Roberto Landell de Moura

Father Roberto Landell de Moura
Born(1861-01-22)22 January 1861
Died30 June 1928(1928-06-30) (aged 67)
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do sul, Brazil
Known forcommunications technologies

Father Roberto Landell de Moura (January 21, 1861 – June 30, 1928), commonly known as Roberto Landell, was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and inventor. He is best known for his attempts in the 1880s to develop long-distance audio transmissions device that combined an improved megaphone device and a photophone (using light beams).[1] Landell received patents in Brazil and the United States during the first decade of the 1900s in which he also included designs that he claimed could transmit voice using radio waves.[2]

  1. ^ "Landell de Moura, Father Roberto 1861-1928 Brazilian Wireless Pioneer" by Edward A. Riedinger, from Encyclopedia of Radio 3-Volume Set, edited by Christopher H. Sterling (2003), Routledge, 1696 pages.
  2. ^ "Early Wireless: Landell and Tesla" by Robert Henry Lochte, The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Radio, 2004, page 519.