Da Vinci's parachute was tested by a skydiver about a decade ago. While it did hold together, it was impossible to control, unstable, and too heavy. The skydiver bailed after about a minute.

Da Vinci's design for an efficient city sounds almost exactly like Walt Disney's original design for EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow). Walt had the trucks moving goods in and waste out at the bottom level, the next level up was shops and entertainments, the next level up was living space, and the final, top, layer was parks, outdoor music amphitheaters, and recreational areas. I never heard that Disney took any inspiration from Da Vinci, but I wouldn't be surpirised.

What could Da Vinci creat if he was born today? He made all that with medieval technology imagine what he could do with today's.

@pegasusted2504

3 жыл бұрын

He is. He is just called Elon now :~)

@BIGJATPSU

3 жыл бұрын

@@pegasusted2504 you might be right there. 😉

@80wolfmanrob

3 жыл бұрын

@@pegasusted2504 Elon doesn't paint lol

@BIGJATPSU

3 жыл бұрын

@@80wolfmanrob he'll have a robot do that for him probably. 😂

@pegasusted2504

3 жыл бұрын

@@80wolfmanrob I don't know. Listening to him talk about his vision for humanities future on other planets and all that goes with it paints a wicked picture of the future to me. ;~)

Love all your channels

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

All 11? U must be a legendary legend. Allegedly

1:00 - Chapter 1 - War machines 1:35 - Chapter 2 - Giant crossbow 3:20 - Chapter 3 - The 1st tank 4:20 - Chapter 4 - Flying machines 4:45 - Chapter 5 - The aerial screw 6:10 - Chapter 6 - Winged flying machines 7:25 - Chapter 7 - The parachute 8:40 - Chapter 8 - The ideal city

Dont forget that only only part of Leonardo's work notes survived to this day many more are either undiscovered or destroyed

@spritemon98

3 жыл бұрын

Who knows what other idea's he had

@annescholey6546

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't he meet Stewie Griffin?

@Arcanua

3 жыл бұрын

We know most of them were destroyed, since he was deemed heretical his house was trashed afetr his death. Which meant most of his notes too went with that mess. However we still have a good chunk of them non the less.

They didn't have carbon fiber or polymers back then, but you could stil build a pretty good glider with silk and spruce. I really liked his city design. Overhead walkways for pedestrians while leaving the streets for heavy traffic sounds like a great idea. There are places in downtown Toronto where they have done just that.

@spritemon98

3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely loved his city design too

@oldenweery7510

3 жыл бұрын

I remember an unintentionally hilarious movie supposed to be a medieval, or maybe prehistoric, adventure, where a princess was in danger from a cult with a huge _growling_ snake. She was hiding in a rural village where nobody could find her---even though she was the only girl or woman wearing a _fur Bikini!_ The hero's plan involved him flying in from above---in an obvious aluminum framed _hang glider,_ disguised by wrapping the frame inside bundles of straw! Ah, Leonardo, you should've _sued_ 'em! Stay safe.

@fixman88

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldenweery7510 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ator_2_%E2%80%93_L%27invincibile_Orion I saw the MST3K Version, 'The Cave Dwellers'. When Miles O' Keefe found out about the MST3K episode he thought it was hilarious, and the MST3K crew actually sent him a DVD of it!

I like the Voyager episode where holographic DaVinci ends up roaming around an alien trade port. Some actually really good insight into the psyche of the Maestro.

When Simon puts out so many flight videos that most of the recommended videos are his...

This isn't his real channel, this is just a side project. : {o

awesome! keep em coming simon love it

The Mythbuster guys, Adam and Jamie, actually did several builds of his inventions. If the show didn't focus so much on the interpersonal conflict and more on the design it would have been a keeper.

Good video 👍

@jankcitycustoms

3 жыл бұрын

you haven't even watched it yet

@elenapelayo1

3 жыл бұрын

@@jankcitycustoms Simon's videos are always of quality!

Simon. Your honestly the only reason I get on KZread . your sarcasm is life.

