# List of Portuguese inventions and discoveries

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

## Food and cooking

* 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

## Nautical science

* 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

## Weaponry

* 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

## Science and technology

* 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
* Electric wheelchair elevator
* Electronic cane for the blind
* Electrovisor, a tactile system for the blind to perceive images
* BASIL, vibratory system for deaf people to perceive sounds
* 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

## Literature

* 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