Leonardo's Bridge Has No Nails. Weight Holds It Together.
Short0:31Education4.1× channel median
Published Oct 11, 2026, 9:00 PM · 2d ago
Oddly Told
5.5K subscribers · median 7K views
Animation · confirmed$Likely
Views
28,692
+8 views/hour
Likes
963
3.4% of views
Comments
19
0.07% of views
Checked every 3 h while the video is this age · last check 2h ago · next in 42 min. YouTube itself updates public counts with a short delay.
Views / hour now
8
measured 2h ago
Peak views / hour
19
8h ago
Avg views / day
10K
since upload
First 24 hours
—
not tracked from upload
vs channel median
4.1×
Rank in channel
#10
of 23 tracked
Engagement
3.4%
likes + comments / views
Est. ad revenue
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Shorts pay from a shared pool
Views over time
3 readings · line: total views · bars: views gained per hour
Description
No nails, no rope, no glue. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a bridge of identical wooden beams woven over and under each other: the weight presses them together and friction locks them in place. Soldiers could build it in minutes, and pulling out one beam brings it all down.
#engineering #davinci #shorts
Tags
Leonardo da Vinciself-supporting bridgeda Vinci bridgeno nails bridgeengineeringphysicsfrictionSTEMRenaissanceanimatedOddly Told
Details
- Published
- Oct 11, 2026, 9:00 PM
- Length
- 0:31 (31 s)
- Format
- Short (3 min or less)
- Category
- Education
- Audio language
- EN
- Quality
- HD
- Captions
- No
- Made for kids
- No
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Video ID
- E3_79CBTsdU
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