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Ismail al-Jazari
Titleal-Jazari
Personal
Born1136 CE
Jazira,Artuqid Dynasty[1]
Died1206 CE
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic Golden Age
Theelephant clockwas one of the most famous inventions of al-Jazari.

Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī(1136–1206,Arabic:بَدِيعُ الزَّمانِ أَبُو العِزِّ بْنُ إسْماعِيلَ بْنِ الرَّزَّازِ الجَزَرِيّ,IPA:[ældʒæzæriː]) was aMuslimpolymath:[2]ascholar,inventor,mechanical engineer,artisanandartistfrom theArtuqid DynastyofJazirainMesopotamia.He is best known for writingThe Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices(Arabic:كتاب في معرفة الحيل الهندسية,romanized:Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya,lit. 'Book in knowledge of engineering tricks', also known asAutomata) in 1206, where he described 50 mechanical devices, along with instructions on how to construct them. One of his more famous inventions is theelephant clock.[3]He has been described as the "father ofrobotics"and modern day engineering.[4]

Biography

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Diagram of a hydropowered perpetual flute fromThe Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devicesby Al-Jazari in 1206.

Al-Jazari was born in the area ofUpper Mesopotamiain 1136. Sources state his exact location is unknown, but they speculate he could have been born inJazirat ibn Umar,where he got the name Jazari from or Al-Jazira which was used to denote Upper Mesopotamia.[5][6][7]The only biographical information known about him is contained in hisBook of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.[8]Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at theArtuklu Palace,the residence of theMardinbranch of theArtuqidswhich ruled acrossUpper Mesopotamiaasvassalsof theZengid dynastyofMosuland later ofAyyubidgeneralSaladin.[9]Little is known about his ethnic background, so he has been variously described asArab,[10][11]: 21 [12][13]Kurdish[14]orPersian.[15]

Al-Jazari was part of a tradition ofartisansand was thus more a practical engineer than an inventor[16]who appears to have been "more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them" and his machines were usually "assembled bytrial and errorrather than by theoretical calculation ".[17]HisBook of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devicesappears to have been quite popular as it appears in a large number of manuscript copies, and as he explains repeatedly, he only describes devices he has built himself. According to Mayr, the book's style resembles that of a modern "do-it-yourself" book.[18]

Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on that of aPseudo-Archimedes.[19]He also cites the influence of theBanū Mūsābrothers for his fountains,al-Saghanifor the design of a candle clock, and Hibatullah ibn al-Husayn (d. 1139) for musical automata. Al-Jazari goes on to describe the improvements he made to the work of his predecessors, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components that are original innovations which do not appear in the works by his precessors.[11]: 21–22 

1206 edition (Ahmet III 3472)

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TheArtuqidrulerNasr al-Din Mahmud(r. 1201–1222) is known to have commisionned the first edition ofAl-Jāmi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-ḥiyalof Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, in April 1206 at the Artuqid court.[20][21]This manuscript is known asAhmet III 3472,now in theTopkapı Sarayı Library.The miniatures are thought to reflect various aspects of the Artuqid court at the time.[20]Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazariwas employed at the Artuqid court during the last quarter of the 12th century, and this is the earliest known manuscript of his opus.[21]

  • Court scene. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]
    Court scene. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]
  • Mechanical Turkic servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]
    Mechanical Turkic servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]
  • Female servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]
    Female servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]
  • Mechanical Turkic servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]
    Mechanical Turkic servant. Amid, modern-day Diyarbakır, Turkey, 1206 (Ms. Ahmet III 3472).[20]

Mechanisms and methods

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The most significant aspect of al-Jazari's machines are themechanisms,components, ideas, methods, and design features which they employ.[9]

Camshaft

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Acamshaft,a shaft to whichcamsare attached, was described in 1206 by al-Jazari, who employed them in hisautomata,[22]water clocks(such as thecandle clock)[23]and water-raising machines.[22]

Crankshaft and crank-slider mechanism

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The eccentrically mounted handle of the rotaryquern-stonein fifth century BCESpainthat spread across theRoman Empireconstitutes acrank.[24]The earliest evidence of a crank andconnecting rodmechanism dates to the 3rd century ADHierapolis sawmillin theRoman Empire.[24]The crank also appears in the mid-9th century in several of the hydraulic devices described by theBanū Mūsābrothers in theirBook of Ingenious Devices.[25]

