Leonardo Da Vinci Accomplishments

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Leonardo da Vinci military ideas
World history honors
Period: 5
Ty Carver

Leonardo da Vinci military ideas

Leonardo da Vinci had many amazing ideas. Some of which are his military ideas. He filled many notebooks with many drawings of weapons and military machines. They included a giant crossbow, a tank, and a submarine, and many more. After this he went crazy and found it impossible to stop thinking about machines it became an addiction. From what is known none of his inventions were tested by him. And those who did try his inventions he booby trapped his blueprints he would have parts in the wrong spots so others could not steal his inventions.

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The most useful and needed thing he had was water. Nobody had found a way to use electricity yet, so water and manpower where the only source for power. Leonardo studied every form of water, liquid, gas, and solid. He had all sorts of wonderful ideas of what to do with it. He thought of plans for a device to measure humidity in the air, a steam powered cannon that operated off of only steam, many water wheels, and lots of useful industrial machines powered by flowing water. Once he started on the subject of water, he couldn't really stop he was always inventing thing with the use of water things like floating shoes to walk on water, breathing devices like a diving hood and webbed gloves to explore underwater, weapons to attack and sink ships from underwater, and a double-hulled ship for clearing harbors and channels. This ship h thought it to be “unsinkable”

Like any rational human, Leonardo founded disgust in a war he found it as "beastly madness” but since Renaissance Italy was constantly at war he couldn't avoid it. He designed many weapons, including missiles, multi-barreled machine guns, grenades, mortars, and even a modern style tank. However with his plans for an underwater breathing device, he refused to show them to anyone, saying that men would likely use it for