Most Popular
-
Dive Bars A handcrafted tour of the best, most obscure places to lean on a stool in Houston.
-
Getting Off Attorney Tyler Flood says he wins 80 percent of his clients' DWI trials, even if they were 100 percent drunk as a skunk.
-
Houston's Choice for Mayor Black Guy, Rich White Guy, Lesbian or Hispanic Republican
-
Burgers and Hash Lola, a modern diner in the Heights is dishing up some top-notch Texas short-order cooking.
-
Looking for a Bull Market Killen's Steakhouse in suburban Pearland is probably best during boom times.
Recent Blog Posts
Loni Love And The Chelsea Lately Comics Hit Houston
Fri Nov 6, 5:34 PM
Thanks, Mr. Stalin, For All The Traffic This Weekend
Fri Nov 6, 5:02 PM
Art Rock: Health and Lovvers at Mango's
Sat Nov 7, 2:00 PM
Art Rock: Crank! (Not the Drug) at the Mink
Sat Nov 7, 10:00 AM
This Week In Deliciousness
Fri Nov 6, 5:00 PM
Upcoming Events
Fri Nov 6, 4:30 PM
National Features >
Village Voice
The Great Walls of Chinatown
With the exception of the electric rice cookers, this Bowery tenement could have come straight from the Nineteenth Century.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Miami New Times
Park or Die Tryin'
From the homeless parking mafia to the meter fairy, finding a spot in Miami has taken a turn toward the surreal.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
City Pages
The Baddest Men on the Planet
Straight from the Sam's Club tire shop, Brett Rogers prepares to meet Fedor Emelianenko in mortal combat.
By Bradley Campbell
“Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius”
The painter of the Mona Lisa also had a head for inventing machines
Share
By Julia Ramey
Published on March 19, 2008 at 1:40am
You’d think that painting the freaking Mona Lisa might be enough to fulfill a guy, but not Leonardo da Vinci. He couldn’t get himself to stop inventing things that were not only useful but hundreds of years before their time. The new exhibit “Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius” at the Houston Museum of Natural Science displays his flying machines, robots, underwater breathing equipment and solar-powered devices, all created centuries before electricity, industry and the existence of the United States.
The interactive exhibition, which showcases more than 50 custom wooden machines built according to Leonardo’s blueprints, will not only impress you, it might make you wonder why mankind just didn’t throw up its hands and give up when the great inventor died in 1519. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Through September 1. One Hermann Circle Drive. For information, call 713-639-4629 or visit www.hmns.org. $9 to $15.
March 7-Sept. 1, 2008
Now Click This