@j.a.weishaupt1748

3 жыл бұрын

*you’re

The boy with the blaze

@XDarkGreyX

3 жыл бұрын

Such a creative comment

I can’t remember the episode name but Star Trek: Voyager had an episode where Captain Kathryn Janeway runs a holodeck programme about Leonardo Da Vinci and it highlights one of his flying machines. Even in the fictional 24th century, he inspired.

The slight background audio in these videos always makes me think I'm hearing things!

Side project...the lesser-known bits of the Apollo program, like the launch pad itself. How was a 300+ ft tall rocket held in place prior to launch? What did it sit on and still give enough clearance for the F1 engines? How did it hold the vehicle down when the thrust was approaching 7 million pounds? Some good engineering in there.

Great clips

I feel like this channel doesn’t get enough love from the TopTenz and Megaprojects crowds...

@elenapelayo1

3 жыл бұрын

Slowly growing!

It's 7AM. Time for some Simon videos.

@dillonrose2089

3 жыл бұрын

Its 11:14 in ohio

aerial screw, i thought that was the mile high club ;)

This guy looks oddly similar to that guy from Biographics. They even have the same name. Very, very strange.

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Seems a bit like the guy on the Blaze. Around 10 or so channels. Weird 😆

@flowertrue

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 yeah but that guy is more chill

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

@@flowertrue true but the man with the Blaze slaps more scripts. Ba dum bum tsshh

@sayujraphael

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 allegedly

@j.dmetalhead7517

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he and his vlones are trying to userp power from youtibe and make the internet the Simonweb.

One day Simon will complete his documentation of all things in the universe and ascend to the higher plane of being

Okay I think Side Projects may be my absolute favorite of your channels.. It is ever-curious with a plethora of directions and topics it takes on.

There were some really cool actual-size models built for the film "Hudson Hawk". If you like Da Vinci, comic book movies, song and dance numbers built into a film, movies featuring Bruce Willis in his comedic mode, or Andy MacDowel (from Groundhogs Day, Multiplicity); I highly recommend it.

Gutted this is not a 2 hour video

@sbennett2435

3 жыл бұрын

With all of his inventions, you could do a whole series about him.

"Ezio! I think I've figured out how to make a man fly." - Leonardo da Vinci, Ezio Auditore's Q.

There used to be a show about building Da Vinci's machines on Discovery, sci-fi or whatever channel, but I don't think it made it past a few episodes.

DaVinci would be a grand Biographics topic.

@elenapelayo1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

I saw a group make da Vinci's giant crossbow, on PBS, I think. It almost worked: they had trouble with the laminated bow portion, though.

Suggestion for side project/megaproject/geographics: Mt Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monument. If you wanted to include other large mountain sculptures you could include Stone Mountain Monument and address the controversy

A man ahead of his time

@05:55 _"This Innovation ( ball bearings ) has been incorporated into hundreds of machines"_ - You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers.

Most importantly of all, he was the inspiration for one of Pterry's characters.

I love everything about Da Vinci. He must have been an amazing person to talk to today!

@JoeMartinMusic

3 жыл бұрын

given that he's long dead i think he'd be very boring to talk to today

@bodan1196

3 жыл бұрын

Ever heard the saying; "Never meet your heros"? But I think that I agree, it would be quite interesting to show him how the world has progressed from his days.

@CezarBianu

3 жыл бұрын

@@bodan1196 Heard about that saying. I don't know if I agree with it tho, everyone was/is human, and people that expect something else are just bonkers..

@bodan1196

3 жыл бұрын

@@CezarBianu The word 'hero' implies a person set apart from a norm, thus it would be odd to expect "just a human". ;-) But I don't particularly disagree. :-) There is another saying: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions". I tend to amend to this with: "Yes, but that same road, also leads away from Hell". But to tie to your point, could not 'unrelatistic expectations' be considered stones also used to pave said road? Having unrealistic expectations, (the expectation that there is a God for example), tends to cause distress and frustration. Frustration that too often find a release in the mistreatment of others, with projected contempt and hateful degregation. Or am I over-analysing something that, basically, is cowardness? A 'shirking of responsibility', claiming that; "What I do, is just part of God's plan". (A claim I do find to be, somewhat cowardly.)

