Leonardo Da Vinci's Accomplishments

Da Vinci and His Creations Of all the great masters during the Renaissance, the one that probably revolutionized the world the most was Leonardo da Vinci. He was an extraordinary artist dealing with sculpting, painting, and architecture. Da Vinci was also an outstanding scholar. He was an expert in mathematics, biology, anatomy, literature, and even more. The most interesting study that he undertook would have to be engineering. Leo’s creations were centuries ahead of his time. He made things from practical bridges all the way to flying machines. Da Vinci has a huge variety of inventions, and a lot of them were for the common people. As previously stated, he designed plans for bridges. One that he is quite easily recognized for is the one
It was a type of chariot that carried four scythes suspended on a revolving gear out in front of the horses. It rotated with a connection to the shaft on the wheels of the chariot (Bsmbach). He made many more small designs for warfare. They include a musket, cannon, multi barreled gun, water cooled weapons, etc. “The way Leonardo da Vinci saw it, the problem with canons of the time was that they took far too long to load. His solution was to build multi-barreled guns that could be loaded and fired simultaneously.” (InventHelp) He never stopped because he was constantly coming up with new ideas
The one that most people would probably recognize is the Aerial Screw helicopter. It was the predecessor to the modern-day helicopter. It had a large round wooden base with an axle extend straight up from the middle. A corkscrew type sail was attached to the axle. The sail made form wooden limbs and a cloth material. Two people could stand on this device and spin the axle to pull air under the sails and for it upward. Unfortunately for Leo, the design would never work. It would have been far too heavy, and the sail could not spin fast enough to gain that much air. The pilots would also not have anything to push off of, so it would be almost impossible to spin the axle. Da Vinci made a fantastic and lovely drawing, but there were just too many flaws associated with it for it to work. (Wulff) Leo made sketches for an early diving suit. “A suit was constructed for a BBC documentary using pigskin treated with fish oil to repel water. The head was covered by a helmet with two eyeglasses at the front. A breathing tube of bamboo with pigskin joints was attached to the back of the helmet and connected to a float of cork and wood.” (Bsmbach) When they went to test the suit, they discovered that the cork acted as an air compression chamber and worked nicely for being such an early model. This is just another example that shows how Leonardo da Vinci was years ahead of his