Islamic technicians built wind powered automata for the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad. In the dawn of the industrial revolution, the construction of automata strongly benefited from extra-continental explorations. With the break of industrial revolution, automation began to be applied to production processes.

The Roots of Automation Before Mechatronics

GUARNIERI, MASSIMO
2010

Abstract

Islamic technicians built wind powered automata for the Abbasid caliphs of Baghdad. In the dawn of the industrial revolution, the construction of automata strongly benefited from extra-continental explorations. With the break of industrial revolution, automation began to be applied to production processes.
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