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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedDa Vinci's 'Fiat' meets Giugiaro's Toyota.(Leonardo da Vinci)(Brief Article)
Automotive News Europe, July, 2005 by Ciferri, Luca
Byline: Luca Ciferri
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An exhibition highlighting Italian car design features a full-scale model of the world's first self-propelled vehicle, a three-wheel wooden carriage sketched by Renaissance painter and scientist Leonardo da Vinci. Dubbed "Leonardo's Fiat" or the "clockwork car," the carriage was just built by Italian scholar Carlo Pedretti and American robotics expert Mark Rosheim from drawings penned by Da Vinci in ...
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