Leonardo’s Inventions

Question 1

Tank

Answer 1

The tank was
first used durina World War
One. However, Leonardo designed a tank more than 500 years earlier, equipped with guns and driven by men on the inside. However
There were major flaws in his
design

Question 2

Machine guns

Answer 2

Leonardo’s machine gun was nothing like the modern machine guns. Rather than firing bullets rapidly from the belt, it was meant to fire bullets from individual guns that were connected in three rows, with each containing 11 guns. Leonardo’s weapon was never built but it is notable for introducing
the concept of a modern machine gun.

Question 3

Parachute

Answer 3

The invention of the parachute IS
traditionally credited to Leonardo although he wasn’t the first to come up with the idea. There is evidence of parachute-like devices being used in China as early as the 11th century. However, Leonardo’s parachute was
much more sophisticated and in 2000, the British skydiver Adrien Nicholas proved that it works by jumping with a parachute built according to Leonardo’s sketches,

Question 4

Diving suite

Answer 4

Leonardo wasn’t the first to come up with the idea of a suit that allows its wearer to breathe underwater. But again, his design is strikingly similar to the early prototypes of the modern diving suit: it consisted of a (leather) jacket, pants and helmet with
inbuilt glass goggles, and a breathing tube that supplied the air from the surface.

Question 5

The aerial screw

Answer 5

This design was very similar to the modern helicopter. And according to Leonardo, It could fly. But according to most experts, IT would not work effectivelv because the muscle power alone is not enough to
the machine airborne