1. Benjamin Bentley

3.  Who Is Da Vinci  April 15 th 1452-May 2 nd 1519  Italian renaissance ◦ Painter ◦ Sculptor ◦ Architect ◦ Musician

4. ◦ Mathematician ◦ Engineer ◦ Inventor ◦ Anatomist ◦ Geologist ◦ Cartographer ◦ Botanist ◦ Writer

5.  Born out of wedlock  Piero da Vinci (a notary)  Caterina ( a peasant woman)  Trained by Verrocchio (renowned Florentine painter)

6.  Earlier life spent working for Ludovico il Moro  In Milan  Went on to work in ◦ Rome ◦ Bologna ◦ Venice

7.  Spent last years in France  In home awarded to him by Fancis I.  Work done as a painter ◦ Mona Lisa (most famous) ◦ The Last Supper (most redone religious painting) ◦ Vitruvian Man

11.  Kept notebooks ◦ Contained drawings ◦ Scientific diagrams ◦ Inventions (practical impractical) ◦ Musical instruments

12. ◦ Hydraulic pumps ◦ Reversible crank mechanisms ◦ Finned mortar shells ◦ Steam cannon

13.  His engineering works ◦ Helicopter ◦ Tank ◦ Solar power ◦ Calculator ◦ The double hull ◦ Moveable barricades

15. ◦ Diverting flow of the Arno River  Outlined theory of plate tectonics  720Ft bridge  Suppose to span an inlet at the mouth of the Bosporus  Construction declared impossible

16.  2001 smaller scale bridge constructed in Norway

18.  Few of his designs built or even feasible during his life time ◦ Automated bobbin winder ◦ Tensile strength testing machine  Made important discoveries in ◦ Anatomy ◦ Civil engineering

20. ◦ Optics ◦ hydrodynamics

21.  First major civil engineering project  Spans a motorway in Aas, Norway  Three sparate arches  Two leaning inwards on either side

22.  Smaller than Da Vinci’s original design (340)  Wood  Spans 100 meters  Architect Tarja Koskinen  Firm Selberg Arkitektkonor

25.  Time ◦ Total time approximately 10hrs  Materials used ◦ Acrylic paint ◦ Glue ◦ Tempered hard board ◦ 18ga wire

26. ◦ Vinyl ◦ Wood dowel ◦ Speed square ◦ Jig Saw ◦ Clay ◦ Tape measure

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