29 January 2007 18:00
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Al-Jazari was the most outstanding Mechanical Engineer of his time. His full name was Badi Al-Zaman AbulI-Ezz Ibn Ismail Ibn Al-Razzaz Al-Jazari and he lived in Diyar-Bakir (in Turkey) during the 6th century AH (12th century CE).
Al Jazari and the History of the Water Clock
Al Jazari and the History of the Water Clock :Al-Jazari’s full name is given at the start of his book[1] He was al-Shaykh Ra’is al-A’mal Badi’ al-Zaman Abu al-‘Izz ibn Isma’il ibn al-Razzaz al
28 January 2007 05:00
CLEPSYDRA : Telling the Time : the story of clocks
Several other methods of telling the time were in common use before the modern clock was invented. The ancient Egyptians, for instance, developed a water clock. This was a neat device which consisted of two cans, placed one on top of the other. At first,
Origins of Science
~1400 BC An intricate clock, measuring flow of water, deposited in the tomb of Amenophis III demonstrates domination of first experimental science by Egyptians. The remains of glass furnaces discovered by Flinders-Petrie at Tel-El-Amarna in Egypt illustra
CTESIBUS : Timeline of Robotics part 1
270 BC Ctesibus ('ti sib ee uhs') Alexandria designs water clock.Water clocks are a big breakthrough for timepieces. Up until then the Greeks used hour glasses that had to be turned over, after all the sand ran through. Ctesibus' invention changes this be
28 January 2007 04:00
CLEPSYDRA : Water clock - Biocrawler
A water clock or clepsydra is a device for measuring time by letting water regularly flow out of a container usually by a tiny aperture. Since the rate of flow of water is very difficult to control precisely, water clocks could never achieve high accuracy
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