EggMill

This is from a painting by a man called Peter Breughel. He painted the picture around the year 1565

(Click here for painting)

The painting shows a boy with a 'nutmill’ or “eggmill” and a girl with a spinning top.

It was the Japanese that created a flying toy called the Taketombo. Was it inspired by Da Vinci’s girocopter?

The nutmill is probably based on a drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci of a device he called a 'Gyro copter"

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