AGES Genius is Timeless Multi-barreled Canon Instruction manual 8+
Contents • About Leonardo Da Vinci P.1 • Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci P.4 • Leonardo Da Vinci’s Design: Multi-barreled Cannon P.6 • The Multi-barreled Cannon Concept Was A Precursor To The Modern Day Machine Gun P.7 • Components P.10 • How To Assemble P.11 • How to Operate the Multi-barreled Cannon P.12 • Da Vinci Series Kit P.
(April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) “Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. Da Vinci was an artist, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.
strengthen the Moor’s position in battles. The letter hinted at inventions that included portable lightweight bridges and improved designs for bombards, mortars, catapults, covered assault vehicles and weapons. The Moor eventually became Da Vinci’s patron and kept him busy with everything from designing a heating system to painting portraits, to overseeing production of cannons and even decorating the vaulted ceilings in his castle.
Da Vinci later took positions with King Louis XII and Pope Leo X and ultimately with the King of France, Francis I. It was the King who offered Da Vinci the title, Premier Painter and Engineer and Architect of the King. Francis I valued Da Vinci’s great mind and his sole function was to engage in conversations about Renaissance culture and art with the benevolent royal.
Several common themes recur in the now fragile notebooks: Nature, Technology (including gears, cogwheels, screws and pulleys), aviation and vision, to name a few. Upon the death of Leonardo Da Vinci, the notebooks were given to his long-time friend, Count Francesco Melzi. Melzi did not fully comprehend the value of the information and published only a portion of the volumes. He placed the notebooks in his home where they were viewed by guests who sometimes took pages with them as souvenirs.
Da Vinci’s Notebooks Da Vinci’s notebooks are now more than 500 years old. They are not bound the way a typical book would be today, but rather comprised of loose sheets of paper gathered into collections and wrapped with fabric. Paper was scarce in Da Vinci’s time, so he used every available space in a page for drawings, observations, even recipes and shopping lists, making them somewhat difficult to interpret.
Leonardo da Vinci’s design: Multi-barreled Cannon Da Vinci developed the Multi-Barreled Cannon in 1480. The 12-barreled gun carriage was a vast improvement over traditional cannons of the fifteenth century. Leonardo’s design called for a fan-like shape that widened the firepower and made it a potentially more effective weapon against a line of advancing troops. It also featured a clever aiming and loading mechanism that made replenishing ammunition faster and easier for soldiers engaged in battle.
THE MULTI-BARRELED CANNON CONCEPT WAS A PRECURSOR TO THE MODERN DAY MACHINE GUN Pioneers of the modern day machine gun Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling developed a working prototype for the Gatling Gunin 1862, hundreds of years after Da Vinci invented the Multi-Barreled Cannon. Gatling created a rapid-fire weapon that was a forerunner of the modern machine gun.
HOW DO MACHINE GUNS WORK? To understand how machine guns work, it helps to know something about firearms in general. Almost any gun is based on one simple concept: Apply explosive pressure behind a projectile to launch it down a barrel. The earliest, and simplest, application of this idea is the cannon. A cannon is a metal tube with a closed end and an open end. The closed end has a small fuse hole.
The Recoil System Breech Bolt Barrel Spring Rear Spring Trigger Sear Cartridge Belt FUN FACT WWII fighter pilots used the term “the whole 9 yards.” Their .50 caliber machine gun ammunition belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, they used "the whole 9 yards.
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4 How to Assemble G I H H I J How to Operate the Multi-barreled Cannon 12
The scientific genius of Leonardo Da Vinci is brought to life through articulated models offered by Edu-Science. The inventions that inspired these snap-together replicas are taken from the pages of Da Vinci’s priceless and awe-inspiring notebooks. Edu-Science Da Vinci Series Kits Mechanical Drum Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical drum was designed as a cart equipped with an amply sized drum. When pulled by its handle, the gears turn the two lateral drums, which are fitted with pegs.
Swing Bridge The Swing Bridge was a portable, lightweight bridge intended to span a body of water for armies to cross, and then quickly disassemble in order to tow away. Equipped with a rope and wheels, the lightweight bridge was designed for easy transport. DV003 Printing Press Leonardo da Vinci studied the Guttenberg printing press and finely-tuned it for greater efficiency.
Paddleboat In Da Vinci’s time, nautical expedition was the most expedient method of communicating with the world and his design for a boat with large wheel-shaped paddles that would propel it through water offered a faster and easier method of water transportation. DV008 Self-Propelled Cart Da Vinci’s self-propelled cart was the first to be capable of moving without being pushed or pulled manually.
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