The Genius Of Leonardo Davinci

Engineers design, build and maintain just about everything in society. From homes, bridges and hospitals they do it all. However, for someone to call themselves an engineer it is not such a simple task. To be an engineer it takes years of dedication and hard work, but it also involves a large amount of natural artistic talent and the ability to visualize complex inventions in the mind. However, with the computer software’s in todays age so advanced, many engineers forget about the very important historical roots in which the profession stemmed from and all the amazing engineering pioneers that hand crafted all their ideas that seemed the impossible into a reality. Without the use of any software, all this was possible because the pioneers of engineering were so brilliant and creative, although there are many amazing historical engineers. One man in particular left a very large impact on society forever, and his name was Leonardo DaVinci.

Leonardo DaVinci was born in a small town called Florence, Italy. He grew up with a love and passion for how things worked and had so many ideas of what could be invented, and he also always had an interest in how it could be created and function in the real world. Davinci was such an interesting and fascinating man because most the amazing engineers and artists of all time, have had a background of attending the most well known and prestigious institutions. However, Davinci never attended any type of school, he was a self-made man with a hunger and desire for knowledge. He is most well known for his beautiful painting called the Mona Lisa, being the grandfather to aviation and the creator for vehicles of warfare. The piece of artwork known as the Mona Lisa was painted by Davinci, the painting was completed in the year of 1503.

Leonardo was a very mysterious man, behind every line and edge drawn there was some sort of story or message he was trying to send to the audience. For example, if one were to look closely at the piece of artwork, a sort of mourning garment that represents the subject in the art work was mourning the death of someone close or a loved one can be seen. The mourning head cover and the Mona Lisa itself has been a mystery for centuries and although different historians and people have their own theories behind what made Davinci create such a piece it is not for sure known. Due to the pure beauty of the artwork, it was stolen from the “Louvre Museum in 1911” and was not found until two years later, the massive scare was that the masterpiece would have been ruined by the thieves, but thankfully it was found and returned safely two years later to the same Museum, but is now protected by thick bullet proof glass and a thick barricade. The amount of questions and potential theories to such a beautiful project, is what has made the Mona Lisa the most amazing piece of artwork ever created.

Davinci was a man born with a mind that naturally revolved around the art of engineering, he was fascinated with any that involved mechanics, he would visualize something he was interested in inventing and jot it down with a detailed sketch. Explaining exactly what he was interested in inventing. Davinci was clearly a very talented artist, but a field in which Leonardo excelled at in even more than art was aviation. During the early 1500’s there was no known prior knowledge to the art of flight. However, Davinci had a large passion and interest into how objects flew. His first project stemmed from anticipating how birds flew and involved Davinci developing a contraption called “The Flying Machine”. The Flying Machine as stated earlier, represented Davinci’s fascination of how birds could soar through the air appearing completely weightless and free. The Flying Machine involved a human pedaling two cranks while at the same time flapping their arms which were equipped with wings the purpose behind the wings were to create a lift force so the person could fly. However, it was soon learned that the speed that could be pedalled was not nearly enough to create any type of flight. Davinci went back to his notpad.