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2. Leonardo's fighting vehicle - Wikipedia

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   However in the documentary "Da Vinci's Machines" (2009), a team of engineers and craftsmen undertook the challenge of reconstructing Leonardo da Vinci's design for an armored vehicle, commonly referred to as his tank, the successful operation and movement of the tank by fixing the purposely placed design flaw with the gearing not only validated ...

3. Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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   The Death of Leonardo da Vinci, by Ingres, 1818 [u] The 19th century brought a particular admiration for Leonardo's genius, causing Henry Fuseli to write in 1801: "Such was the dawn of modern art, when Leonardo da Vinci broke forth with a splendour that distanced former excellence: made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of ...

4. Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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   The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, held an exhibition called "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, and Design" in 2006; Logitech Museum "The Da Vinci Machines Exhibition" was held in a pavilion in the Cultural Forecourt, at South Bank, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 2009.

5. Leonardo's aerial screw - Wikipedia

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   Detail of Leonardo's "aerial screw" The page of Paris Manuscript B, folio 83v, that depicts Leonardo's aerial screw, held by the Institut de France The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci drew his design for an "aerial screw" in the late 1480s, while he was employed as a military engineer by Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.

6. Leonardo's robot - Wikipedia

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   Model of Leonardo's robot with inner workings, on display in Berlin. Leonardo's robot, or Leonardo's mechanical knight (Italian: Automa cavaliere, lit."Automaton knight"), is a humanoid automaton designed and possibly constructed by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 15th century.

7. Leonardo's crossbow - Wikipedia

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   The crossbow as a weapon had been around long before Leonardo's designs. However, his designs made the weapon more advanced and why Leonardo's crossbows stands out. If a crossbow is designed with a narrower shaft and a tapered bolt, which adjusts the nocking of arrows, it greatly improves the airflow of the bow and the drag on arrows.

8. Vebjørn Sand Da Vinci Project - Wikipedia

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   The Vebjørn Sand da Vinci Project built a laminated-wood parabolic-arch pedestrian bridge in Norway over European route E18 in Ås, Norway, in 2000. It was a partnership between the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and the Norwegian painter and artist Vebjørn Sand , who headed the project.

9. Early flying machines - Wikipedia

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   Leonardo da Vinci's design for a pyramid-shaped parachute remained unpublished for centuries. The first published design was the Croatian Fausto Veranzio 's homo volans (flying man) which appeared in his book Machinae novae (New machines) in 1595.