Elenco Bombard User Manual

BombardInstruction manualGenius is TimelessAGES 8+

8DID YOU KNOW ?Pyotr IIyich Tchaikovksy’s 1812 Overture is performed using an artillery section, alongwith the orchestra. The real cannon fire simulat

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10FJJAEEBDLLK112212How to Assemble

11FFHC34How to Assemble

1212How to Operate the Bombard

13Aerial ScrewThe Aerial Screw design is a precursorof the modern day helicopter.The drawing of Da Vinci’s conceptillustrated the compression of air t

14Swing BridgeThe Swing Bridge was a portable,lightweight bridge intended to span a bodyof water for armies to cross, and then quicklydisassemble in o

15PaddleboatIn Da Vinci’s time, nautical expedition wasthe most expedient method of communicatingwith the world and his design for a boatwith large wh

Notes

iContents• About Leonardo Da Vinci• Da Vinci’s Notebooks• Cannons and Bombards• Da Vinci’s Bombard • Components• How To Assemble• How to Operate the B

BombardInstruction manualGenius is TimelessP38-DV011-81001000Printed in ChinaInterpretation of the original Leonardo da Vinci’s design/copyright by Le

1“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” (April

2strengthen the Moor’s position in battles. The letter hinted at inventions thatincluded portable lightweight bridges and improved designs for bombard

3The Mona Lisa (circa 1503) The Last Supper (circa 1498)Virtruvian Man (circa 1487)Da Vinci later took positions with King Louis XII and Pope Leo X an

4NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCIDa Vinci’s notebooks are now more than 500 years old.They are not bound the way a typical book would betoday, but rath

5Several common themes recur in the now fragilenotebooks: Nature, Technology (including gears,cogwheels, screws and pulleys), aviation and vision,to n

6A bombard is a large-caliber, front-loading medieval cannon, used chiefly in siegesfor throwing heavy stone balls into enemy fortifications.In 1346,

7Leonardo also designed the breech-loading cannon, an improvement of muzzle-loadingcannons that required a fast means cooling before another firing. D