Portuguese inventions
File:Caravela Vera Cruz no rio Tejo.jpg Caravel, one of the naval creations made by the Portuguese{{Cite web|title=A Caravela|trans-title=The Caravel|url=http://www.CienciaViva.pt/projectos/concluidos/inventions/caravela.asp|website=www.CienciaViva.pt|language=pt|publisher=Ciência Viva [Living Science]|date=2002|access-date=3 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.Archive.org/web/20030424183752/http://www.CienciaViva.pt/projectos/concluidos/inventions/caravela.asp|archive-date=24 April 2003|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|last=Wilford|first=John Noble|date=4 June 1985|url=https://www.NYTimes.com/1985/06/04/science/columbus-s-ships-a-quest-for-facs-in-time-for-1992.html?pagewanted=all|title=Columbus's ships: a quest for facs in time for 1992|website=The New York Times|access-date=3 December 2011}}]]
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{{Cite book|last=Daehnhardt|first=Rainer|year=1997|url=http://www.Zefiro.pt/livro_homensespadasetomates2ed.htm|title=Homens Espadas e Tomates|location=Rua Maria, 48-3º - 1170 Lisbon|publisher=Publicações Quipu|pages=255|isbn=972-8408-01-3|access-date=8 September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.Archive.org/web/20120319070214/http://www.Zefiro.pt/livro_homensespadasetomates2ed.htm|archive-date=19 March 2012}} 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.{{Cite book|author=Robert Bud, Deborah Jean Warner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AsFdUxOwu8C&q=museums+portuguese+%22mariner+astrolabes%22+private&pg=PA36|title=Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia|year = 1998|publisher= |page=36|isbn=0-8153-1561-9|via=Google Books}}
Discoveries
{{Main|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;{{Cite web|url=http://www.SIBS.pt/noticia.php?id=137|title=Multibanco português é dos mais avançados do mundo|language=pt|website=www.SIBS.pt|publisher=Sociedade Interbancaria de Serviços S.A.|access-date=19 December 2006|quote=citing Portuguese newspaper Semanário Económico in its 27 October 2006 edition: "A qualidade do sistema português de máquinas Automated Teller Machine (ATM) é reconhecida em qualquer ponto do globo, não só pela modernidade dos equipamentos como pela enorme quantidade de funcionalidades disponíveis." [The quality of the Portuguese system is recognised anywhere in the globe, not only for the modernity of its equipments, but also for the enormous amount of functionalities available.]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.Archive.org/web/20070927043648/http://www.SIBS.pt/noticia.php?id=137|archive-date=27 September 2007}} or in the field of medicine, a treatment of epilepsy, the drug Zebinix by Bial Laboratories.{{Cite web|url=http://EC.Europa.eu/enterprise/pharmaceuticals/register/h520.htm|title=Community register of medicinal products for human use: Exalief|website=EC.Europa.eu|publisher=European Commission|date= |access-date= }}
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{{Cite web|title=PT Foundation > Home > History and Heritage > PT's History > Historical Equipment > Detail > Herrmann wall telephone|url=http://www.Fundacao.Telecom.pt/en/Home/HistoryandHeritage/PTsHistory/HistoricalEquipment/Detail/tabid/350/itemId/545/parId/346/Default.aspx|website=www.Fundacao.Telecom.pt|publisher=Fundação PT|date=2013|access-date= |archive-url=https://web.Archive.org/web/20151122120423/http://www.Fundacao.Telecom.pt/en/Home/HistoryandHeritage/PTsHistory/HistoricalEquipment/Detail/tabid/350/itemId/545/parId/346/Default.aspx|archive-date=22 November 2015|url-status=dead}}
See also
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- List of Portuguese inventions and discoveries
- Armillary sphere
- Ballastella
- Cartaz
- Chip log
- Volta do mar
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