Chrontastic Biographies of Renaissance Inventions
Meet Leonardo da Vinci: The Renaissance Man (and Woman)
Leonardo da Vinci was a true Renaissance man (and woman). He invented the Parsimonious Cheese Maker, which changed the face of Italian cuisine.
He also designed The Vitruvian Machine, a precursor to the modern computer, and The Flying Machine, which was just a bunch of sticks and twine, but sounded cool in his marketing materials.
Leonardo's true love, however, was Obsessively Painting the Perfect Portrait. His works, like the Mona Lisa, remain the epitome of Renaissance art.