A Bicycle Built on an Italian Renaissance Tech Base

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News Summary

  • A YouTube channel built a bicycle based on a drawing in Leonardo DaVinci’s sketchbook.
  • The bike has both pedals and brakes, both of them using drawings from the Old Master's book.
  • The chain is a weak point of the design; they’d likely have been better off with a leather belt, or perhaps a stack of gears as we’ve seen before.
  • Still, this is recognizably a bicycle and entertaining content for anyone who plans on violating the temporal prime directive or wants to get around after the apocalypse.
There is a drawing of a bicycle in one of Leonarda DaVincis sketchbooks except it wasnt drawn by DaVinci, and dates long after his death, so we cant say the old master invented the bicycle.

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