Leonardos Brücke / Leonardo’s Bridge

Stations-ID: D066

Instructions:

How can you cross a river with planks that are too short to reach from one bank to the other? Without tools or other aids, you need to build a stable bridge over the water. 

• Build a bridge out of six planks! 
• Extend this bridge by four planks at a time!  
• How big can your bridge be? 
• Can you build a bridge using exactly eight planks? 
• Is it possible to extend the bridge using three planks? 
• Which structural element do all bridges have in common?

In 1483, Leonardo da Vinci wrote to his future patron Ludovico Sforza: “I have plans for very light, strong and easily portable bridges with which to pursue and, on some occasions, flee the enemy, and others, sturdy and indestructible either by fire or in battle, easy and convenient to lift and place in position” 

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