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 ...

Pedestrians and bicyclists in Ås, Norway, use the Da Vinci Bridge to cross the city’s E-18 highway, a laminated-wood structure based on an early 16th-century sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. Had ...

Perhaps the most famous painter, inventor and sculptor ever, Leonardo da Vinci's name resonates in the annals of history. While he may be best known for works such as the "Mona Lisa" and "Salvator ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a true Renaissance man whose works still awe people even today. One of his lesser-known works, a bridge design he submitted to the Ottoman Empire, would have been the longest ...

Leonardo da Vinci had his eye on the future. Among his designs: the ideal city, a self-propelled car and a parachute. A Swiss amateur parachutist last weekend became the first person to successfully ...

A kind of helicopter design first envisioned by the Renaissance-era Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci could help develop quieter and stealthier modern drones, according to a new study. Drones produce ...

Watching sparks fly and 600 pounds of melting iron glow from a historical furnace set in the parking lot of Ryan Field, Mike Pitorak was excited, fulfilling his year-long plan to take DSGN 395-64: ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the early 1500s, Leonardo da Vinci designed a hypothetical bridge for the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. It was rejected. Over 500 years later, an ...

Leonardo da Vinci is best known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but what you might not know is that in the 1480s—hundreds of years before the first flight—the polymath sketched a ...

In 1502, Leonardo da Vinci submitted a proposal for an inventive parabolic-arch bridge that would connect Istanbul with its sister city of Galata. Had it been erected, it would have become the longest ...

ODESSA - University of Texas at Permian Basin officials are considering building a pedestrian bridge designed nearly 500 years ago by Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci. The bridge would ...

Watching sparks fly and 600 pounds of melting iron glow from a historical furnace set in the parking lot of Ryan Field, Mike Pitorak was excited, fulfilling his year-long plan to take DSGN 395-64: ...