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wave power
YouTube – New Invention [wave powered generator] Most ingenious, and very cheap to produce, by the looks. I like that it’s called Pandora’s Box, for reasons which for all I know are unintentional. It’s also an infectiously happy clip. I … more…
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Tagged invention, joy, technology, wave power, YouTube
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Al-Jazari’s Automata
Ibn Ismail ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (1136-1206) inventor and technological visionary author of The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, also known simply as Automata. I’m not about to pretend to wax knowledgable about a person I was only vaguely … more…
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Tagged Al-Jazari, automata, Ayhan Aytes, clockpunk, Dubai, engineeting, invention, Iraq, mechanics, technology, teleology, topology
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