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.
All Ancient and Medieval Mechanical Engineers
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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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