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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