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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.
The original design of the self-propelled cart (Codex Atlanticus, f.812 r) [1] Leonardo's self-propelled cart is an invention designed by Leonardo da Vinci , considered the ancestor of the modern automobile .
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.
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 ...
Leonardo da Vinci worked on war machines that were almost designed to fail. Public Domain You might know of Leonardo da Vinci for his sketches, art, and occasional inventions, but he also dabbled ...
Milestone: Romans came up with this invention to measure the distances of the roads. Mitre gates: on a Canal lock in a canal, gates that remain closed by the pressure of the water itself; developed and possibly invented by Leonardo da Vinci [144] [145] and still used today in all canals worldwide such as the Panama Canal.
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.
Mar. 2—ALBUQUERQUE — Irene Stamm encouraged her husband, Jason, to wander off to look at the nuclear stuff for a while so she could play with the da Vinci toys. She had a lot to choose from ...