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1. Introduction<br />

One of the first efforts to design anunderwater vehicle is due toLeonardo<br />

Da Vinci. It has been found inthe Codice Atlantico (Codex Atlanticus),<br />

written between 1480 and 1518,together with the development of somediver’s<br />

devices (see Figure 1.1 and 1.2 where the corresponding page of the Codex is<br />

reported). Legends say that Leonardo worked onthe idea ofanunderwater<br />

military machine and that hefurther destroyed byhimself the results judged<br />

too dangerous.<br />

Fig. 1.1. Page of the Codice Atlantico (around 1500) containing the draw ofthe<br />

manned underwater vehicle developed by Leonardo Da Vinci<br />

G. <strong>Antonelli</strong>: <strong>Underwater</strong> <strong>Robots</strong>, 2nd Edition, STAR 2, pp. 1–13, 2006.<br />

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006

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