Italians are inventive
We know them best for their cuisine and art, but there are more inventions that can be accredited to the Italians than you might think.
Pizza, the violin, the cello and espresso machines are obvious ones, but how about the piano, the typewriter, nitroglycerin, the battery and, so the most popular theories say, spectacles? And of course, Leonardo da Vinci was Italian, and he never let a few little complications like the technological limits of the 1500s stop him from inventing things like tanks and helicopters, at least in theory.