Curiosità
Besides being a great artist and architect, Leonardo Da Vinci designed hundreds of machines, from big equipments to small but innovative mechanisms.
Nontheless, according to many historians, the tuscan genius never relised many of the inventions he drew and described in his famous codices.
A man of genius and universal talent who fully embodied the spirit of his era, bringing it to the greatest forms of expression in the most disparate fields of art and knowledge by designing objects that today thanks to Superstuff you can have them in your home! Glider: Leonardo had a great dream: flight. The glider that the Tuscan inventor imagined and designed on the Atlantic Codex is its closest project to achieving this goal. Although the materials that are too heavy and fragile have made every effort useless, this flying machine never ceases to arouse admiration for engineering and design. Catapult: Taken from the Atlantic Codex, Leonardo’s catapult is a micidial war machine, able to exploit the elasticity of wood to throw projectiles at incredible distances. Hammer: The hammer cam, taken from the Madrid Code, is a very useful device on construction sites because it is capable of transforming the rotary motion into an alternating motion, useful for example for beating iron or crushing stone.
