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Banu Musa, Engineers of the House of Wisdom

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ScholarEngineers of the House of Wisdom

Banu Musaبنو موسى

Approximate dateBaghdad

Three brothers of Baghdad who wrote the Book of Ingenious Devices.

Muhammad, Ahmad and al-Hasan, sons of Musa ibn Shakir, were raised under al-Mamun's care. They paid for translations of Greek science and wrote on geometry and astronomy. Their Kitab al-Hiyal, around 850, describes about a hundred devices, many driven by water and air pressure.

What grew out of it?

Their automatic valves and controls were early steps toward mechanical engineering.

Who else is linked?

BaghdadAl-MamunAbbasid CaliphateThabit ibn Qurra

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