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Italian commuters find a moment of peace on a cable-guided ferry sketched by Leonardo da Vinci

By: NICCOLÒ LUPONE

The ferry glides from one bank of northern Italy’s Adda River to the other, guided by a cable and pulled by currents, offering harried commuters five minutes of serenity and an alternate route now that a bridge closure has backed up traffic.

Called “Leonardo’s Ferry,’’ the mechanism of the so-called reaction ferry was designed five centuries ago and immortalized by the Renaissance genius himself in a drawing preserved in Windsor Castle’s Royal Collection outside of London.

Source: https://apnews.com/

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