Did Leonardo daVinci invent the Helicopter?
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No .. and many of his 'inventions' are childish doodles that can not be made to work' in real life even using tha most modern materials (such as Carbon fibre)
I seen the mona lisa and I wasn't that impressed, dont know what all the fuss is about, its only small too
He was a master draughtsman, engineer, master painter, sculptor, thinker ,inventor and visionary.a league of his own.have a look at some of his sketches both for art and anatomical
Yeah, Renaissance, eh? Load of old tosh.
they are classed as great thinking minds old masters and such,not to say there aren't loads of people out-there who don't get recognition for their work.as soon as i read your cork screw line i thought of Archimedes screw.that took water up the hill to feed the Babylon gardens.
I don't think he actually invented it. He did lay the founding basis of what one may look like if it were to be built and how it would work, but from looking at his sketches I don'tthink his would of flown too well.
I'm not sure but I know he was left handed.
No he didnt. But I believe he had the first concept
He didn't invent the helicopter, he just drew a sketch that was revolutionary because no one in recorded history had ever thought of using counter-rotating blades to achieve flight, nor had they thought it possible.
his helicopter sketch wasn't the most impressive, but he did design (what wouldve been had he built it) the first successful flying machine. his sketches where correct (cuz it was later built and flew), but he never actually built it. i have to agree, though, the mona lisa isn't that spectacular. but he was a genius in other fields, particularly in engineering. in (i think either the may or june issue) of popular science, there's an article on a bike company thats using one of his designs to build one of the most sophisticated gear changes for bicycles.
Compared to modern pieces I could understand your point but he did this stuff centuries ago when his works would have been unheard of. For example. You wouldn't be impressed with a car nowadays but in that time they'd have though it a gift from god.
I think you can get his notes on Gutenberg.
Obviously it didn't work, but you must admit that he had a great imagination to be the first to conceive of all of these things (tanks, submarines, flying machines) that did not exist at the time.
I believe that the invention of the modern helicopter is credited to Igor Sikorsky a Russian.
DaVinci had been credited with
inventing everything from God
through Michealangelo, to drawing.
But he didn't invent helicopters,
since they're not even inventions.
They're marines looking for a
job that pays more than museum guards.
Da Vinci sketched some pretty fanciful stuff. The "helecopter" he drew is generaly considered capable of flight, given sufficient power. Much more power than could be produced by human muscles. It took a Russian immigrant named Igor Sikorsky to figure out how to control the thing. It first flew near White Plains NY in 1936. A modern company called United Technologies had its roots in Sikorsky's company
No. He made some cool and suggestive drawings but never made a working model of anything.
He was either a Way Ahead of His Time Genius or just a Big Dork.
Yes he did invent the helicopter but was unable to fly it until shell invented petrol some two years later. I think the Mona Lisa is a fabulous work of art. However this was actually painted by Picasso or was it Constable , anyway.
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