@justbrowsing6327

2 жыл бұрын

Only if you can speak old Italian or latin. 😕

If you ever get a chance for to Amboise in France. The house where he died is now a museum to his inventions. Chateau du Clos Luce. It is fantastic the town is beautiful as well.

Leonardo of course had many other innovations. Another was a car that had a wind up mechanism. I saw a life size model of it at a Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition. I've been to a few.

Here is an idea for a side project video. Catalina 22 sailboat. More of these small sailboats have been built than any other sailboat and a vase majored was built between 1969 and 1990. I think it was 13,000 were built during that time. You might know them as a Jaguar 22 in England. Since that what they were called there.

Suggestion: early gold miners in California, USA. Life at the mine. What was it like?

The guy is an artis engineer scientist inventor architect sculptor carpenter writer this guy does everything and do it ahead of his time too.

When I was a lad, there was a single-page feature in Mechanix Illustrated, called “Inventions Wanted”. . . That’s my take on Leonardo Da Vinci. . . Long on ideas, short on execution. A lot of his “inventions”, when executed, would have looked like those early 20th Century films of attempts at flight that we love to laugh at. . . Three’s a large gulf between “concept” and “product”. Just ask Elon Musk. . .

@lVideoWatcherl

3 жыл бұрын

And nonetheless he designed these machines and utilities hundreds of years before they were actually feasible. He was a visionary and scholar, not a capitalistic product designer. That's the point of the Video, it shows how incredibly far ahead of his time DaVinci was. There is no comparison between him and Musk.

Till recent years Washington DC had a similar rule about heights of buildings relative to the width of the street. That is why you don't see any skyscrapers in the city. You have to go across the Potomac river to Virginia for the areas woth taller buildings.

if he went trough with it, we could've had helicopters in ww1. yeah that's prob not a good thing...

@ED-es2qv

3 жыл бұрын

Davinci didn’t even realize that helicopters will rotate if you don’t stop them. He was just drawing cool looking stuff he had no idea how to make work.

Have you heard of the Da Vinci bridge? It is a bridge that goes up without fasteners and is held in place by friction between the members.

Suggestion: The Great Trail, Canada's coast to coast hiking trail system

6:34 thought my screen had three black dead spot streaks on the bottom center. lol

Good Lord! If Simon’s arms flap any faster, he’d be at least levitating, if not outright flying!

Really interesting

Thanks king

I'm thinking your Side Projects channel is one of your side projects. Perhaps you could start a Mega Disasters channel

He wanted to take Mona Lisa for a ride in his helicopter 😂

Thank you .

I want to create an app that provides links to all of Simon Whistler's podcasts. The challenge is getting it to continuously update so when Simon launches yet another site(s) it will find it (them) and add it (them) to the long list of sites with the links intact. I particularly liked his Stupid Twits Through History site.

Sorta shows the research Ubisoft did to try and recreate these projects for the AC games (2 and Brotherhood) the flying winged machine, the tank and the parachute for example

People have recreated the tank and tried it out. The problem is it doesn't work well on uneven ground. Dig a ditch in front of it and it can't move over it.

You should do a video on the ijn Nagato

I have an idea for a megaprojects.....how Simon does so much

Have you ever heard of or seen the show Doing da Vinci? A team of engineers, carpenters and metal workers try to duplicate his inventions.

9.4/10 .... plenty of side and project but just not enough blaze.

Suggestion: Lake Pontchartrain Causeway! Its the longest continuous bridge over water

"these cannon are too difficult to move... what we really need is a giant 80 foot crossbow." the person is there for scale lmao... ofc it would have needed a siege crew.

I'm not an engineer or anything, but it seems to me that more than the weight, the aerial screw's biggest weak point would be the base spinning as fast as the rotor. This is why modern helicopters have a tail rotor or counter-rotating rotors, to negate the effects of Newton's third law.

Finally found out where Simon went from VisualPolitik

"Da vinci was a peace loving vegetarian" the first invention shown was a giant crossbow

Not once did you call him 'da Vinci'. Well Done!

@DebTheDevastator

3 жыл бұрын

@Richard Hopkins Da Vinci is of Vinci meaning place of birth. His real name is Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci meaning Leonardo son of Ser Piero from Vinci. It would be like calling you your place of birth. Example: Hey of New York did this great thing.

