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Al-Jazari and the 50 ingenious machines

The engineer Ismail al-Jazari completes "The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices", with instructions for building 50 machines. Among them are a boat with four automatic musicians and an automaton that served water for washing hands. A mechanical servant, eight centuries before household robots.

Source: Wikipedia, Ismail al-Jazari

The elephant clock, a leaf from a copy of al-Jazari's book. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The elephant clock, a leaf from a copy of al-Jazari's book. Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0

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