Syed Mansoor Qutab
Leornado Da Vinci constructed a design in the 1500’s to be presented to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. This design was then rejected but after almost more than 500 years, MIT researchers have realized and proven that Da Vinci’s design was practical.
The bridge design was made when Sultan Bayezidd II of the Ottomans wanted a bridge that connected two of his major cities. Da Vinci made the design as a proposal to get the contract of the bridge. His design was unconventional and new for the people. It was more than 900 feet long and included an arch to allow boats to sail underneath it. It was a design that nobody had ever seen and would have been longer than any other bridge of the time.
Da Vinci’s design catered for nature’s adversities, such as heavy winds and fast flowing water. Even modern bridges find themselves breaking down against strong winds, making several of them collapse. This bridge design has now become popular, with the safety features incredibly prominent in designs, where wind walls are made to fight against the heavy winds that may come. Da Vinci was ahead of his time in this regard, and his design incorporated geometry so well that it would not require anything to fasten it together, but would hold in place just by allowing physics and gravity to work.
MIT Researchers built a model using the ideas that Da Vinci had and saw the bridge held in place when the scaffolding was taken out. This goes to show how brilliant Da Vinci was and the fact that he was so ahead of his time that people could comprehend his excellence.
