Just spotted this lovely story on the BBC News website: a Swiss amateur parachutist has made a successful descent using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. And there’s a video of the jump too so you can see the design – quite different from a modern [...]
Recreating the past with Da Vinci's inventions
April 28th, 2008 · Comments Off · Bizarre news, Weird and wonderful
Tags: Leonardo da Vinci·parachute
