I've often heard it said that Leonardo da Vinci invented the helicopter. Pah! I've seen the rough sketch he did and it looks like an oversized corkscrew. And the Mona Lisa is a bog standard bit of artwork. Why is everyone always sucking up to Leonardo? Anyone agree?
2007-07-26 09:04:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
No .. and many of his 'inventions' are childish doodles that can not be made to work' in real life even using tha most modern materials (such as Carbon fibre)
2007-07-26 19:37:49 · answer #1 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-07-26 18:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he did invent the helicopter but was unable to fly it until shell invented petrol some two years later. I think the Mona Lisa is a fabulous work of art. However this was actually painted by Picasso or was it Constable , anyway.
2007-07-26 18:45:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
his helicopter sketch wasn't the most impressive, but he did design (what wouldve been had he built it) the first successful flying machine. his sketches where correct (cuz it was later built and flew), but he never actually built it. i have to agree, though, the mona lisa isn't that spectacular. but he was a genius in other fields, particularly in engineering. in (i think either the may or june issue) of popular science, there's an article on a bike company thats using one of his designs to build one of the most sophisticated gear changes for bicycles.
2007-07-26 16:16:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DaVinci had been credited with
inventing everything from God
through Michealangelo, to drawing.
But he didn't invent helicopters,
since they're not even inventions.
They're marines looking for a
job that pays more than museum guards.
2007-07-26 18:00:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that the invention of the modern helicopter is credited to Igor Sikorsky a Russian.
2007-07-26 17:26:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't invent the helicopter, he just drew a sketch that was revolutionary because no one in recorded history had ever thought of using counter-rotating blades to achieve flight, nor had they thought it possible.
2007-07-26 16:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. He made some cool and suggestive drawings but never made a working model of anything.
He was either a Way Ahead of His Time Genius or just a Big Dork.
2007-07-26 18:38:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he actually invented it. He did lay the founding basis of what one may look like if it were to be built and how it would work, but from looking at his sketches I don'tthink his would of flown too well.
2007-07-26 16:11:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I seen the mona lisa and I wasn't that impressed, dont know what all the fuss is about, its only small too
2007-07-26 16:08:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