In 1206, al-Jazari invented an earlycrankshaft,[26][27]which he incorporated with a crank-connecting rod mechanism in his twin-cylinderpump.[28]Like the modern crankshaft, al-Jazari's mechanism consisted of a wheel setting severalcrankpinsinto motion, with the wheel's motion being circular and the pins moving back-and-forth in a straight line.[26]The crankshaft described by al-Jazari[26][27]transforms continuousrotary motioninto a linearreciprocating motion,[28]and is central to modern machinery such as thesteam engine,internal combustion engineandautomatic controls.[27][29]

He used the crankshaft with a connecting rod in two of his water-raising machines: thecrank-driven saqiya chain pumpand thedouble-action reciprocating piston suction pump.[28][30]His water pump also employed the first knowncrank-slidermechanism.[8]

Design and construction methods

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English technology historianDonald Hillwrites:

We see for the first time in al-Jazari's work several concepts important for both design and construction: thelaminationof timber to minimize warping, thestatic balancingof wheels, the use of woodentemplates(a kind of pattern), the use ofpaper modelsto establish designs, thecalibration of orifices,the grinding of the seats and plugs of valves together withemerypowder to obtain a watertight fit, and thecastingof metals in closedmold boxeswithsand.[9]

Escapement mechanism in a rotating wheel

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Al-Jazari invented a method for controlling the speed ofrotationof a wheel using anescapementmechanism.[31]

Mechanical controls

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According toDonald Hill,al-Jazari described several earlymechanical controls,including "a large metal door, acombination lockand a lock with fourbolts".[9]

Conical valve and segmental gear

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A segmental gear is "a piece for receiving or communicatingreciprocating motionfrom or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circulargear,or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face. "[32]Lynn Townsend Whitewrote:[33]

Western scholars had thought that conicalvalvesfirst appeared in Leonardo’s drawings, but al-Jazarl’s pictures show them. Similarly, segmental gears first clearly appear in al-Jazarl; in the West they emerge inGiovanni de’ Dondi’s astronomical clock finished in 1364; with the greatSieneseengineerFrancesco di Giorgio(d. 1501) they entered the general vocabulary of European machine design.

Water-raising machines

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Al-Jazari'shydropoweredsaqiya chain pumpdevice.

Al-Jazari invented five machines for raising water,[1]as well aswatermillsandwater wheelswithcamson theiraxleused to operateautomata,[34]in the 12th and 13th centuries, and described them in 1206. It was in these water-raising machines that he introduced his most important ideas and components.

Saqiya chain pumps

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The first known use of acrankshaftin achain pumpwas in one of al-Jazari'ssaqiyamachines. The concept of minimizingintermittent workingis also first implied in one of al-Jazari'ssaqiyachain pumps, which was for the purpose of maximising the efficiency of the saqiya chain pump. Al-Jazari also constructed a water-raising saqiya chain pump which was run byhydropowerrather thanmanual labour,though the Chinese were also using hydropower for chain pumps prior to him. Saqiya machines like the ones he described have been supplying water inDamascussince the 13th century up until modern times,[35]and were in everyday use throughout the medieval Islamic world.[36] Interestingly, the depiction of the chain in al-Jazari's pump appears to be in the form of aMöbius strip,from long before the Möbius strip was first identified as an object of study in mathematics.[37]

Double-action suction pump with valves and reciprocating piston motion

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Al-Jazari describedsuctionpipes, suctionpump,double-actionpump, and made early uses of valves and acrankshaft-connecting rodmechanism, when he developed atwin-cylinderreciprocatingpistonsuction pump. This pump is driven by a water wheel, which drives, through a system of gears, an oscillating slot-rod to which the rods of two pistons are attached. The pistons work in horizontally opposed cylinders, each provided with valve-operated suction and delivery pipes. The delivery pipes are joined above the centre of the machine to form a single outlet into the irrigation system. This water-raising machine had a direct significance for the development of modern engineering. This pump is remarkable for three reasons:[9][38][39][40]

  • The first known use of a true suction pipe (which sucks fluids into a partialvacuum) in a pump.
  • The first application of the double-acting principle.
  • The conversion ofrotarytoreciprocating motionvia the crank-connecting rod mechanism.

Al-Jazari's suction piston pump could lift 13.6 metres of water,[citation needed]with the help of delivery pipes. It was not, however, any more efficient than thenoriacommonly used by the Muslim world at the time.[41]

Al-Jazari cited the Byzantinesiphonused for dischargingGreek fireas an inspiration for his pump.[42]According toDonald Hill,al-Jazari's pump can be considered "a direct ancestor of thesteam enginecombination ".[43]According toJoseph Needham,al-Jazari's slot-rodforce pumpis one of "the two machines of the Middle Ages which lie most directly in the line of ancestry of the steam-engine and thelocomotive"along withWang Zhen's blowing engine a century later.[44]

Single-bucket and four-bucket water lifting machines

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Al-Jazari described single-bucket and four-bucket water lifting machines. The single-bucket version employsdifferentials,semi-circulargearunits,bucket elevators,andgearboxes,while the four-bucket version adds a mechanicaltimer.

