DA VINCI PADDLEBOAT
Brand: ACADEMY
Item # 18130

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath painter, sculptor,
architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer,
inventor, anatomist, geologist, botanist and writer. Leonardo has
often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a
man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers
of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest
painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented
person ever to have lived.

Leonardo was also revered for his technological ingenuity. He
conceptualized, among many others, a helicopter, a tank, a
paddleboat, a self-propelling cart, concentrated solar power, a
calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of
plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed
or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his
smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a
machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the
world of manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist, he greatly
advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil
engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

Da Vinci Machines Series
Paddleboat
Adopted power equipment unit designed by Leonardo da Vinci
Paddle wheels operated by mechanical spring
Two pedals set the mechanism in motion that are linked to a
belt, creating a reciprocating motion to rotate the paddles