Show DA wheelbarrow leonardo da vinci born in 1452 the illegitimate son of a florentine lawyer is considered by many to have been the most universal genius the world has ever produced hia activities embraced all the fields of art and science in his day while he is best knoian as the painter of mona lisa and the last supper he was also accomplished beyond his contemporaries as sculptor musician military engineer astronomer botanist anatomist geologist and what not but great as his contributions to art and science the most lasting benefits which he conferred upon mankind were probably in the ime of mechanical invention although many of his conceptions were not developed practically until centuries later it is said that he invented a flying machine which would have been a success with a modem motor for which the world had to wait another years one of his inventions was the wheelbarrow which simple as it appears to us has been one of the greatest labor savers ever devised through the application of pure mechanics it seems strange to us that so many centuries elapsed between the invention of the wheel and that of the wheelbarrow that da vinci was the first to hit upon this humble but most useful means of transportation is added proof of his genius |