Flapping MachineFlapping Machine

by Leonardo da Vinci

Euridice Giambanis

Lisette Groot

Armando Bajares

ESST- November 1st 2002

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Topics of Discussion

11stst Approach: Approach: Leonardo’ s life in the Renaissance

22ndnd Approach: Approach: Aviation History

Conclusion Conclusion

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Flapping Machine

Leonardo starts drawings at 1496.

Contains studies for mechanical flight.

Flier’s feet drive alternatively two ropes wound over the rims of two pulleys, to which the wing tips are tied.

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1st Approach: Flapping machine in the framework of

Leonardo’s life

Leonardo lived in the Renaissance period

Some called him “genius”(architect, sculptor, painter, scientist, e.t.c.)

Talented personality Highly-estimated

person

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1st Approach: Flapping machine in the framework of

Leonardo’s life

There is no boundary between Science and Art

An effort to understand how the nature works

Flapping machine was a method to expand his knowledge

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2nd Approach: Flapping Machine in Aviation history

From Icarus & Daedalus to Wright Brothers’ first airplane

How birds fly, construction of the wing

Ornithopterus with flapping wings moved by human power

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2nd Approach: Flapping Machine in Aviation history

Flapping machine as a piece of engineering

Nowadays it is a technological invention for the aviation history

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History of aviation

Wrightbrothers

Renaissanceperiod

STSview

Approaches to technological inventions

Mona Lisa

Anatomystudies

FlappingMachine

Warmachines

Leonardo’slife

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Conclusion

Every scientific or historical event can be interpreted in different ways as it is always depended on the perspective with which it is analyzed.

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Conclusion

From our point of view the FM represents:

an invention in a particular historical context, with different meanings for different fields in the history of Scientific and Technological developments.