INVENTION: SCRIBE CLOCK

HISTORY

• al-Jazari's water powered scribe clock brought back to life after 800 years.
• This fascinating water powered portable clock stands 1 metre high and half a metre wide.
• The scribe with his pen is synonymous to the hour hand of a modern clock.
• This is yet another example of an ingenious water system by al-Jazari.
• automatic doors as part of one of the water clocks,

CREATOR

• al-Jazari was part of a tradition of craftsmen and was thus more of a practical engineer than an inventor[
• more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology" and his machines.
• describe the improvements to the work, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components
• al-Jazari built automated moving peacocks driven by hydropower.
• He also invented the earliest known automatic gates, which were driven by hydropower.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CLOCK

THE IMPACT TO THE WORLD

THE CHANGE OF THOUGHT PROCESS

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