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Article: Da Vinci comes to Chicago
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- Courier News (Elgin, IL)
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- April 21, 2006
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If you're any kind of Renaissance person, and you know you are, you already know a bit about Leonardo da Vinci.
He was a genius, for one. He was a painter, for another.
And, of course, there's a code named for him.
What you might not know - that he designed the first underwater apparatus, that he liked to write backward and that he sketched plans for a helicopter hundreds of years before one was actually invented - you can now learn in a new exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
"Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" opened last week and continues to Sept. 4. It features 60 custom-built wooden models of Leonardo's most innovative designs and inventions, many of which are ...
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