Pedro II discovered Bell's telephone. This is Brazil.

Thanks for the wonderful video, Comrade Ray.

Yes, that's why they say that the Brazilian Emperor Pedro II ''saved'' the wonderful American invention of the telephone, because the Emperor gave the attention that this invention deserved, and aroused the attention of the exhibition's participants.

The Emperor was sincerely delighted with the phone, and then ordered to buy phones like this to be installed in Brazil.

[Gladiatrix]

Well at least nobody said it was the Mexicans.

Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio (Official Video)

Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio (Official Video)

[Stewart Meadows]

Originally Posted by Lutador Branco

Brazilian priest Landell de Moura was the first scientist in the world to transmit the human voice over radio waves, but he did not get government support, and the Church thought he was doing witchcraft.

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[Lutador Branco]

Originally Posted by Stewart Meadows

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Yes, Comrade Stewart...

Father Landell de Moura's hierarchical superiors in the Clergy of the Church, and also people of the people, thought that he was doing witchcraft and that he had made a pact with the Devil...

[Lutador Branco]

Originally Posted by Gladiatrix

Well at least nobody said it was the Mexicans.

Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio (Official Video)

Thank you Comrade Gladiatrix for the fun video.

[Lutador Branco]

Brazilian priest Landell de Moura created the radio on June 3, 1900, in São Paulo, Brazil, and patented it in New York, USA.

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01/17/2011 at 13:12
Landell or Marconi? each one in his
Written by: Hamilton Almeida
Source: Zero Hora

Marconi did not invent the radio. The first radio transmission in the world was made in the last years of the 19th century by the priest-scientist from Rio Grande do Sul, Roberto Landell de Moura. These statements may sound strange to those who learned – and the information is widespread – that the Italian Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio. Marconi and Landell pioneered wireless remote message transmissions. But their devices were different.

While Marconi transmitted signals in Morse code (set of dots and dashes), Landell went further, transmitting the human voice through electromagnetic waves – radio as we know it – or a light beam. And, by using light, the Brazilian put into action the same principle as laser and optical fibers, developed in the 1980s.

What Marconi invented was the wireless telegraph, a system that in his time was also called radiotelegraphy. Hence the “confusion” with the term radio, which can be a prefix. In the sense of the word, Marconi's radiotelegraphy is different from Landell's radiotelephony, although they use electromagnetic waves as a means of transmission. In short, telecommunications were born with wire and evolved into the wireless era. Just as there was telegraphy (Samuel Morse) and wired telephony (Graham Bell), there was also radiotelegraphy (Marconi) and radiotelephony (Landell).

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