Images from an Arabic manuscript with schematics for water powered systems, pulleys & gearing mechanisms,16th c?
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hunh--makes me think of the Alhambra and the story of the exile of the Muslim engineers by the Catholic Kings.
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the Alhambra is the remaining working piece of a water system that supplied the farmlands around Granada.
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no one knows how it works or how to fix it when it will eventually fail like the rest of the system has.
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