Padre Roberto Landell de Moura offers inventions to British consul

Father Roberto Landell de Moura offered five of his inventions and his research projects to the British government in a letter sent in June 1900. According to the Diocese of São José dos Campos, the priest made this offer to Percy Charles Parmenter Lupton, the British consul in São Paulo, due to a lack of support and recognition for his work in Brazil.

The offer followed a public demonstration of wireless voice transmission conducted by Landell de Moura on June 3, 1900. Lupton served as an official witness to this demonstration. Vatican News notes that the priest's correspondence to the consul revealed a sense of disappointment with his home country while seeking ways to continue his scientific work.