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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.