{"id":420,"date":"2004-04-25T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/25\/leonardo-continues-to-be-the-smartest-man-ever-made\/"},"modified":"2004-04-25T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-25T14:46:00","slug":"leonardo-continues-to-be-the-smartest-man-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/25\/leonardo-continues-to-be-the-smartest-man-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo continues to be the smartest man ever made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=ljsyndicationlink><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/briefs\/20040419\/davinci_print.html\"><font color=#cc6633>A spring-propelled car conceived by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries ago could have paved the way for the Mars rovers, an eight-month study of a drawing by the Renaissance genius has revealed. <\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drawn on sheet number 812r of the Atlantic Codex in 1478, when Leonardo was 24 years old, the sketch has been translated into a one-third scale model at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence. <\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the wooden 5-foot by 5-foot, 6-inch model, on display at the museum until June 5, has proved what has been doubted for centuries: the machine actually moves. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the world&#8217;s first self-propelled vehicle. It was designed to operate as a robot and could travel for about 40 meters. It featured a programmable steering and a brake that could be released at distance by an operator with a hidden rope,&#8221; Paolo Galluzzi, director of the museum, told Discovery News&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>(Found on DiePunyHuman.com)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spring-propelled car conceived by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries ago could have paved the way for the Mars rovers, an eight-month study of a drawing by the Renaissance genius has revealed. Drawn on sheet number 812r of the Atlantic Codex in 1478, when Leonardo was 24 years old, the sketch has been translated into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2004\/04\/25\/leonardo-continues-to-be-the-smartest-man-ever-made\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leonardo continues to be the smartest man ever made&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}