Leonardo included the plans for this bridge in 1502 as part of a job application to the Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople. He didn’t get the job and the plans disappeared for 500 years until 1952, when they showed up among Istanbul’s national archives. Another forty four years passed before Norwegian artist Vebjorn Sand came across them, at which time he proposed to the admin department of Norway’s Public Roads that the Da Vinci Bridge be built. And here it is. [Details]
DA VINCI BRIDGE, NORWAY
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