Retrospect

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Alcohol conversion

Of the three cars that crisscrossed the country to publicize the new fuel in 1976, only one is still standing

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Brick by brick

Studies on global warming have been conducted for 180 years

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Windmill power

Created in the 19th century, wind-generated electricity is expanding worldwide

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Memory

Always in the vanguard

Carmen Portinho helped to change architecture and the arts in Rio de Janeiro

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20th century Bandeirantes (Trailblazers)

121 years ago a wild region of São Paulo began to be explored

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In the days of maxambomba

140 years ago, the country's first urban railroad was inaugurated in Recife.

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The emperors and the mummies

The owner of Latin America's largest Egyptian collection, Brazil looks for resources to excavate in Tanis

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Indigenous cartography

Some 62 years ago, Curt Nimuendaju completed his Mapa Etno-Hist

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Atoms for peace

Ipen completes 50 years with good services rendered by means of nuclear power

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The rebirth of the Patriarch

A project publishes, on-line, documents, books and images brought together about José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

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Creation in concrete

A hundred years ago, reinforced concrete began to be used in Brazil

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Philanthropy and Science

Piracicaba's Old People's Home completes 100 years looking after the elderly with the help of the university

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Driven by passions

José Leite Lopes, who died at the age of 87, leaves a vast range of accomplishments

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The Alienist

Juliano Moreira was the first to publicize Freud in Brazil and to transform psychiatry into a medical specialty

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The multiple scientist

Some 136 years ago Charles Hartt carried out the first archeological research in the Amazon

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Laboratory in the forest

Theodoro Peckolt was a pioneer in the chemical analysis of Brazilian flora in the 19th century

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The plastic age

A hundred years ago, the first synthetic resin was invented

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Forest Watchers

Evandro Chagas Institute completes 70 years of researching endemics in the Amazonian region

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Rupture in the University

40 years ago, 79% of the professorsof the innovative UnB resigned in protest against the military intervention and the expulsion of teaching staff

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Routes of Electricity

First Brazilian hydroelectric power plant to generate power for the population was inaugurated 116 years ago

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The invisible revealing radiation

110 years ago, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays

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Technology and art

511 years ago, Italian Aldo Manuzio was beginning to reinvent the printed book

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Esoteric chemistry

To the joy of historians, manuscripts by Isaac Newton about alchemy are rediscovered

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Difficult to tame

Since the 18th century, people have been trying to generate energy from the sea

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Fire and iron

In the interior of Sao Paulo, the two-hundred-year old Ipanema steel mill is restored

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Central do Brasil Station began to be built 150 years ago

Central do Brasil Station began to be built 150 years ago

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A long journey

Some one hundred and thirty years ago the trajectory of the first Brazilian women doctors began

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Among the stars

The work of César Lattes, who died at eighty years, was fundamental for the detection of the pi meson

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Waters tamed

Thirty years ago, work started on Itaipu, the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world

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New life in Bahia

The first agricultural school in Latin America should become a university

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