Gadget Pageant: Patient Office Marks 175th Anniversary
Gadget Pageant: Patient Office Marks 175th Anniversary
In Washington, DC, where it is celebrating 175 years of service protecting inventors, the Patent Office honors Leonardo Da Vinci, one of the most inventive minds of all time. The form is an exhibit of great Florentine's many anticipatory ideas such as a jack that foresees the flat tire and an airplane that suggests 20th Century aviation. A display concluded with a demonstration even he didn't foresee. A self-contained flying man who cavorts in the air before Washington Monument. Inside the Patient Office, a picture of Leonardo Da Vinci and above that a "jack" foreseeing a flat tire? CU - A full runner of the modern tank. MS - A page on Weapons Development, a steam gun. CU - A drawing by Leonardo of a man hanging from a parachute. MS - Da Vinci's - "Flying Machine". CUS - A Self Contained Flying Man Jet Pack aka rocket man.