Al-Jazari
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Image:Al-jazari water device.jpg Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari (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.
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References
- Al-Jazarí, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices : Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya, Springer, 1973 [1]
- Donald R. Hill, A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times, 1996 [2]
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