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April 26, 2004

Self-propelling cart

Designs from Leonardo's Atlanticus Codex have been transformed into a working model now the steering mechanism is no longer confused for the propulsion system.

For more than a century, modern Leonardo scholars have grappled with page 812R of the Atlanticus Codex. Other pages contained astounding inventions, from a bicycle to a submarine. A variety of models were built, based on da Vinci's wooden cart, but no one was ever able to make them work, because of an error of interpretation.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 26, 2004 09:38 AM

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