Leonardo da Vinci (exhibition)
The exhibition Leonardo da Vinci - Moving Inventions is a traveling exhibition with functional mechanical models that have been produced on the basis of technical drafts and sketches by the universal scholar Leonardo da Vinci .
The models mainly consist of the materials available in the 15th century, such as wood and metal. The exhibition was created in 2004 by the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . It has been shown in museums in Germany and other European countries since 2007 . The initiator and curator of the exhibition is the engineering scientist Horst Langer .
description
The exhibition emerges from the Leonardo project in the product development / mechatronics course at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. It was created in 2004 as part of the engineering and mathematics department . Around 400 students had studied the topic by 2016. Since then, around 100 models with an interactive character have been created. In keeping with the motto “Understanding Leonardo by Understanding”, most of the models can be touched and moved by visitors to the exhibition.
The models were created by combining art, history and technology. Leonardo da Vinci's maxim “There is always another possibility” applied to the realization of the models. This corresponds to the idea of product development with the search for new solutions and the optimization of products and processes.
In 2014, in cooperation with a Bremen culture agency, a mobile building with an area of 1,800 m² was created with which a five-year tour will be carried out in several major European cities until 2019, the 500th year of Leonardo da Vinci's death.
Exhibits
Based on Leonardo da Vinci's two-dimensional drawings and sketches, the exhibits were created as three-dimensional mechanical models. Among the hundreds of his surviving sketches, there are mainly machine designs that were supposed to simplify and facilitate work processes. This includes, for example, the pawl on cranes , which protects against accidentally falling loads.
The models for the exhibition were created in the following areas:
- Motion conversion, as Wechselhub- rack , rope-coupled screw jacks, screw jack joint-coupled, parallel push rod gear
- Bridges such as pontoon bridge , flying bridge, swing bridge, Bosphorus bridge
- Vehicles, such as measuring vehicles , paddle wheel boats
- Aviation, such as parachute , glider, wing, propeller , articulated wing
- Lifting and conveying equipment , such as Archimedes' screw , pulley , heavy lifts, dredgers , loading crane , elevator
- War technology, such as slingshot , double hull , scaling ladder , scaling ladder defense, divers, tanks , organ gun
- Machines such as printing press , earth auger, cam hammer , ratchet gear , mirror grinding machine
- Machine elements such as cams , screws, gears , springs , chains , ball bearings , stone tongs
- Measuring devices such as anemometer , flow meter , candle watch , perpetual motion machine , moon phase indicator
- Music and theater equipment such as spotlights, drum machines, revolving stages
Sketch and model
Leonardo sketch
stone tongs
Leonardo sketch
ball bearings
Leonardo sketch
pawl
Leonardo sketch
cam hammer
Leonardo sketch
rotary crane
Stone tongs model
Model ball bearing
Pawl model
Cam hammer model
Model of slewing crane
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literature
- Leonardo da Vinci - Moving Inventions. Exhibition catalog of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld 2012.
Web links
- Website for the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition
- Exhibition brochure (PDF; 4.5 MiB)
- Ariane Mönikes: Students recreated working Da Vinci models. In: Neue Westfälische from August 3, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Project Leonardo of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. Students develop models based on the sketches by Leonardo da Vinci ( memento of the original from July 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Leonardo da Vinci - moving inventions ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
- ↑ Big future plans for the Leonardo exhibition at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.
- ↑ Leonardo exhibition of the IuM department in Bremen opens at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.
