𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗣𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗞

Also known as Charles the Great (747 - 814) , Charlemagne was the founder of the Frankish State and came to be known as the Emperor of Rome having successfully extended his reign over Western Europe for the first time since the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire.

Charlemagne was a contemporary of Abassid Caliph Haroon Al-Rasheed who gifted the Frankish monarch a lavish gift set compromised of an Elephant a marvelous Mechanical Hydrolic Clock in the year 807.

This advanced mechanical device was received by the Franks with great wonder as it's moving mechanical parts made sounds and triggered a sequential spectacle that set various weights and bells that animated twelve horsemen made out of brass that would come out from twelve windows at noon.

The Elephant Clock was a testament to the Muslim world's technological advance and intellectual brilliance. In fact, the many components and attributes within its ingenious design also celebrate the cultural diversity and intellectual reach of its inventor because the clock was compromised of various sciences and principles derived from the ancient Greeks (such as the ancient Clepsydra water clocks), the elephant used to deliver the clock was from India, the clock itself was adorned with an Egyptian phoenix as well as figures from Arabian folklore and Chinese culture (dragons).

This was in many ways the first international clock known to mankind.

𝗜𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝗹-𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗶 The Polymath and Inventor worked at the famous Bayt Al Hikma (House of Wisdom) in Baghdad under the patronage of Haroon Al-Rasheed.Al Jazari is famous for many inventions which he details in his masterful book of mechanics which he entitled 𝘼𝙡-𝙅𝙖𝙢𝙞‘ 𝙗𝙖𝙮𝙣 𝙖𝙡-‘𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝙬𝙖 ‘𝙡-‘𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙡-𝙣𝙖𝙛𝙞‘ 𝙛𝙞 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙖‘𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡-𝙝𝙞𝙮𝙖𝙡 (‘A Compendium on the Theory and Useful Practice of the Mechanical Arts’)