Elephant clock
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- Date
- 1206 · confidence medium
- Place
- Diyarbakır, Turkey
- Credited to
- Al Jazarí
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Monumental elephant-shaped water clock designed by engineer Al-Jazari at the Artuqid court of Diyarbakır and described in his "Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices".
What it led to
- A key reference for the history of Islamic robotics and automata
- Influence on later water clocks in the Islamic world and Europe
- An early example of a periodic escapement mechanism