Leonardo Da Vinci's Bad Ideas

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Published 2024-05-21
Explore the fascinating genius and human flaws of Leonardo da Vinci! From his ingenious flying machines to his impractical diving suits, discover Da Vinci's lesser-known, unsuccessful inventions. Join us on this captivating journey!

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All Comments (21)
  • @bile73
    Editor please stop the glitch fades
  • Terry pratchett had the best description of da Vinci with the character Leonard of quirm. Who is constantly unconsciously doodling terrible functional world changing machines in the margins of books without really being conscious of what he had created
  • @THE-X-Force
    That "digital distortion" effect is annoying af .. bzzzzt!
  • @evanr.2586
    In his biography of Leonardo, Walter Isaacson discusses that Leonardo earned most of his income by staging stage plays. Some historians theorize the many of Leonardo's inventions were designs for stage props. Several of the flying machines look like that could be plausible.

    Of course that's just a theory. But I think it is an interesting one.
  • @alm5992
    7:28 To quote Fry and professor Farnsworth in Futurama:

    Fry: "Wow, could that thing really fly!?"

    Farnsworth: "Of course not, that thing is as aerodynamic as a sofa!"
  • @javaks
    He's one Donatello short of Ninja Turtles.
  • @NathanaelNewton
    The glitch sound effect volume is what happens when the editor doesn't wear headphones while editing 😮
  • No use for a functional diving suit in the 1500s. Hmm... The primary use for the first successful diving suits was salvage operations. As such, if Leonardo's design worked, it would have found some happy customers.
  • If he had developed a working diving suit, people would've figured out a use for it. To call it a "bad idea" because it didn't make it past the red tape is simply wrong.
  • @ZOB4
    Feels weird to hear Simon talk about Da Vinci without telling a story about how thought it was Da Vin-see for the longest time
  • They should have titled this, "Leonardo Da Vinci's Good Ideas, Most of Which Worked With Some Fine Tuning".
  • @greenredblue
    The most important thing I learned from this is that even da Vinci felt the need to pad his resume.
  • @megaflux7144
    the diving suit would have worked well for looting the ships sunk by a cannon ball.
  • @ThorParker
    4:20 I get it!!! It was to destroy ships carrying gold and then being able to bring up their valuable resources, for which the army would benefit greatly through reinvesting the income into warfare, damaging the economy of the opposition, or even potentially recovering weapons for reuse.
  • Wow. No advertisements. This is a first in forever. Thx, Simon.
  • @davidliskey3553
    There was a show on discovery channel where they built some of his designs, including that tank, pretty cool, most worked, they fixed flaws in some designs and made them work. Really good show
  • @steveb6386
    A few of what he did invent that are used today: The pawl (Used on gears and is actuated in the transmission on an automatic transmission when 'P' is elected), The tank/armored car. Made Guttenberg's printing press semi automatic. The hang glider. The parachute. Method of using sprockets and chains to drive wheels. A crane that rotated. A type of artillery gun. A cantilever bridge that could be assembled quickly without tools to cross rivers. The diving helmet.
  • As brilliant as he was he was entitled to make a few mistakes and bad inventions. Most of us can't say the same thing.
  • @vaibanez17
    IMO, being even that close to a working flight apparatus in 1480 is worth praise, even if his exact models wouldn't have worked without changes and modifications.
  • @mustangiiii
    Simon of Kent, the renaissance man of YouTube