The bridge was never fabricated,
- May 31st, 2010
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The bridge was never fabricated, but Leonardo’s
vision was resurrected in 2001 when a smaller bridge based on his
design was erected in Norway.
Owing to his employment as a military engineer, his notebooks also
contain several designs for military machines: machine guns, an
armored tank powered by humans or horses, cluster bombs, etc. even though he later held war to be the worst of human activities. Other inventions include a submarine, a cog-wheeled device that has
been interpreted as the first mechanical calculator, and a car
powered by a spring mechanism. In his years in the Vatican, he
planned an industrial use of solar power, by employing concave
mirrors to heat water. While most of Leonardo’s inventions were
not built during his lifetime, models of many of them have been
constructed with the support of IBM and are on display at the
Leonardo Da Vinci Museum at the Ch?teau du Clos Luc? in Amboise.
His notebooks
Leonardo’s notebooks were on four main themes; architecture,
elements of mechanics, painting and human anatomy.
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