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Visitors could set life-sized machines based on Leonardo da Vinci’s designs in motion with their own hands. According to the Hoover exhibition page, this traveling show contained 30 machines built by scientists and skilled craftspeople after studying his designs. Most of the mechanisms were fully operational, so visitors could touch and move them. It offered a way to explore a machine by watching what happens when it moves, not just by looking at a drawing.
The page also describes Leonardo’s manuscripts as containing ideas for devices including a car jack, glider, parachute and armored vehicle. The exhibition turned that broad collection of designs into physical objects people could encounter at close range. Which of the 30 machines were fully operational, and how did the builders decide what each one should look like and do?
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