![Liam Cowley, one of the Connecticut Science Center's exhibit specialists,...]()
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Liam Cowley, one of the Connecticut Science Center's exhibit specialists, puts the column lifter to its task.
![Liam Cowley, one of the Center's exhibit specialists, makes adjustments...]()
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Liam Cowley, one of the Center's exhibit specialists, makes adjustments to the hydraulic saw.
![Siblings Jacob DeMayo age 4, left, and Gwen Etcheto age...]()
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Siblings Jacob DeMayo age 4, left, and Gwen Etcheto age 1 both of Waterbury and their godfather Kyle Litke of Naugatuck play in Leonardo's Playhousen in the workshop area of the exhibit.
![Liam Cowley, one of the Center's exhibit specialists, makes adjustments...]()
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Liam Cowley, one of the Center's exhibit specialists, makes adjustments to the hydraulic saw.
![Visitor services specialist Anthony Alampi is on hand to help...]()
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Visitor services specialist Anthony Alampi is on hand to help visitors with the machines. Here, he works a machine that converts back-and-forth motion to revolving motion.
![An ornithopter is on display for the Connecticut Science Center's...]()
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An ornithopter is on display for the Connecticut Science Center's "Machines in Motion" exhibition.
![An early attempt to create a fluing machine by Leonardo...]()
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An early attempt to create a fluing machine by Leonardo da Vinci on display at the Connecticut Science Center.
![In the background is an armored tank, and at right...]()
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In the background is an armored tank, and at right is a version of a cannon on display for the "Machines in Motion" exhibit at the Connecticut Science Center.
![A sketch of a bicycle was found in da Vinci's Madrid...]()
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A sketch of a bicycle was found in da Vinci's Madrid Codex.
![Jacob DeMayo age 4 of Waterbury tries out a press...]()
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Jacob DeMayo age 4 of Waterbury tries out a press that makes olive oil. Visitor services specialist Anthony Alampi, center, and public programs coordinator Megan Dempsey are on hand to help visitors with the machines.
![Carol Weber of Oceanside, N.Y, left, and Cheryl Myers of...]()
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Carol Weber of Oceanside, N.Y, left, and Cheryl Myers of Sellersville, PA try out an centuries-old version of an odometer.
![The Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion exhibit at the...]()
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The Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion exhibit at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford.
![In the workshop area of the exhibit Edrik Lopez of...]()
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In the workshop area of the exhibit Edrik Lopez of Stratford, right, brought his sons Xavi age 3, left, and Eli age 5, center, on their weekly Daddy Buddy Day (on Edrik's day off from being a professor at Fairfield University) to visit the exhibit.
![James Josey of New Britain, a visitors services and facilities...]()
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James Josey of New Britain, a visitors services and facilities staffer, is seen in silhouette through a shaded window in the Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion exhibit as he dusts a glass side wall.
![Two of Leonardo da Vinci's attempts to create flying machines...]()
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Two of Leonardo da Vinci's attempts to create flying machines are on display at the Connecticut Science Center.
A new exhibit at the Connecticut Science Center, imported from the Museo Leonardo da Vinci in Florence, Italy, focuses on Da Vinci’s mechanical explorations.
