al-Jazari’s Inventions

My explanation of his elephant clock was rough (and wrong in one part), so here’s a better one with animation.

Here is an article with the best pictures of museum reproductions of a few of his works including the party boat.

If medieval automation interests you, I suggest E.R. Truitt’s Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. She cites her many sources well. While it is an academic read, it does not “read” like one.

This is available as an ebook through the library.