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ACADEMY
18153 DA VINCI ARCH BRIDGE
A SNAP TOGETHER model of DaVinci's Bridge Easy to build Complete step-by-step InstructionsNo glue, no paint, no tools neededBeautifully detailedLearn, enjoy the operation, collect the series
Leonardo
da Vinci was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist,
botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype
of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled
only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of
the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely
talented person ever to have lived.
Leonardo was revered for his
technological ingenuity. He conceptualized, among many others, a
helicopter, a tank, a paddleboat, a self-propelling cart, concentrated
solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary
theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were
constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his
smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for
testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of
manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state
of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and
hydrodynamics.
Da Vinci designed this bridge to use its own
weight to support itself without the use of fasteners or other forms of
attachment. In fact more weight makes the bridge stronger. Designed
for military applications and fast assembly many similar principles are
still in use in bridge building today.
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