Al-Jazari

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Diagram from a book by Al-Jazari.

Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari, turkish Eb-Ul-Iz (1206 AD) was one of history's greatest engineers. He invented the crankshaft and some of the first mechanical clocks, driven by water and weights. Among his 50 other inventions was the combination lock.

He was called Al-Jazari after the area where he was born, Al-Jazira, which is the traditional Arabic name for northern Mesopotamia (in modern-day Syria and Iraq, between the Tigris and the Euphrates).

Served the Ortukids in Diyarbakir.

He is called as the first turkish Cybernetician.

References

• Al-Jazarí, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices : Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya, Springer, 1973 [link]
• Donald R. Hill, A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times, 1996 [link]

External links

• [The Automata of Al-Jazari]
• ["Al-Jazari, the Mechanical Genius" at MuslimHeritage.com]
• ["The Machines of Al-Jazari and Taqi Al-Din" at MuslimHeritage.com]
• ["How Islamic inventors changed the world" article in The Independent]
• [ADVANCES IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES: FROM ABACUS TO HOLONIC AGENTS From:Tuncer Ören, Professor Emeritus School of Information Technologies]

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