Gusmão was born at Santos, then part of the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
He began his novitiate in the Society of Jesus at Bahia when he was about fifteen years old, but left the … 展开

One account of Gusmão's work suggests that the Portuguese Inquisition forbade him to continue his aeronautic investigations and persecuted him because of them, but this is probably a later invention. It dates, however, from at least the end of the 18th … 展开

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In 1709, he presented a petition to King João V of Portugal, seeking royal favour for his invention of an airship, in which he expressed the greatest confidence. The contents of this petition … 展开

In 1936, the Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport was built in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin to operate with the rigid … 展开

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