The Da Vinci Machines

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Anyone seen this exhibit?
I'm thinking of going to see it Today.

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Yes. If you're interested in renaissance machines and Da Vinci, you probably should see it. The more understanding you have of modern materials and engineering the more "interesting" I think it is. He had a lot of ideas, but really limited materials from which to choose from, so lots of his machines really never had a chance of ever working as designed, but the ideas -are- there for a lot of interesting things.

Other designs, well, he was clearly a genius of his time, but some of the surviving designs are just flat out impossible (like an Escher staircase). Maybe that was intentional to hide real designs behind a cloak of crap ones . . . who knows?

Go. Look at the machines and look at the drawings. Mostly of all . . . think about how heavy wood is.

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Yes.

Go. Look at the machines and look at the drawings. Mostly of all . . . think about how heavy wood is.

I know about a lot of his designs and the impracticality of them, I'm just hoping it not some wankers way of making a few $$$ by putting up some prints and calling it an exhibit. but it's only $20, and the weather here is crappy for skydiving so i will go and take some pics, then play Leo in my shed and build shit that dont work

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if you want to see a truly amazing machine go to the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. They have a working Babbage Difference Engine on display. It is a Victorian Era mechanical digital computer. It's really big, very complex and was built recently to Babbage's exact drawings. It works, can be programmed and can print answers. Not a single bit of electronics in it, just gears, cams, etc.... and a big hand crank. I'd like to see it driven by a steam engine. Babbage was not as multi talented as da Vinci, but his intellect was no less amazing. This guy had digital computing figured out before electronics even existed.

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if you want to see a truly amazing machine go to the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. They have a working Babbage Difference Engine on display. It is a Victorian Era mechanical digital computer. It's really big, very complex and was built recently to Babbage's exact drawings. It works, can be programmed and can print answers. Not a single bit of electronics in it, just gears, cams, etc.... and a big hand crank. I'd like to see it driven by a steam engine. Babbage was not as multi talented as da Vinci, but his intellect was no less amazing. This guy had digital computing figured out before electronics even existed.

My mate and I were discussing Babbage to day whilst walking through the exhibit.
I posed the question, how many people have been as ingenious as Da Vinci since his time in the 15oos.
We came up with, Babbage, Eddison, Franklin and couple of other luminaries,. So i WILL check out the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley when i am there in January.


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If you want to see a genius inventor take a look at the history of Philo Farnsworth. He invented electrically scanned video (TV as we know it) and actually described HDTV in great detail eighty years before we had the high bandwidth electronics to do it. He was no Da Vinci, few were, but he had incredible inventive intellect and remains obscure and under appreciated. Edwin Armstrong is another. He made basic radio circuit inventions in the 1920s (and even earlier) that have not been improved upon even today.

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DaVincis brilliance lies in his diversity of ingenuity.
He was not merely a specialist in a field, and to top it all off he could paint like few others and sculpt amazingly.

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