@ArthurMac15

3 жыл бұрын

6:57

Did LD just nonchalantly invented Laminated Wood to built that bow, or was this already a known building material..?

SIMON SIMON SIMON

I am jealous of your accent and I absolutely inspire to use your style of speech where I can in my English diet!

Da Vinci’s mind was fascinating. Where did all that come from? He wasn’t satisfied to ever rest on his laurels-WTF is a laurel, is it comfortable to rest on, never mind, not important. I wonder if his mind was constantly active? If he was ever able to just shut it down? I have two grandsons-from two different daughters-whose minds are always going. They are both bad sleepers. I just find myself questioning why. Do their brains just never stop firing?

A "Sideprojects" episode about Leonardo da Vinci's "side projects." ….? -- okay, Sideprojects, now you're just showing off. ;-}

Go to his museum in Florence Italy. It will blow your mind.

The bow used on the dragon 🐉 Had to🤦🏾‍♂️😂

do you suppose that if da Vinci got his hands on bamboo he would be able to build some of these contraptions? I assume Bamboo is light enough and tough enough to withstand the weight of human being, i know its maluable enough (with heat) to basically make any shape

Shoulda combined the crossbow and somebody in the wing suit

Sugestion: GAF N22 & 24 Nomad twin turbo prop

Bruce Willis flew the flying machine in Hudson Hawk.

@TheCorpsehatch

3 жыл бұрын

Thought the same thing when I got the notification for this video.

For an animated form of many of these inventions watch the Duh-venti code from Futurama

So is flying machines were more "Falling, with style" machines... :P

he came up with the idea but there was nothing around him to make it work

I'm sure he had great focus. These drawings were probably his doodlings, not really meant for be made.

Him, Hawking, Einstein. I want an overpriced sticker with those 3 faces. Would be worth the money, finally, allegedly.

what if it wasnt a tank, but a semi-auto turret, fire one cannon and while its reloading spin 90degress and fire another. the timing of sequencial shots would be atleast halved.

Leonard of Quirm. There's a reference Simon won't get.

Power??

Da vinci shouldn't be a side project....

Imagine the Size of Citys like NewYork, if they would be forced to have open space, as wide as the buildings are high!

Wow.. if his city was actually built we would have a very early modern era

Leonardo has been reincarnated and appears here on KZread, as JoergSprave

Anyone else not particularly impressed by DaVinci? A lot of people could think up and draw top level fantastical pontifications of things many in that era were thinking of (I.e., parachutes, gliders like the birds, mobile impenetrable armed boxes, like a siege tower or covered battering ram but with guns). His tank wheels in the wrong direction is a prime example of being overrated. He seriously screwed they up? And it being intentional to make the device useless is BS. Anyone would see it was wrong on inspection, or when they built it and just simply reverse it around. If we give him credit like this, then do we credit the writers of Star Trek of inventing faster than light travel? Or me as a 5 year old drawing flying cars piloted by a robotic system?

Never had heard about his cities; sewers yes but not that he had a whole city design.

@FirstOfTheMagi

3 жыл бұрын

He and Machiavelli also created plans to reroute the Arno River to take it away from the city of Pisa and remove their connection to the sea. It would've worked had the lead engineer over the execution of the project not altered their plans.

The flying machine works. If you don’t believe Please see the Bruce Willis Classic, Hudson Hawk.

where are the steam air planes

@Jkauppa

3 жыл бұрын

old style sparse lifestyle would be better

Yeah, I was always puzzled over the "Tortoises" wheels pointing in all directions. I would've thought so intelligent a man wouldn't make a mistake like that, so maybe you're right. I seem to recall that he designed a barrel for a cannon so large that it wouldn't cool properly to temper it. I think they dumped it in a river while it was still hot, but I don't know if it was ever usable. Stay safe, everyone.

Dude! Sculptures. Leo D designed rad bronzes.

The man was a genius!

An idea for a video. I recommend the Freedom Train here in the US. In 1937 it ran all over the country. But they refused to stop at any stop that insisted on segregated viewing of the train. A loud message calling for the end to segregation all over the country.

Da Vinci wow

here I thought he was most famous for his inventions and just happened to paint...

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