Five hundred years after Leonardo da Vinci's death, the design for what would have been the world's longest bridge span of its time intrigued MIT researchers, who wondered how thought-through Leonardo's concept was and whether it really would have worked. 

Read the article: http://news.mit.edu/2019/leonardo-da-vinci-bridge-test-1010

Five hundred years after Leonardo da Vinci's death, the design for what would have been the world's longest bridge span of its time intrigued MIT researchers, who wondered how thought-through Leonardo's concept was and whether it really would have worked. Read the article: http://news.mit.edu/2019/leonardo-da-vinci-bridge-test-1010

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