Post on 26-Dec-2015
As Built Project
Benjamin Bentley
Da Vinci
Who Is Da Vinci
April 15th 1452-May 2nd 1519
Italian renaissance
◦ Painter
◦ Sculptor
◦ Architect
◦ Musician
Da Vinci
◦ Mathematician
◦ Engineer
◦ Inventor
◦ Anatomist
◦ Geologist
◦ Cartographer
◦ Botanist
◦ Writer
Da Vinci
Born out of wedlock
Piero da Vinci (a notary)
Caterina ( a peasant woman)
Trained by Verrocchio (renowned Florentine painter)
Earlier life spent working for Ludovico il Moro
In Milan
Went on to work in ◦ Rome
◦ Bologna
◦ Venice
Da Vinci
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
Da Vinci
Kept notebooks
◦ Contained drawings
◦ Scientific diagrams
◦ Inventions (practical impractical)
◦ Musical instruments
Da Vinci
◦ Hydraulic pumps
◦ Reversible crank mechanisms
◦ Reversible crank mechanisms
◦ Finned mortar shells
◦ Steam cannon
Da Vinci
His engineering works
◦ Helicopter
◦ Tank
◦ Solar power
◦ Calculator
◦ The double hull
◦ Moveable barricades
Da Vinci
◦ 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
Da Vinci
2001 smaller scale bridge constructed in Norway
Da Vinci
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
Da Vinci
◦ Optics
◦ hydrodynamics
Da Vinci
First major civil engineering project
Spans a motorway in Aas, Norway
Three sparate arches
Two leaning inwards on either side
The actual bridge
Smaller than Da Vinci’s original design (340)
Wood
Spans 100 meters
Architect Tarja Koskinen
Firm Selberg Arkitektkonor
The actual bridge
Time◦ Total time approximately 10hrs
Materials used◦ Acrylic paint
◦ Glue
◦ Tempered hard board
◦ 18ga wire
My Project
◦ Vinyl
◦ Wood dowel
◦ Speed square
◦ Jig Saw
◦ Clay
◦ Tape measure
My project
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