Leonardo da Vinci: The Engineer

Leonardo da Vinci touched many lives in 15th-century Italy, not just with his paintings of the “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper,” but with his scientific investigations of the human body and his many engineering inventions. Da Vinci etched out blueprints for a bridge across the Golden Horn at Istanbul and a much simpler version of the steam engine than James Watt’s invention. It’s all in Illumin, written and published on the Web by USC Viterbi School undergraduates. Illumin is dedicated to exploring the science and technology behind the inventions we take for granted in everyday life.

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