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Leonardo da Vinci sketched helicopters because he hated waiting for elevators. Innovation is impatience in a fancy coat.

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Leonardo did sketch a helicopter-like 'aerial screw' around 1480, but it came from his study of flight. Passenger elevators in the modern sense came centuries later.

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