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Father of Flight

This is one area of his work where he actually built and experimented with some of his designs. His ideas, sketched in many notebooks, foreshadowed the gliders, airplanes, helicopters and parachutes of today.

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Da Vinci - Inventions
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  1. Welcome and Introduction
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  2. Life and Times
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  3. About Leonardo
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  4. Codices - Notebooks
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  5. Anatomical Studies
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  6. Alphabet and Introduction to Leonardo's Inventions
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  7. Civil Machines
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  8. Autotraction Car
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  9. The Ideal City
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  10. Father of Flight
  11. Aerial Screw
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  12. Flying Machine
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  13. Glider
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  14. Parachute
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  15. Introduction and Overview of Aquatic and Hydraulic Machines
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  16. Emergency Bridge
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  17. Scuba and Breathing Equipment
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  18. Submarine
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  19. Paddle Boat
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  20. Instruments of Optics, Music, and Time
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  21. Mechanical Drum
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  22. Spot Light
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  24. Physics and Mechanical Principals
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  25. The Last Supper
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  26. Bicycle
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  27. Military Engineering
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  28. Ogival Bullet
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  29. Three-Registered Machine Gun
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  30. Tank
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  31. Steam Canon
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  32. The Battle of Anghiara Drawings
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  33. Renaissance Art
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  34. The Mona Lisa
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  35. Self Portrait
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  36. The Lady with an Ermine
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  37. Annunciation
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  38. Virgin of the Rocks
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  39. The Madonna Litta
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  40. The Benois Madonna
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  41. Portrait of a Musician
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  42. St. Jerome
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  43. The Vitruvian Man
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  44. Sforza Horse Sculpture
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  45. Conclusion and Thank You
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