Water supply system

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Al-Jazari developed the earliestwater supply systemto be driven bygearsandhydropower,which was built in 13th centuryDamascusto supply water to its mosques andBimaristanhospitals. The system had water from a lake turn ascoop-wheeland a system of gears which transported jars of water up to awater channelthat led to mosques and hospitals in the city.[45]

Automata

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Al-Jazari built automated moving peacocks driven by hydropower.[46]He also created automatic doors as part of one of his elaboratewater clocks,[9]and inventedwater wheelswithcamson theiraxleused to operate automata.[34]According toEncyclopædia Britannica,theItalian RenaissanceinventorLeonardo da Vincimay have been influenced by the classic automata of al-Jazari.[47]

Mark E. Rosheim summarizes the advances inroboticsmade by Muslim engineers, especially al-Jazari, as follows:

Unlike the Greek designs, these Arab examples reveal an interest, not only in dramatic illusion, but in manipulating the environment for human comfort. Thus, the greatest contribution the Arabs made, besides preserving, disseminating and building on the work of the Greeks, was the concept of practical application. This was the key element that was missing in Greek robotic science.[48]

The Arabs, on the other hand, displayed an interest in creating human-like machines for practical purposes but lacked, like other preindustrial societies, any real impetus to pursue their robotic science.[49]

Drink-serving waitress

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One of al-Jazari'shumanoid automatawas a waitress that could serve water, tea or drinks. The drink was stored in a tank with a reservoir from where the drink drips into a bucket and, after seven minutes, into a cup, after which the waitress appears out of an automatic door serving the drink.[50]

Hand-washing automaton with flush mechanism

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Al-Jazari invented a hand washingautomatonincorporating a flush mechanism now used in modernflush toilets.This device is another example ofhumanoid automata.It consisted of a human figure, made from jointed copper, holding a pitcher resembling a peacock in its right hand. The pitcher is made from brass and holds within it a chamber, divided into two parts by a metal plate. This mechanism aided the pouring of the water from the spout so that it was smooth and would not splutter. The reservoir in which the water is held is situated within the right-hand side of the human figure. An axle is fitted into the right elbow of the human figure so as to allow the liquid to pour from the reservoir through the spout of the pitcher. The left arm of the figure had a fixed weight which would raise and lower the arm which would hold a towel, comb and mirror.

This automaton was designed to aid the king whilst he performed hisritual ablutions.A servant of the king would carry the figure and place it next to a basin that could hold liquid. The servant then turned a knob on the back of the figure which opened a valve resulting in the pouring of water from the right hand of the figure into the basin. When the reservoir is nearly empty and most of the water has been poured a mechanism is prompted and the left hand of the figure, holding the towel, comb and mirror, is extended out in the direction of the king so that he can dry himself and tend to his beard.[51]

Peacock fountain with automated servants

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Water and its usages holds particular importance inIslam;both as being an integral part of the pre-prayer washing processeswuduandghusl,and a key feature in Islamic gardens – four fountains featuring in theParadise Garden;the Islamic final resting place referenced in theQuran.Additionally, withMesopotamiabeing a naturally drought-ridden place, machines relating to water held a significant function; in both a divine and practical sense.

An entire section ofThe Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Deviceswas devoted to fountain mechanisms, titled:‘On the construction in pools of fountains which change their shape, and of machines for the perpetual flute’.[52]

Al-Jazari's "peacock fountain" was a more sophisticated hand washing device featuring humanoid automata as servants which offer soap andtowels.Mark E. Rosheim describes it as follows:[48]

Pulling a plug on the peacock's tail releases water out of the beak; as the dirty water from the basin fills the hollow base a float rises and actuates alinkagewhich makes a servant figure appear from behind a door under the peacock and offer soap. When more water is used, a second float at a higher level trips and causes the appearance of a second servant figure – with a towel!

Al-Jazari's Peacock Fountain

The basin of the "peacock fountain" formed the basin for performingwudu,and it would have been operated by a servant, who would have pulled the plug and positioned the peacock's beak; allowing the mechanism to release the water into the basin in front of the user.[53]

However, whilst water moving objects such as the peacock fountain had ritualistic usage, there is suggestion that water-moving hydraulics were put to profane use. Ayhan Aytes suggests that:[54]

Many of the devices also had additional functions that contradicted divine omnipotence. The most profane purpose of several of his hydraulic and pnuematic automata was to get guests at parties drunk as quickly as possible.

