Leonardo da Vinci - Models of Genius

A collection of 23 brass and wooden models carefully constructed from the drawings of 15th century Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci are being prepared for permanent display within UTS. Demonstrating da Vinci's uncanny foretelling of 'modern' innovations such as the Parachute, the Helicopter, the Machine Gun and the Military Tank, the models were built by IBM America in the early 1990s to test da Vinci's 13,000 pages of technical notes and drawings.

The exhibition was brought to Australia in 1994 as a joint venture project between IBM Australia and UTS. Since then the exhibition has concluded two successful national tours of Australian technological universities and associated libraries, museums and galleries as well as nine regional galleries and the Singapore Science Centre, delighting and intriguing over 100, 000 visitors.

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Leonardo da Vinci model, Triple tier machine gun

Leonardo da Vinci model, Roller bearing and variable speed drive