Al Jazari

Al-Jazari ( Iraq , circa 1135 -after 1206 ) is an engineer Arabic. His real name is Badi al-Zaman Abu al-Izz ibn Ismail al-Razzaz al-Jazari and is called Al-Jazari due to its origin al-Jazeera in Mesopotamia. He is one of the greatest engineers in the Arab world in the Middle Ages.

Biography

We know very little about him despite his many mechanical innovations. Everything we know about him is in his book knowledge of mechanical (Kitab fi al-ma'rifat hiyal al-handasiyya) 1206 ^{Creation Technology}

According to the report inventions came from the east :

• hydraulic pumps, hydraulic machine automatic system (pump number 3).
• Automatic machines.
• The camshaft.
• The world's first computer, an analog computer.
• The robot (the waitress tea).
• The crank.
• The hydrolic connected to the clock, the clock of the elephant which was shown just Dubai.
• The suction pump double action automatic. This will give after the steam engine in our era.

His work

He wrote an important treatise on mechanics and pendulums, the book of knowledge of mechanical (Kitab fi al-ma'rifat hiyal al-handasiyya) in 1206 , which was commissioned by King Nasser Eddin ibn Mahmud ibn Muhammad Qarra, one of the Sultans of Beni in Biar Irtaka Bakr at the time of the Abbasid Caliph Nasser Dinullah Abu al-Abbas Ahmad, in 1181. This work was completed after twenty-five years of study. This is one of the most important treaties of this era in the Arab world on the subject. There are copies of this book at Topkapi in Istanbul, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Louvre in Paris and the Library in Oxford.

Bibliography

• Al-Jazari, Ibn al-Razzaz, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. Donald R. Hill, trans. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1974.
• El Ghradi Halima Proponents of the scientific spirit in Islamic Civilization , Publications of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - ISESCO, 2003.

See also

The brothers Banu Musa

Notes

• Portal of the Arab-Muslim

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