José Carlos de Carvalho Júnior

José Carlos de Carvalho (father)
Antonia de Ferraz de Carvalho (mother)

Military serviceAllegiance

Empire of BrazilBranch/service

Imperial Brazilian NavyYears of service1865–1911RankRear AdmiralCommandsHead of the NavyBattles/warsParaguayan War

José Carlos de Carvalho Júnior (2 September 1847 – 28 February 1934) was a Brazilian rear admiral and politician in the Empire of Brazil,^[1] best known for his service in the Paraguayan War and his role in the expedition carried out to the interior of Bahia in 1887 to recover the Bendegó meteorite from where it had been laying for more than a hundred years since the first attempt to remove it made in 1785 and transport it to the court in Rio de Janeiro.^[2]

Gallery

José Carlos de Carvalho, Gaston of Orléans and Isabel, imperial princess, visiting a plant dedicated to the manufacturing of military equipment, 1886.
Report presented to the Ministry of Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works and to the Geographical Society of Rio de Janeiro on the displacement and transport of the Bendegó meteorite from the interior of the province of Bahia to the National Museum.
Bendegó meteorite in a photograph by H. Antunes, taken in 1887, showing the meteorite still on the bank of the Bendegó stream, with vice admiral José Carlos de Carvalho and engineers Humberto Saraiva Antunes and Vicente José de Carvalho.

References

^ "Calls America a Great School. Rear Admiral de Carvalho of Brazil Says It Contains Lessons for Greatest Students". New York Times. 28 September 1912. Retrieved 18 March 2011. Rear Admiral Jose Carlos de Carvalho, head of the navy of Brazil and Vice President of the Brazilian commission to the third International Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition at the Grand Central Palace, is a great admirer of this country. He declared yesterday at the rubber show that he would take back many American ideas for adoption in Brazil. ...
^ Dantas, Regina Maria Macedo Costa; Silva, Paulo Vinicius Aprígio da (2016). "Uma análise histórica sobre o meteorito de Bendegó e sua representação científica junto ao Museu Nacional" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Florianópolis. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)