Person poet inventor
João Maurício de Gouveia
b. 1880
poet · inventor
João Gouveia (b. 1880) was a Funchal-born poet, author of Breviário and Atlante, who abandoned verse for mechanics. He invented an aeroplane and later a poultry incubating apparatus. He was the son of Colonel José Maria de Gouveia.
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- Mother of God (chapels) — His heirs owned the Madre de Deus chapel at Caniço in 1921.
- Bombardment of Funchal — Funchal seaman who rescued eight gunboat crew and two Madeiran workers in 1916.
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