Cloth Shearing Machine of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Article by Franz M. Feldhaus describing Leonardo da Vinci's designs, from about 1500, for a mechanically driven cloth shearing machine. It opens with a short biography of Leonardo and the fate of his manuscripts, then goes through six drawings from the Codex Atlanticus. These show four shearing tables driven by a swinging shaft, tension rolls, gearing, spring and springless shear mechanisms, and Leonardo's own notes. It ends by noting that Everett of Wiltshire invented a similar machine in 1758.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 1929
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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