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 ...

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 ...

The bubonic plague spread, in part, because of poor urban planning. Leonardo da Vinci came up with a series of alternative designs that hold valuable lessons for today’s cities, as they face ...

Leonardo da Vinci was not just a painter of masterpieces like the Mona Lisa, he was a visionary whose ideas stretched ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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: ...

For much of Sunday afternoon, Christian Corley and his son Dakota launched their handmade paper rotocopters into a Union Station wind tunnel. Some of the miniature helicopters flew a little, others ...

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 ...

Copper Mill Elementary robotics students experienced the genius of Leonardo da Vinci on April 8 when they took a field trip with robotics teachers Laura Grubb, Regena Landry and Carrie Trotti, as well ...