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The Models

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Leonardo da Vinci ,  Architect and engineer

 

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     Leonard de Vinci au  Clos Luce en Francais  

 Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter, but an  engineer, inventor and  philosopher

Leonardo developed a  new attitude when considering machines. He tried to understand how each separate machine part worked, so he could modify them and combine them in different ways . Leonardo  wrote  detailed explanations of how machines worked and how the elements of machines could be combined. Leonardo da Vinci not only  improved existing machines , but also  created inventions no one had ever seen before.

His  talents as a illustrator and painter allowed him to draw his mechanical ideas with exceptional clarity. Five hundred years after they were put on paper, most of his sketches can easily be used as blueprints for perfectly working models of  parachute, tank , camera , paddle boat , flying machines,  helicopter ,bridges , pumps , guns...

 

 

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In Clos Luce there  is  a collection of models  made by I B M  based on the  designs of Da Vinci

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The tank

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The  paddle boat

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The swing bridge

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War machines , guns ,  cars , pumps, water machines ...

 

"I can build very light bridges, solid, robust, easily transportable, to pursue and sometimes flee from the enemy [...] I also have the means to make bombardments, very  easy to transport, which throw stones almost like a storm, terrorizing the enemy with their smoke [...] In peace time,  I am also able to give complete satisfaction to anyone, whether in architecture, the building of public and private buildings, or in conveying water from one place to another ".

Leonardo da Vinci


Some  full-sized  models of the "Fabulous Machines " are exposed in the  Clos Luce  Park

Fabulous Machines

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