Al-Jazari - 300 years before Da Vinci
2 Comments Published by slimboyfatboyslim on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 at 10:50 PM.
currently studying his works and here's some info about him,
"Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari (Arabic: بديع الزمان ابو العز بن إسماعيل بن الرزاز الجزاري)I (1206 AD) was an important Arab Islamic mechanical engineer and scholar of the middle ages. Al-Jazari described fifty mechanical devices in six different categories, including water clocks (one of his famous clocks were reconstructed successfully at the London Science Museum in 1976), combination locks, hand washing device, machines for raising water, double acting pumps with suction pipes and the use of a crank shaft in a machine, accurate calibration of orifices, lamination of timber to reduce warping, static balancing of wheels, use of paper models to establish a design, casting of metals in closed mould boxes with green sand, and more. He is also credited for the first recorded designs of a programmable humanoid robot. [1]"
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"Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari (Arabic: بديع الزمان ابو العز بن إسماعيل بن الرزاز الجزاري)I (1206 AD) was an important Arab Islamic mechanical engineer and scholar of the middle ages. Al-Jazari described fifty mechanical devices in six different categories, including water clocks (one of his famous clocks were reconstructed successfully at the London Science Museum in 1976), combination locks, hand washing device, machines for raising water, double acting pumps with suction pipes and the use of a crank shaft in a machine, accurate calibration of orifices, lamination of timber to reduce warping, static balancing of wheels, use of paper models to establish a design, casting of metals in closed mould boxes with green sand, and more. He is also credited for the first recorded designs of a programmable humanoid robot. [1]"
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