Leonardo da Vinci is know for his spectacular inventions, including a mechanical submarine, a time machine, a mechanical dragonfly, Milan’s flying machine… and many more: flying, hydraulic, military and musical machines; machines that could help people work and machines that could entertain them; printing presses, odometers, bow compasses, oil chandeliers, elevators, roasters, drills, chairs, benches and braziers.

“There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal, so incapable of fulfillment, so full of yearning for the infinite, so naturally refined, so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries”, noted Hippolyte Taine in his “Voyage en Italie”. To get a closer look to this genius’s inventions, visit “Leonardo 3 – The world of Leonardo” in Milan (Piazza della Scala), which will be open until the end of 2019 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of this extraordinary figure’s death (on 2 May 2019).