Credit Photo: AlWaleed Bin Talal Foundation Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation has been active for 30 years on the field over 83 country around the globe but unfortunately not in Canada. The Foundation supports the initiative to eradicate polio around the world in collaboration with the Bill Gates Foundation. The Alwaleed Foundations consists of three philanthropic [...]

Pusat Sains Negara, the National Science Centre Recognised as the world’s best touring exhibition by the Museum and Heritage Excellence Awards in London last year, the ground-breaking 1001 Inventions show has already received more than three million visitors during record-breaking residencies in London, Istanbul, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC and the Middle East. The [...]

Image of Aljazari taken from Muslim Heritage Youtube video Little is known about Al-Jazari, and most of that comes from the introduction to his Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. He was named after the area in which he was born, al-Jazira—the traditional Arabic name for what was northern Mesopotamia and what is now [...]

  The Elephant Clock was a medieval invention by Master Engineer Al-Jazari (11361206), consisting of a weight powered water clock in the form of an elephant. The various elements of the clock are in the housing on top of the elephant. They were designed to move and make a sound each half hour. A modern [...]

Credit Photo:1001 Inventions Due to popular demand 1001 inventions exhibition, will continue it’s run at the California Science Center Since it launched in London in January 2010 the exhibition has attracted more than 2 million visitors President and CEO of California Science Center Mr Jeffrey N. Rudolph commented: “We are pleased to host 1001 Inventions [...]