Baghdad's House of Wisdom: The Inventors History Almost Erased

In 9th-century Baghdad, three brothers — the Banu Musa — wrote the Book of Ingenious Devices: a hundred working machines, from self-pouring fountains to a programmable musical automaton, described in precise engineering language a thousand years before the word "robot" existed. This is the story of the House of Wisdom, the golden age of Islamic science, and how an entire era of genius was nearly erased from the popular history of invention.