Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, Brazilian/Portuguese cleric and inventor (Santos, São Paulo State December 1865 – Toledo, Spain 18 November 1724)

Worked as cryptographer 

INVENTIONS

Hot-air balloon (Passarola) considered as the first operational aerostat (1709) much years earlier than Montgolfier Brothers

Lens system to sunburn meat (1713)

Sucking-pressing pump (1705)

Pumping system to drain water from ship’s hold (1707)

Machinery for rational exploration of peat-bogs

A mill faster than others existing until then

Improvements in output of hydraulic mills and sugar engines (1724)

Artificial earth coal (1721)

Paddle-wheel adjustable to single boats (before Kullo)

Patented a hydraulic engine (1724)

It is said that he held 9 inventions, but 8 are in imprecise documentation.