Engineering is one of the fields in which Leonardo expressed his ideas best. He laid down the basis for a new way of designing and invented what is now taught in schools as technical drawing. He gave us a lot to admire: views in plan, exploded views, perspectives and working drawings, all so beautiful and fascinating that we forget we are looking at a technical subject.

Leonardo is an inimitable scientific artist inimitable and may be considered also the first designer in history. He also tried hard to understand how to build a machine that would enable man to fly.