526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 24, 2004 @03:49PM from the bright-fella dept.

SimianOverlord writes "The Guardian (and several other news outlets) report on the attempt by Professor Paulo Galluci and his team to build a working model of Leonard Da Vinci's clockwork powered car, designed in 1478. Previous attempts have been made to create the vehicle, but they failed to work properly. This is thought to be due to a misunderstanding of the original design, which is corrected in the new model. Apart from the 1/3 scale replica, the team have also made a full size model but have not dared to test it. Professor Galluzzi explained "It is a very powerful machine. It could run into something and do serious damage.""

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OT: Helicopter by E_elven · 2004-04-24 16:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

Name: Chris
Date: 2002-01-23
Comments: Its amazing how Leonardo had these ideas hundreds of years before they were invented. ...
Good thing we didn't have to rely on Chris on that one.

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The fact that the won't test it... by Banner · 2004-04-25 05:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

Shows that they don't believe it will work. So why all the hoopla about this?