Engineers and inventors of the ancient Greek and medieval Islamic worlds who designed machines and devices and, in some cases, wrote treatises on how they worked. They include Archimedes of Syracuse, Ctesibius of Alexandria and the Banu Musa brothers, a family of scholars and engineers in ninth century Baghdad. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the person an engineer or inventor of ancient or medieval times.
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Hero of Alexandria (Wikipedia)
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Hero of Alexandria (; Ancient Greek: Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Hērōn hò Alexandreús, also known as Heron of Alexandria ; fl. probably 1st or 2nd century AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in Alexandria during the Roman era.
Philo of Byzantium (Wikipedia)
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Philo of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος, romanized: Phílōn ho Byzántios, c. 280 BC, c. 220 BC), also known as Philo Mechanicus, 'Philo the Engineer' in Latin, was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC.
Archimedes (Wikipedia)
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was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor
Wikipedia: Ctesibius
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was a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt
Banū Mūsā brothers (Wikipedia)
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a Persian family of polymaths, astronomers, mathematicians, and engineers active in 9th century Baghdad
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