Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius

A few weeks ago we toured the new exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science with our friends the Adam's.

The exhibit focused on the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
It's quite amazing that he either invented or helped to improve various machines, inventions and designs over 500 years ago.



FLYING MACHINE
It fascinates me to imagine people trying to test these inventions of Leonardo's. I'm sure there were many injuries and even deaths associated with the testing of various machines, objects etc....



ROBOT (one of his least-known designs) The notes attached to this display said that this "Robot" was designed to open & close its jaw, sit up, wave its arms and move its head and was probably developed after Leonardo's extensive research of the human anatomy.
All I can say is VERY COOL!!!

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