List of Portuguese inventions and discoveries explained

Portuguese inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented or discovered by Portuguese people.

Arts and entertainment

Manueline, an art style of the early 16th century
Neo-Manueline, a revival art style from the mid-19th century
Soft Portuguese style, is an architectural model adopted mainly by public buildings
Pombaline style, an architectural style of the 18th century
Portuguese colonial architecture, a collection of styles of architecture that the Portuguese built across the Portuguese Empire
Visigothic art and architecture, architecture and art styles of the Iberian Visigoths in the 5th century
Azulejo, a form of painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework
Portuguese pavement, a traditional-style pavement used in pedestrian areas
Adufe, a square tambourine
Ukulele, string instrumental developed by Portuguese immigrants in Hawaii
Gaita transmontana, a type of Portuguese bagpipe
Galician gaita, a type of Portuguese and Galician bagpipe.
Portuguese guitar, a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings
Rabeca chuleira, a three-string fiddle
Cavaquinho, a small string instrument that originated the Ukulele
Machete, a small string instrument from Madeira
Viola braguesa, a ten-string instrument
Viola campaniça, a ten steel string guitar
Viola amarantina, a ten string guitar with two heart-shaped frontal openings
Viola toeira, a twelve string guitar

Presunto ibérico, a type of cured ham
Enchidos, a variety of cured, dry sausages
Alheira, a type of sausage made with meats other than pork (usually veal, duck, chicken, quail or rabbit) and bread
São Jorge cheese, a type of semi-hard to hard cheese
Castelo Branco cheese, type of goat cheese
Serra da Estrela cheese, a type of ewes cheese
Port wine, a type of fortified wine
Moscatel, a type of fortified wine
Madeira wine, a type of fortified wine
Jeropiga, a type of fortified white wine
Vinho Verde, a type of white wine fermented using young grapes
Pastel de nata, an egg tart pastry
Tempura, a Japanese dish introduced to Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries
Marmalade, a type of fruit preserve
Churros, a type of fried-dough pastry brought by the Portuguese from China

Carrack, a three- or four-masted sailing ship
Galleon, a large sailing warship
Caravel, a small, highly maneuverable sailing ship
Square-rigged caravel, a large sailing ship
- Man-of-war, a powerful warship armed with cannons and propelled by sails Line of battle, a tactic of naval warfare where a fleet of ships forms a line end to end
Gun port, an opening on the side of a ship's hull that allows artillery pieces to fire outside
Broadside, a development in naval warfare where cannons are mounted on and fired from the sides of a ship
Nonius, a system for taking fine measurements on the astrolabe
Mariner's astrolabe, an inclinometer used to determine the latitude of a ship
Portuguese nautical cartography, a compendium of navigational and geographic maps
Cantino planisphere, the earliest extant nautical chart where places are depicted according to their astronomically observed latitudes
School of Sagres, first court of navigation founded in Sagres
Chip log, a navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through water
Volta do mar, a navigation technique that exploits trade winds to move across the sea

Carracks black sword, a type of sword designed to be used by soldiers and sailors in ships and caravels
Dilagrama m/65, a grenade adapter that fits the barrel of the G3
FBP submachine gun, a 9 mm submachine gun
Mauser–Vergueiro, a bolt-action rifle
Lusa submachine gun, a compact 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun
Bravia Chaimite, an armored vehicle with all wheel drive axles
M1940 helmet, a combat helmet

Familial amyloidotic neuropathy, a group of autosomal dominant diseases of the nervous system first described by Corino Andrade
Circulatory system, Amato Lusitano discovered the circulation of the blood and the function of valves
Cerebral angiography, developed by António Egas Moniz
Lobotomy, pioneered by António Egas Moniz
Tropical medicine, pioneered by Garcia de Orta
Pyreliophorus, solar oven
Herrmann wall telephone
Prepaid Mobile Phone, a mobile phone for which credit is purchased in advance of service use
Multibanco, an interbank network with a wide range of services that can be utilised through its machines
All-on-4, a dental technique for total rehabilitation of the edentulous patient
Via Verde, an electronic toll collection system
Coloradd, a sign code for aiding colour blind people to recognise colours
Passarola, a type of lighter-than-air airship, the predecessor of air balloon
Artificial horizon sextant, an airship device to measure the distance between the horizon line and celestial bodies
Microphone Windshield^[1]
Electric wheelchair elevator^[2]
Electronic cane for the blind^[3]
Electrovisor, a tactile system for the blind to perceive images^[4]
BASIL, vibratory system for deaf people to perceive sounds^[5]
COPASI, software application for creating and solving mathematical models of biological processes
Eslicarbazepine acetate, anticonvulsant medication
Deaf-mute language, pioneered by Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
ENER 1000, an early personal computer

Heteronym, a literary concept in which one or several imaginary character(s) are created by a writer to write in different styles
Ultra-Romanticism, a literary movement derived from the Romanticism that took place in the second half of the 19th century

Filipe, Jaime - "As bolas de vento para microfones, nasceram em Portugal". Inventiva n.º 33. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. Março de 1981.
Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 1. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade, Dezembro de 1984.
Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 7. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade.
Filipe, Jaime - "Dar vista aos cegos". Inventiva. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. Outubro de 1977.
Boletim Informativo Inventiva n.º 6. Associação Portuguesa de Criatividade. 1986.