Friday, May 01, 2020

Turbo or rollers? Leonardo thought of it first

Brian Bent sends this thought:

Turbo or rollers ?? You can pay over £600 for some rollers! Why not make your own, using some old wheel hubs ( solid axles ) and angle iron ?? They could be ready for coronavirus mk2.

Brian b,

He also came across this early design in a book of Leonardo da Vinci inventions:


2 comments:

Neil C said...

Brilliant. I'm off to my garage to start making one. I may be some while.

Mark G said...

Although the drawing is undoubtedly Leonardo (see how cleverly he has done mirror writing?), I would suggest that the rollers themselves were earlier.

Probably from the Florentine lockdown of 1349, which was a plague year.