# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hasan-al-rammah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:32:41.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hasan-al-rammah"
name: "Hasan al-Rammah"
slug: "hasan-al-rammah"
description: "Hasan al-Rammah was a Syrian Arab chemist and engineer during the Mamluk Sultanate who studied gunpowders and explosives, and sketched prototype instruments of warfare, including a rocket-propelled surface weapon designed for water. Al-Rammah described this design as \"an egg which moves itself and burns.\" It was made of two sheet-pans of metal fastened together and filled with naphtha, metal filings, and potassium nitrate. It was intended to move across the surface of the water, propelled by a large rocket and kept on course by a small rudder. Despite being frequently cited as the first \"torpedo,\" historians of technology classify the device as a rocket-propelled surface weapon rather than a modern underwater missile, as it was designed to skim across the surface of the water and lacks historical evidence of actual deployment in combat."
tagline: "Syrian chemist and engineer"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1200"
deathDate: "1295"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.941224027811464
  historical:           9.224984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hasan ar-Rammah"
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    title: "حسن الرماح"
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    title: "حەسەن ڕەمماح"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hasan al-Rammah"
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    title: "حسن رماح"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_al-Rammah"
    title: "Hasan al-Rammah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_al-Rammah"
    title: "Hasan al-Rammah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%A7ane_Arrama"
    title: "Haçane Arrama"
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  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "அசன் அல்-ராம்மா"
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    title: "حسن الرماح"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump