Leonardo DaVinci Machines 4

[0707]

Leonardo da Vince was well beyond of his time. In the XV/XVI century he invented much of the machines of today. He was a visionary

 

[NGiLuzzu]

I agree with josephv, Leonardo was en Engineer: besides many project which remained in the "concept" phase, he also built a lot of things that really worked!

See, for example:

http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/default.htm

Bye to All, 'NGL

 

[prohammy]

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Kevin Hammond

Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK

 

[0707]

 

[KENAT]

thread769-198427 got me thinking, my vote is that Leonardo da Vinci (note I used his full name, didn't want to upset anyone;-) was an engineer.

His training/education was about as good as for any engineer in his time and certainly while many of his ideas were perhaps far fetched for the time he did have some workable designs that were made.

from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_scientist_and_inventor

Among those inventions that are credited with passing into general practical use are the strut bridge, the automated bobbin winder, the machine for testing the tensile strength of wire and the lens-grinding machine pictured at right.

Some say he was responsible for the wheel lock musket/pistol.

And as some others have pointed out some of his ideas that weren't (at least as far as we know) built were probably possible using materials of the day.

Am I the only one with a few 'paper projects' to my name?

KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...

 

[zdas04]

He also considered himself a student his whole life, so I guess we'd kick him out of here.

David

 

[JAE]

KENAT,
Thanks for the full name usage...I feel so....so....respected

 

[pierdesign]

necessity = invention

his rotisserie, convection driven small turbine, to grill his meat was surely a fine piece of engineering.

 

[thruthefence]

If leonardo was an engineer, does that make Jules Verne one, as well?

 

[0707]

I think that Jules Verne was a good writer fictionist.

Da Vince was more than that

luis marques

 

[0707]

Tintin and his dog, outfitted in astronaut's uniforms, visited the Moon in 1954. This may give you an idea of the inventive genius of Herge's mind.

Luis marques