Ismail al-Jazari
Mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164-1206) · Academics · Died at 42
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Something wrong?A 12th-century engineer who catalogued fifty mechanical devices - including water-powered automatons and the elephant clock - in a manuscript that later earned him the label "father of robotics."
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AKM11, A Blood-Measuring Device, folio from a manuscript of The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (Kitab al-hiyal al-nafisa) Cairo 1354
Al-Jazari's candle clock with scribe and pulley system
Elephant clock in Mardin, Turkey
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Ismail al-Jazari was a polymath and mechanical engineer working under the Artuqid Dynasty in Jazira, Mesopotamia. In 1206 he completed The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, a technical manual describing fifty inventions with full construction instructions. Among them was the elephant clock, a water-driven timekeeping automaton that became one of his signature works. The manuscript preserved engineering knowledge that would ripple forward through centuries, eventually casting al-Jazari as an ancestor of modern robotics and mechanical design.
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