did leonardo da vinci invent the helicopter?/?

Answer 1

of course not. Leonardo da Vinci put on the paper some of his ideas but you cant consider this cockscrew as an helicopter: he did not managed the couple effect which happen when the cockscrew is functioning. (because of that real helicopter have a rotor to nullifies this effect). He didn't invent a car but a theatrical device to move automatically the decor !!

Answer 2

Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions Helicopter

Answer 3

Leonardo Helicopter

Answer 4

Actually Leonardo did not invent the helicopter, he simply examined the principle behind the helix.


Leonardo rarely deviated from the principle of beating wings in his inventions. One exception is the design on Manuscript B Fol 83v for an “aerial screw”, which has led to false claim that he invented the helicopter. Leonardo’s invention is based on a helical screw 10 meters in diameter and not rotary blades. But the drawing does express the scientific principle that when the air is compressed it has density, which was to find its application much later in the propeller or helicopter.

Leonardo’s machine was supposed to lift off when rotated, but one might well ask how the force required to achieve sufficient rotating speed would be obtained. It is likely that his device was not for manner flight but was intended for a public spectacle. Nonetheless, it’s nice to think that Leonardo’s drawing may have inspired Igor Sikorsky’s invention of the first stable, single rotor controllable helicopter, having been reputedly shown Leonardo’s drawing by his mother.

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did leonardo da vinci invent the helicopter?/?

Answer 6

Leonardo created some models and many drawings, of his many ideas, from the bicycle to the helicopter, to the first disk drive like device, and other technical mechanisims - all inspired by nature.

However, he rarely move beyond conception to the point of invention - not to take anything away from him.

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P.S. Those in the know refer to the master as Leonardo and not da Vinci, because da Vinci just means 'of Vinci'

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Answer 7

During the latter part of the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci made drawings of a helicopter that used a spiral airscrew to obtain lift.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

He did have a rudimentary design for a helicopter-like contraption, as well as many other inventions and ideas. He was truly remarkable. It is believed he was the first to discover perspective in his art work when he was about 15 years old.

Answer 10

leonardo "invented" many things if you do not classify invent as to have a working device. I have spent many hours before computers held the patent information, going over huge volumes of " inventions" - real, patented inventions, NONE of which had anything but a drawing and a description, so in terms of " invent " considering the thousands of pages of "patented " real, modern ( 1800's to now ) inventions, you could state that he did, since he had drawings of devices that used principles that would work " IFF " the technology existed to do build them. His "helicopter " was a corkscrew type of thing that if built using materials of the day, would have weighed hundreds and hundreds of pounds, and
produce enough lift to carry baseball... for a few seconds before the people turning the blades would be exhausted. BUT, the principle was real. To date it is the first known "modern" day suggestion of the principle.