In the past there have been many great engineers such as Thomas Edison, James Watt, and Benjamin Franklin, however there is one that I find particularly interesting, Leonardo Da Vinci. He was a great engineer and he is one of the leading causes we have several of the modern technologies that we have today.
Da Vinci did not just learn these thing over night however he learned, like kids today he was taught. Da Vinci received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and math, however he did what he could outside of school. Da Vinci began a lengthy apprenticeship with the noted artist Andrea Del Verrocchio in Florence. He learned a wide breadth of technical skills including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting and sculpting.
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Flying Machine, Of Leonardo da Vinci’s many areas of study, perhaps this Renaissance man’s favorite was the area of aviation. It was this interest that inspired his most famous invention – the flying machine. Helicopter (Aerial Screw), though the first actual helicopter wasn’t built until the 1940s, it is believed that Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches from the late fifteenth century detailed a predecessor to the modern-day flying machine. Parachute, though credit for the invention of the first practical parachute usually goes to Sebastien Lemerand in 1783, Leonardo da Vinci actually conceived the parachute idea a few hundred years earlier. 33-Barreled Organ, 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
Da Vinci did not just learn these thing over night however he learned, like kids today he was taught. Da Vinci received no formal education beyond basic reading, writing and math, however he did what he could outside of school. Da Vinci began a lengthy apprenticeship with the noted artist Andrea Del Verrocchio in Florence. He learned a wide breadth of technical skills including metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, drawing, painting and sculpting.
Da Vinci’s talents were recognizable from the start of his childhood as well as his …show more content…
Flying Machine, Of Leonardo da Vinci’s many areas of study, perhaps this Renaissance man’s favorite was the area of aviation. It was this interest that inspired his most famous invention – the flying machine. Helicopter (Aerial Screw), though the first actual helicopter wasn’t built until the 1940s, it is believed that Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches from the late fifteenth century detailed a predecessor to the modern-day flying machine. Parachute, though credit for the invention of the first practical parachute usually goes to Sebastien Lemerand in 1783, Leonardo da Vinci actually conceived the parachute idea a few hundred years earlier. 33-Barreled Organ, 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