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Leonardo da Vinci Museum, Florence, Tuscany Travel Guide
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The recent museum in Florence hosts the largest and most beautiful machines taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s codes. The real interactive machines were build by WMA, company which has careful study of da Vinci’s drawings and created machines which work to a perfection that has never before been achieved.
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Leonardo da Vinci Museum, Florence
The gallery is divided into different sections:
Mechanisms
From da Vinci codex’s the machines showing the principles: motion transformation, locking system, flywheel, worm screw, ball bearer etc.
Earth
Many interactive machines: the printing machine, the revolving crane, the oil press, the rolling mill, the fantastic animal etc.
Water
Still very modern and in use today are the machines inspired to water: the hydraulic saw, the Archimedean screw, the water floats and the webbed glove.
Air
In this section: da Vinci parachute, the wing trial, the anemometer and anemoscope, the hygrometer, the comedy bird etc.
Fire
Artillery machines were inspired by the Atlantic Codex. Among these are the mortar fire and the machine gun. In this section the armored tank, unique in the world for its dimensions and fully interactive.
Leonardo's tank, already in 1485 da Vinci invented and projected a tortoise shaped vehicle, the largest in existence (5.30 x 3 m) and
weighing 2 tons. Four people positioned at the control levers can easily move it.
The gallery is situated in via dei Servi 66/68r (the street which connects piazza Duomo with piazza SS. Annunziata, just a few steps from Michelangelo’s David Museum - galleria Academia).
The gallery is open every day from 10 am to 7 pm.
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