Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t just a painter — he was a machine-building genius centuries ahead of his time. His notebooks reveal ...

Ancient Greek thinker Archytas built one of the first flying machines long before Leonardo da Vinci sketched his own and ...

In the 1480s, Italian Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci came up with an ingenious design for an “aerial screw.” A rotor in the shape of a helix measuring about 13 feet in diameter, the ...

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