Publication year: 2006
ISBN: 978-3-540-28497-0
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The book reinterprets Leonardo's legacy of notes, showing that apparently unconnected fragments from dispersed manuscripts actually comprise cohesive designs for functioning automata. Using the rough sketches scattered throughout almost all of Leonardo's notebooks, the author has reconstructed Leonardo's programmable cart, which was the platform for other automata: a Robot Lion, a Robot Knight, and a hydraulically powered automaton for striking a bell.
Subject: Engineering, First Self-Propelled Vehicle of the World, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo's Lost Robots, Robotics, The Real Da Vinci Code, mechanical engineering, robot