Musical robot band

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Al-Jazari's musicalrobotband.

Al-Jazari's work described fountains and musical automata, in which the flow of water alternated from one large tank to another at hourly or half-hourly intervals. This operation was achieved through his innovative use ofhydraulicswitching.[9]

Al-Jazari created a musical automaton, which was a boat with four automatic musicians that floated on a lake to entertain guests at royal drinking parties. ProfessorNoel Sharkeyhas argued that it is quite likely that it was an earlyprogrammableautomata and has produced a possible reconstruction of the mechanism; it has a programmable drum machine withpegs(cams) that bump into littleleversthat operated the percussion. The drummer could be made to play different rhythms and different drum patterns if the pegs were moved around.[55]

The water-clock of the drummers

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The water-clock of the drummers

The water-clock of the drummers, which differs from the Musical robot band in that it lacks a flute-playingdolland instead has twotrumpeters,consists of seven wood-jointed male figures, including the aforementioned trumpeters as well as two dolls playingcymbalsand the rest playing otherpercussive instruments.[56]The mechanism in this specific automaton serves as aclockby producing a musical output once every hour, illustratingAl-Jazari’s ability to create multi-faceted automata that functioned on a practical and entertainment level. The motion of theautomatonis initiated at daybreak by another male doll, who stands at the edge of thefriezeelement of the design, moving across until he reaches a specific point at which a carvedfalconleans forward dropping a ball from its beak onto a cymbal.[57]All mechanical aspects of the automaton are then driven by water and a series of pistons and cables. Each hour water drains out of the maincisternto cause another bucket to tip over driving awater wheelthat is connected to the musicians. The automaton is described to ‘perform a with a clamorous sound which is heard from afar’ and could play several different tunes.[58]Like many other automatons by Al-Jazari, this was created to entertain guests at the royal palace.

Clocks

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Al-Jazari constructed a variety ofwater clocksandcandle clocks.These included a portable water-poweredscribeclock,which was a meter high and half a meter wide, reconstructed successfully at theScience Museumin 1976[34][59]Al-Jazari also invented monumental water-poweredastronomical clockswhich displayed moving models of the Sun, Moon, and stars.

Candle clocks

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One of al-Jazari'scandle clocks.

According toDonald Hill,al-Jazari constructed the most sophisticatedcandle clocksknown to date. Hill described one of al-Jazari's candle clocks as follows:[9]

The candle, whose rate of burning was known, bore against the underside of the cap, and its wick passed through the hole. Wax collected in the indentation and could be removed periodically so that it did not interfere with steady burning. The bottom of the candle rested in a shallow dish that had a ring on its side connected through pulleys to a counterweight. As the candle burned away, the weight pushed it upward at a constant speed. The automata were operated from the dish at the bottom of the candle. No other candle clocks of this sophistication are known.

Al-Jazari's candle clock also included adialto display the time and, for the first time, employed abayonet fitting,afastening mechanismstill used in modern times.[60]

Elephant clock

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Main article:Elephant clock

Theelephant clockdescribed by al-Jazari in 1206 is notable for several innovations. It was the first clock in which anautomatonreacted after certain intervals of time (in this case, a humanoid robot striking thecymbaland a mechanical robotic bird chirping) and the firstwater clockto accurately record the passage of the temporal hours to match the uneven length of days throughout the year.[61]

Automaticcastle clockof al-Jazari, 14th century copy.

Castle clock

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See also:Clock tower

Al-Jazari's largest astronomical clock was the "castle clock", which was a complex device that was about 11 feet (3.4 m) high, and had multiple functions besides timekeeping. It included a display of thezodiacand thesolarandlunar orbits,and an innovative feature of the device was a pointer in the shape of thecrescent moonwhich travelled across the top of a gateway, moved by a hidden cart, and caused automatic doors to open, each revealing amannequin,every hour.[9][62]

Another feature of the device was fiveautomatamusicians who automatically play music when moved byleversoperated by a hiddencamshaftattached to awater wheel.[23]

Al-Jazari inventedwater clocksthat were driven by both water andweights.These includedgearedclocks and a portable water-poweredscribeclock, which was a meter high and half a meter wide. The scribe with hispenwas synonymous to thehour handof a modern clock.[34][59]Al-Jazari's famous water-powered scribe clock was reconstructed successfully at theScience Museum, Londonin 1976.

Miniature paintings

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Alongside his accomplishments as an inventor and engineer, al-Jazari was also an accomplished artist. InThe Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices,he gave instructions of his inventions and illustrated them usingminiaturepaintings, a medieval style ofIslamic art.

See also

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Notes

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