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Quiz -- who was the inventor of Complex segmental and epicyclic gears ?
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19 Nov '12 07:23 pm
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The first water clocks to employ complex segmental and epicyclic gearing was invented earlier by the Arab engineer Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi in Islamic Iberia .
Answered by LIPSIKA, 19 Nov '12 07:28 pm
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Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi
Source: http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/who-invented-complex-segmental-and-epicyclic-gears/21939841/answers/21939847
Answered by Somebodysomewhere, 19 Nov '12 07:30 pm
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Segmental gears first clearly appear in Al-Jazari, in the West they emerge in Giovanni de Dondis astronomical clock finished in 1364, and only with the great Sienese engineer Francesco di Giorgio (1501) did they enter the general vocabulary of European machine design."
Answered by anil garg, 16 Dec '12 08:16 pm
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