The Museum of Unworkable Devices

crankbndr Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:05 pm

I came across this site while I was pondering perpetual motion

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm#top

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SuperDave Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:08 am

Crank:

It might interest you to know that Leonardo DaVinci disproved the idea of perpetual motion by in the fifteneeth century though many have tried to prove him wrong.

SD

dckrsn Wed Apr 16, 2014 3:54 pm

I instantly recognised the illustration in your post Doug.
M.C.Escher, here's the original.
Bob

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crankbndr Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:43 am

He sure was an artist with a different point of view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcc56fRtrKU

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SuperDave Thu Apr 17, 2014 1:05 pm

Leonardo DaVinci was the brightest mind of the Renaissance one of the most innovative periods of human history. Contemporaries were Copernicus, Raphael and a much younger Michaelangelo a much younger rival whom he enjoyed baitig and insulting - Michelangelo.

Leonardo (1452-1519)was fascianted with flight and it lead to many inventions in that field but also included mechanics, hydrailics, war and art.

We owe Michaelangelo much. I attended an exhibition of Leonardo 's work at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle in October of 2006.

I'll never forget it.

SD

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