Al Jazari was a famous mechanic,who made fifty mechanical machines.He was born in

1136-1206.He was born in Al Jazira.Little is known about Al Jazari and most of the news comes from the introduction to his book on autos.Nothing is known bout Al Jazari's early life.Al Jazari was part of a tradition of artisans and was thus more a practical engineer than an inventor who appears to have been more interested in the craftmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them and his machines were usually assembled by trial and error rather than be theoretical calculation.

Al Jazari

Al Jazari

by Luke and Beau