Transcript Flapping Machine (Armando & Euridice & Lisette)

Flapping Machine
by Leonardo da Vinci
Euridice Giambanis
Lisette Groot
Armando Bajares
ESST- November 1st 2002
Topics of Discussion
 1st Approach: Leonardo’ s life in the
Renaissance
 2nd Approach: Aviation History
 Conclusion
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Flapping Machine
 Leonardo starts drawings
at 1496.
 Contains
studies
for
mechanical flight.
 Flier’s
feet
drive
alternatively two ropes
wound over the rims of two
pulleys, to which the wing
tips are tied.
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1st Approach: Flapping machine in
the framework of Leonardo’s life
 Leonardo lived in the
Renaissance period
 Some called him “genius”
(architect, sculptor,
painter, scientist, e.t.c.)
 Talented personality
 Highly-estimated person
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1st Approach: Flapping machine in
the framework of Leonardo’s life
 There is no boundary between
Science and Art
 An effort to understand how
the nature works
 Flapping machine was a
method
to
expand
his
knowledge
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2nd Approach: Flapping Machine in
Aviation history
 From Icarus & Daedalus to
Wright Brothers’ first
airplane
 How birds fly, construction of
the wing
 Ornithopterus with flapping
wings moved by human power
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2nd Approach: Flapping Machine in
Aviation history
 Flapping machine as a piece of
engineering
 Nowadays it is a
technological invention for
the aviation history
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Approaches to technological inventions
History of
aviation
Wright
brothers
Leonardo’s
life
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Flapping
Machine
STS
view
War
machines
Anatomy Mona
studies
Lisa
Renaissance
period
Conclusion
Every scientific or historical event can
be interpreted in different ways as it is
always depended on the perspective with
which it is analyzed.
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Conclusion
From our point of view the FM represents:
 an invention in a particular historical
context, with different meanings for
different fields in the history of
Scientific
and
Technological
developments.
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