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Anchiano, Italy
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He got the job to design military fortifications for the region because they were at war.
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He studied and designed war instruments such as tanks, catapults, submarines, machine guns, and other weapons while in Milan.
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The smallest of all of his notebooks that contains three sheets of notes on geometry, weights, mechanics, and hydraulic machines.
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He detailed plans for a three-wheeled, wind-up, self-moving "auto-mobile" that has also been considered the first "robot."
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In his studies, he wrote the first systematic explanations of how machines work and how the elements of machines can be combine. He figured out that he could break things down to small pieces and then turn it into one whole thing.
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Da Vinci made a sketch of the invention with this accompanying description: "If a man have a tent made of linen of which the apertures (openings) have all been stopped up, and it be twelve braccia (about 23 feet) across and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any great height without suffering any injury."
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He designed an early predecessor to the helicopter, however a helicopter was not built until the 1940s.
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These two books contain almost 200 pages about mechanics and a manual for a foundry system for creating an immense horse.
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A notebook where he had written his ideas right to left.
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Clos Lucé, Amboise, France