Top 10 Amazing Inventions by Leonardo da Vinci

You need to see these strange and unbelievable 15th century inventions from the famous artist, engineer, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci. Noted for fascinating creations such as tanks, machine guns, siege engines, and parachutes, this creator was centuries ahead of his time.

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From machine guns and helicopters to 15th century tanks, Leonardo da Vinci created and designed a lot of things in his life. But you might be surprised with just how ahead of his time this Italian native really was. Stay tuned to #1 to see WHICH of his 15th century inventions you use every day!

#10 The First Machine Gun

In school, most of us learn that Da Vinci was a painter, a composer, and a man of the arts. We’re here to tell you today that good ol’ Leonardo might actually have been a good deal more hardcore than you might think.

While he’s still the same man who painted classics such as Mona Lisa and the most famous depiction of The Last Supper, Da Vinci also invented what some consider being the first machine gun. To make this feat even more impressive, he did this in a century where people were really unsure as to what gunpowder’s place might be in the future of warfare.

The reason that gunpowder didn’t really take off until a few centuries later is simple: no one had figured out how to make its use safe and reliable in the 1400s. Cannons were big and heavy things that took ages to reload — they just weren’t all that practical.

Da Vinci wasn’t having such arbitrary limitations in his own inventions, however. His “Triple Barrel Cannon” was lightweight and mounted on a carriage for easy transport. The groundbreaking weapon could also be reloaded from the front rather easily.

Did we mention that it had three barrels? Well, yep, it did — making Da Vinci the inventor of the closest thing to the world’s first machine gun.You know that you’re doing something right when it takes the rest of the world around five-hundred years to catch up to you.

#9 A Portable Bridge

Back in Da Vinci’s day, warfare included a lot of walking. Soldiers didn’t have the luxury of being transported by train, car, or plane. No, they had to rely on their own two feet and the animals that they could train.

Having to have to get everywhere on the “heel/toe express” really made the issue of rivers and waterways a problem for ancient armies — no company of soldiers likes being wet, after all. In Leo’s time, typical warfare involved a lot of city and castle sieging? And what do castles have? Moats! (Which are a big enough problem all on their own.)

We already told you that Da Vinci was a military engineer as well as an artist. Well…when it came to his military designs, Leonardo was well known for valuing efficiency. It’s no surprise then that he would tackle the problem of soldiers having to walk through every bit of water that was stuck in their way.

To solve for this, the inventor did no less than create a wheeled, portable, and revolving bridge that armies could drag along behind them. In his personal notes, Leonardo described this invention of his bridge as “light yet rugged.”

We bet the soldiers that got to use the bridge loved him for this one, since it meant no more wet uniforms or rusty swords for them.

#8 A Giant Horse

Among one of his many sculpting projects, Da Vinci was hired by one of his patrons to create a 24-foot tall horse! The Duke of Milan funded this project, even despite it requiring an exorbitantly expensive amount of bronze. There was so much material that needed to be applied to his sculpture, that Leonardo was forced to create a new casting technique to make sure that the horse’s bronze shell would be immune to cracks or faults.

Unfortunately, the Duke of Milan was put in a tight spot when the King of France invaded Italy. The Duke ended up having to offer the nearly 40 tons of bronze meant for Da Vinci’s sculpture to the invading monarch as a bribe.

Leonardo was somewhat upset about not being able to finish his project and died never being able to complete it.

Luckily the story does have a happy ending. Leonardo’s horse was later completed and the man who had done so donated the sculpture to Da Vinci’s birth country of Italy.

#7 A Robot Knight

A good number of Da Vinci’s designs included the use of ropes and pulleys, but none more so than a robotic knight that he created for a pageant in Milan.

The robot was designed without a single unneeded part and could sit down, stand up, and even raise its visor.

Leonardo’s designs were so finely formulated that some of NASA’s robots are designed after his work on the Robotic Knight.

And we thought his invention of the machine gun was impressive!