@@80wolfmanrob I don't know. Listening to him talk about his vision for humanities future on other planets and all that goes with it paints a wicked picture of the future to me. ;~)
Da Vinci's design for an efficient city sounds almost exactly like Walt Disney's original design for EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow). Walt had the trucks moving goods in and waste out at the bottom level, the next level up was shops and entertainments, the next level up was living space, and the final, top, layer was parks, outdoor music amphitheaters, and recreational areas. I never heard that Disney took any inspiration from Da Vinci, but I wouldn't be surpirised.
We know most of them were destroyed, since he was deemed heretical his house was trashed afetr his death. Which meant most of his notes too went with that mess. However we still have a good chunk of them non the less.
Davinci didn’t even realize that helicopters will rotate if you don’t stop them. He was just drawing cool looking stuff he had no idea how to make work.
Da Vinci's parachute was tested by a skydiver about a decade ago. While it did hold together, it was impossible to control, unstable, and too heavy. The skydiver bailed after about a minute.
They didn't have carbon fiber or polymers back then, but you could stil build a pretty good glider with silk and spruce. I really liked his city design. Overhead walkways for pedestrians while leaving the streets for heavy traffic sounds like a great idea. There are places in downtown Toronto where they have done just that.
I remember an unintentionally hilarious movie supposed to be a medieval, or maybe prehistoric, adventure, where a princess was in danger from a cult with a huge _growling_ snake. She was hiding in a rural village where nobody could find her---even though she was the only girl or woman wearing a _fur Bikini!_ The hero's plan involved him flying in from above---in an obvious aluminum framed _hang glider,_ disguised by wrapping the frame inside bundles of straw! Ah, Leonardo, you should've _sued_ 'em! Stay safe.
@@oldenweery7510 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ator_2_%E2%80%93_L%27invincibile_Orion I saw the MST3K Version, 'The Cave Dwellers'. When Miles O' Keefe found out about the MST3K episode he thought it was hilarious, and the MST3K crew actually sent him a DVD of it!
Side project...the lesser-known bits of the Apollo program, like the launch pad itself. How was a 300+ ft tall rocket held in place prior to launch? What did it sit on and still give enough clearance for the F1 engines? How did it hold the vehicle down when the thrust was approaching 7 million pounds? Some good engineering in there.
I like the Voyager episode where holographic DaVinci ends up roaming around an alien trade port. Some actually really good insight into the psyche of the Maestro.
Here is an idea for a side project video. Catalina 22 sailboat. More of these small sailboats have been built than any other sailboat and a vase majored was built between 1969 and 1990. I think it was 13,000 were built during that time. You might know them as a Jaguar 22 in England. Since that what they were called there.
I can’t remember the episode name but Star Trek: Voyager had an episode where Captain Kathryn Janeway runs a holodeck programme about Leonardo Da Vinci and it highlights one of his flying machines. Even in the fictional 24th century, he inspired.
The Mythbuster guys, Adam and Jamie, actually did several builds of his inventions. If the show didn't focus so much on the interpersonal conflict and more on the design it would have been a keeper.
When I was a lad, there was a single-page feature in Mechanix Illustrated, called “Inventions Wanted”. . . That’s my take on Leonardo Da Vinci. . . Long on ideas, short on execution. A lot of his “inventions”, when executed, would have looked like those early 20th Century films of attempts at flight that we love to laugh at. . . Three’s a large gulf between “concept” and “product”. Just ask Elon Musk. . .
And nonetheless he designed these machines and utilities hundreds of years before they were actually feasible. He was a visionary and scholar, not a capitalistic product designer. That's the point of the Video, it shows how incredibly far ahead of his time DaVinci was. There is no comparison between him and Musk.
Ever heard the saying; "Never meet your heros"? But I think that I agree, it would be quite interesting to show him how the world has progressed from his days.
@@bodan1196 Heard about that saying. I don't know if I agree with it tho, everyone was/is human, and people that expect something else are just bonkers..
@@CezarBianu The word 'hero' implies a person set apart from a norm, thus it would be odd to expect "just a human". ;-) But I don't particularly disagree. :-) There is another saying: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions". I tend to amend to this with: "Yes, but that same road, also leads away from Hell". But to tie to your point, could not 'unrelatistic expectations' be considered stones also used to pave said road? Having unrealistic expectations, (the expectation that there is a God for example), tends to cause distress and frustration. Frustration that too often find a release in the mistreatment of others, with projected contempt and hateful degregation. Or am I over-analysing something that, basically, is cowardness? A 'shirking of responsibility', claiming that; "What I do, is just part of God's plan". (A claim I do find to be, somewhat cowardly.)
