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The best inventor of all time was perhaps the most remarkable scientist of the last 20 centuries, Leonardo DaVinci. Regarded as the epitome of the "Renaissance Man", displaying skills in many and diverse areas. He was an Italian polymath, anatomist, architect, astronomer, botanist, chemist, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, painter, scientist, sculptor and writer. The areas of his scientific study also included aeronautics, civil engineering, geology, geometry, hydrodynamics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics, pyrotechnics and zoology. 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. His inventions reveal a man who was far ahead of his time.

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Helen Gardner says "The scope and depth of his interests were without precedent...His mind and personality seems to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".

Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, 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.

Whilst the full extent of his scientific studies has only become recognized in the last 150 years, he was, during his lifetime, employed for his engineering and skill of invention. Many of his designs, such as the movable dykes to protect Venice from invasion, proved too costly or impractical. Some of his smaller inventions entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the helicopter, the tank, the submarine, the parachute the use of concentrated solar power, a calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics and the double hull. In practice, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics).

Leonardo's most famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, is a study of the proportions of the human body, linking art and science in a single work that has come to represent Renaissance Humanism.
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Among his many inventions:

1) Toilet
2) Scissors
3) Machine Gun
4) Helicopter
5) Tank
6) Submarine
7) Contact Lenses
8) Paddleboat
9) Glider
10) Flying Machine
11) Napkin
12) Self-propelling cart
13) Odometer
14) Compass
15) Articulated Transportable Elevator
16) Mechanical Saw

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"The Vitruvian Man" quite possibly the best known drawing in the world.

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Model of Leonardo´s Parachute.

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Model of a Tank by Leonardo.
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