This type of reaping wagons already existed in ancient Roman times and as Leonardo mentioned would be quite destructive : "... against these vehicles, archers, men with slings, stones and guns, all kinds of darts, lances... must be used ... and these will frighten the horses which unbridled will bolt in spite of their drivers..."
Leonardo's drawing shows a wagon pulled by horses with rotating scythes set in motion by an ingenious mechanism. It is connected by means of a shaft to a system of spiked wheels and lantern wheels directly linked to the movement of the wagon's wheels.
Credit : HK Sciences Museum.
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