I'm not an engineer or anything, but it seems to me that more than the weight, the aerial screw's biggest weak point would be the base spinning as fast as the rotor. This is why modern helicopters have a tail rotor or counter-rotating rotors, to negate the effects of Newton's third law.
Da Vinci’s mind was fascinating. Where did all that come from? He wasn’t satisfied to ever rest on his laurels-WTF is a laurel, is it comfortable to rest on, never mind, not important. I wonder if his mind was constantly active? If he was ever able to just shut it down? I have two grandsons-from two different daughters-whose minds are always going. They are both bad sleepers. I just find myself questioning why. Do their brains just never stop firing?
@Richard Hopkins Da Vinci is of Vinci meaning place of birth. His real name is Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci meaning Leonardo son of Ser Piero from Vinci. It would be like calling you your place of birth. Example: Hey of New York did this great thing.
@05:55 _"This Innovation ( ball bearings ) has been incorporated into hundreds of machines"_ - You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers.
There were some really cool actual-size models built for the film "Hudson Hawk". If you like Da Vinci, comic book movies, song and dance numbers built into a film, movies featuring Bruce Willis in his comedic mode, or Andy MacDowel (from Groundhogs Day, Multiplicity); I highly recommend it.
Leonardo of course had many other innovations. Another was a car that had a wind up mechanism. I saw a life size model of it at a Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition. I've been to a few.
If you ever get a chance for to Amboise in France. The house where he died is now a museum to his inventions. Chateau du Clos Luce. It is fantastic the town is beautiful as well.
what if it wasnt a tank, but a semi-auto turret, fire one cannon and while its reloading spin 90degress and fire another. the timing of sequencial shots would be atleast halved.
Suggestion for side project/megaproject/geographics: Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monument. If you wanted to include other large mountain sculptures you could include Stone Mountain Monument and address the controversy
Anyone else not particularly impressed by DaVinci? A lot of people could think up and draw top level fantastical pontifications of things many in that era were thinking of (I.e., parachutes, gliders like the birds, mobile impenetrable armed boxes, like a siege tower or covered battering ram but with guns). His tank wheels in the wrong direction is a prime example of being overrated. He seriously screwed they up? And it being intentional to make the device useless is BS. Anyone would see it was wrong on inspection, or when they built it and just simply reverse it around. If we give him credit like this, then do we credit the writers of Star Trek of inventing faster than light travel? Or me as a 5 year old drawing flying cars piloted by a robotic system?
Sorta shows the research Ubisoft did to try and recreate these projects for the AC games (2 and Brotherhood) the flying winged machine, the tank and the parachute for example
I want to create an app that provides links to all of Simon Whistler's podcasts. The challenge is getting it to continuously update so when Simon launches yet another site(s) it will find it (them) and add it (them) to the long list of sites with the links intact. I particularly liked his Stupid Twits Through History site.
Till recent years Washington DC had a similar rule about heights of buildings relative to the width of the street. That is why you don't see any skyscrapers in the city. You have to go across the Potomac river to Virginia for the areas woth taller buildings.
An idea for a video. I recommend the Freedom Train here in the US. In 1937 it ran all over the country. But they refused to stop at any stop that insisted on segregated viewing of the train. A loud message calling for the end to segregation all over the country.
do you suppose that if da Vinci got his hands on bamboo he would be able to build some of these contraptions? I assume Bamboo is light enough and tough enough to withstand the weight of human being, i know its maluable enough (with heat) to basically make any shape
"these cannon are too difficult to move... what we really need is a giant 80 foot crossbow." the person is there for scale lmao... ofc it would have needed a siege crew.
People have recreated the tank and tried it out. The problem is it doesn't work well on uneven ground. Dig a ditch in front of it and it can't move over it.
He and Machiavelli also created plans to reroute the Arno River to take it away from the city of Pisa and remove their connection to the sea. It would've worked had the lead engineer over the execution of the project not altered their plans.
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Yeah, I was always puzzled over the "Tortoises" wheels pointing in all directions. I would've thought so intelligent a man wouldn't make a mistake like that, so maybe you're right. I seem to recall that he designed a barrel for a cannon so large that it wouldn't cool properly to temper it. I think they dumped it in a river while it was still hot, but I don't know if it was ever usable. Stay safe, everyone.
