Mechanical Engineering and islam

Mechanical Engineering
About the author

Donald R. Hill, a retired engineer, became interested in Arabic while serving with Britain's Eighth Army in North africa during World War II. After the war, he worked for the Iraq Pertoleum Company, returning to England to join Imperyal Chemical Industries. He later moved to senior positions in the subsidiaries of two U.S. petrochemical corporations, from which he retired in 1984. He now devotes his time to Arabic studies, in which he has earned a master's degree from Durham University and a Ph.D. from the University of London's School of Oriental and African studies. His translation of al-Jazari's book of mechines won for him a share of the 1974 Dexter Prize, awarded by the American Society for the History of Technology.