Artwork

La fusee (Rocket)

With Da Vinci’s pursuit of flight, he sketched an object that looked very similar to a spaceship and ended up resembling the carrier that Curiosity (the Mars land rover) used...

Le frein hydraulique (Westinghouse Air Brake)

The Westinghouse air brake was way after Da Vinci’s time, Da Vinci dying in 1519 and the invention being made in 1872. It transformed the railway systems history marking a...

La Linotype (Linotype)

The linotype was a machine created by Ottmar Mergenthaler, James O. Clephane and Charles T. Moore who wanted to efficiently publish legal briefs. The machine molts metal to create a...

L’electronique (Computer Circuit)

Computer circuits were way beyond Da Vinci’s time, but some computers have been labelled after Da Vinci as a reference to his pursuit of innovation. Computers were invented as a...

L’automobile (Automobile)

Leonardo Da Vinci created the designs for a self-propelled car in 1478. He never built the vehicle but in 2004 Paolo Galluzi built the car for the Museum of the...

La machine a coudre (Sewing Machine)

In 1755, Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal created the first sewing machine. He was a carpenter so it was likely made out of necessity rather than innovative genius. It was made for...