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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 29012788" data-attributes="member: 562115">He was an all-rounder. A self taught Engineer.In 1502, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire came to Rome to hire a team of civil engineers to design a bridge to stretch across the Golden Horn at Istanbul. Da Vinci offered his services to the Sultan, modeling a structure in his notebook that represented a beautiful synergy of creative artistry and civil engineering.The bridge would have spanned 276 meters of water and the arch would have been high enough for a ship with sails to pass under. Although the Sultan turned down Da Vinci’s proposal, believing the architectural endeavor to be impossible, a modern Swiss scientist, D.F. Stussi, concluded that the plans were “technically feasible”. In 2001, inspired by Da Vinci’s design, an artist in Norway named Vebjorn Sand decided to construct his bridge. Da Vinci’s bridge design stands today over a highway in Norway as a monument to his genius.<a href="https://imgbox.com/fXx8rO7m" target="_blank"><img src="https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/6a/c0/fXx8rO7m_t.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Da Vinci also influenced later bridge builders with his method of bending wooden beams into arches. He devised a technique of notching timber to prevent splitting and interlocking bent and notched beams to create a bearing arch. More than 300 years later, Swiss bridge builders used Da Vinci’s method in their arched wooden bridges.</blockquote>

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