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Six Da Vinci Machines Built With Modern Materials - Workshop Drama, August 9, 2010

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The 2 DVD set "Doing Da Vinci" contains six episodes. In each episode, builders attempt to create a machine that is based on the drawings and notes of Leonardo Da Vinci. The advertising claim that they work "using only materials available in da Vinci's own time" is false. In fact, they use plywood, steel beams and the nuts and bolts that you find in modern hardware stores. They use modern saws, drills, mills, and welders. (I am not disturbed by this. Da Vinci's era did have steel and wood. Making steel beams and plywood would have been possible, although laborious. The episodes are certainly not valid tests of the economic feasibility of Da Vinci's concepts.) The sheer size of some machines is impressive. Many of their beams and posts are larger than the typical handyman would encounter. When a project is completed, it is given some undemanding tests. For example, the mobility of the "armored tank" is only tested by a few runs on a flat cleared lot. The focus of the... Read more

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4 1/3 hrs. total on two discs. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo. **2 discs. 4 1/3 hrs.**

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Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance Man - master of science, master of the arts, master of war. His revolutionary designs were the most advanced weapons of their day and were capable of unparalleled destruction. Yet no proof exists that they were ever constructed. In Doing DaVinci a team of expert builders will try to construct these unique inventions using only materials available in da Vinci's own time. It's a modern twist on the classics, but will these outrageous machines work? Or were Leonardo's genius ideas better left in the history books?