Most modern people know Leonardo da Vinci as brilliant artist – author of “Mona Lisa” and “Last Supper”. However, this great man of the Renaissance was more than just artist – he was an inspired inventor. After his death in 1519 preserved a huge number of systematized records. In total, more than 6,000 are available for study. handwritten pages. And although there is no real evidence that inventions were built during his lifetime, many of them really far ahead of their time. Aircraft Da vinci
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Da Vinci records several aircraft options. He paid particular attention to one. Hundreds of pages inventor codes-books are devoted to thorough, scrupulous a description of the anatomy of birds and bats. Wings for your flying Leonardo tried to create an apparatus like a bird.
According to the drawings, the machine was driven by a pair of huge the wings that were supposed to move, twisting the arms, the pilot, located in a special frame face down. Since the drawings are not suggest any engine, then the probability of rising in the air on the device is extremely small.
The first flight was made 400 years later by the Wright brothers on their by plane. Armored chariot 
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Along with the peaceful inventions of da Vinci – author and scary guns of war. The inventor offered the duke of Milan a prototype modern armored car. The proposed armored car represented a box lined with iron armor. Inside deadly car people could shoot through the cracks between the sheets, while remaining unattainable to the enemy. In motion with using armored arm levers 8 people were inside. 400 years later, armored tanks became mandatory “participants” in any war. Diving suit 
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Forced to constantly fight on the water, the Venetians received from inventor’s suit allowing warriors to move under water and damage the bottoms of enemy ships. The costume is made of leather, in a helmet built-in lenses, shoes weighted with special plates. In costume there were many tool pockets. Breathing air It was supposed to be stored in a bell or a leather bladder on a jacket. Underwater costumes became widespread only in the middle of the twentieth century. after the research of Jacques Yves Cousteau and the invention of scuba gear. Da Vinci machine gun
A photo from open sources the Creator of the Last Supper also left drawings of weapons resembling a modern machine gun. Da Vinci machine gun represents 33 gun barrels mounted on rotating frame in three racks. When one row shot, the second cooled, the third was charging.
Rapid firearms appeared in the army only during American Civil War since 1862 in the form of a Gatling gun. Humanoid robot
A photo from open sources In many inventions, da Vichi was ahead of his time, but the design of his robot was especially futuristic. Leonardo created a blueprint of a mechanical knight robot capable of swinging hands, move your head and open and close your mouth. Control carried out by gear mechanism and cable system with handles. After 450 years, the sketches of Leonardo da Vinci formed the basis NASA developments. In 2002, Martin Lockheed built fully operational model of the robot according to the drawings of da Vinci.
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