History of Machine in Islamic and Turkish Civilisation

Machines as mechanisms making easy human life, in their most primitive forms, go back to the ancient ages. It is possible to say that they are older than theoretical knowledge, because one received support from these devices in his struggle with nature. These devices had been developed in hands of Roman engineers after Alexandrian times. We met new machines that have been never appeared previously in Medieval Islam. The book of Ingenious Machines by Al-Jazar？ was a turning point in the history of machine. Other machine works also had been written after Al-Jazar？ like that of Taqi al-D？n. The subject of this text is the process of development of machines in Islamic and Ottoman civilizations