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The Artificio de Juanelo ("Gianello's artifice") was the name of two devices built in Toledo in the 16th century by Juanelo Turriano. They were designed to supply the city with a source of readily available water by lifting it from the Tagus ( Tajo ) river to the Alcázar .
Juanelo Turriano (1500-1585) Italo-Spanish clockmaker, engineer and mathematician, he built the Artificio de Juanelo, an engine that, driven by the river itself, lifted water from the Tagus to a height of almost 100 meters.
El artificio de Juanelo The water fetching automaton. Juanelo Turriano Foundation (in English) Reconstrucción del artificio de Juanelo (PDF format) The new model of the hydraulic machine known as El Artificio de Juanelo in three-dimensional computer simulation
Juanelo Turriano (c. 1500–1585), Spanish clockmaker of the court, Toledo, astronomical clock, restoring the astrarium of Giovanni Dondi. Ulrich Schniepp (?–1588), German clockmaker, Munich, sun dials, clockmaker of the court. Taqi al-Din (1526–1585), Ottoman clockmaker, Istanbul, astronomical clocks, and instruments, alarm clock, pocket ...
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Bust of Juanelo Turriano, attributed to Pompeo Leoni. Building. The hospital was founded by Pedro González de Mendoza, ...
From time to time, he brings the cross to his lips and kisses it. It is believed that the monk was manufactured by Juanelo Turriano, mechanician to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. [51] The first description of a modern cuckoo clock was by the Augsburg nobleman Philipp Hainhofer in 1629. [52] The clock belonged to Prince Elector August von ...
Juanelo Turriano (c. 1500–1585), clockmaker, engineer and mathematician. He built the Artificio de Juanelo. Andrea Viterbi (born 1935), Italian Jewish electrical engineer and businessman; co-founder of Qualcomm and inventor of the Viterbi algorithm