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>[26.Feb.09] General
- Carnival, the Grand Invention
Source: Infomail ABREU, MERKL no. 24
The Brazilian carnival
is one of the biggest and best known popular parties
in the world. In the 2009 carnival parade, in the city
of Rio de Janeiro, the Unidos do Porto da Pedra samba
school dedicated its theme song to innovation: “Do
not forbid me to create, for I need to be curious! I’m
the country of the future and I have much to invent”
(by Max Lopes).
The purpose of the samba
school was to celebrate the curiosity of men, which
throughout the years has resulted in extraordinary achievements.
The traditional, but always creative, fancy costumes
and allegories were somehow alluding to innovation.
One of the samba school’s sections, with approximately
50 “samba dancers”, was composed of scientists,
researchers and other personnel involved in R&D
institutions.
In the section
dedicated to the inventors, the samba school honored
the Brazilian aviation’s father, Santos Dumont
(see also Infomail N º 10/2006) and Thomas Edison,
who had some of his inventions allegorically illustrated,
such as the electric light bulb (see also Infomail N
º 17/2007), the phonograph and the kinetoscope.
The renowned inventor of the radio, Mr. Guglielmo Marconi,
was equally remembered, and it was also told the curious
story of a Brazilian priest, called Robert Landell de
Moura, who carried out a pioneer experience with broadcasting
few years before Mr. Marconi’s patent, but ended
up not having his historical recognition.
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