Hasan al-Rammah

 ( Syrian Engineers ) 

Hasan al-Rammah (, died 1295) was a Syrians

J. R. Partington (1999). 9780801859540, JHU Press. . ISBN 9780801859540

Arnold Pacey (1991). 9780262660723, MIT Press. . ISBN 9780262660723

Arab

(1995). 9781850439639, I.B.Tauris. . ISBN 9781850439639

chemist and engineer during the Mamluk Sultanate who studied and , and sketched prototype instruments of warfare, including the first torpedo. Al-Rammah called his early torpedo "an egg which moves itself and burns." It was made of two sheet-pans of metal fastened together and filled with naphtha, metal filings, and potassium nitrate. It was intended to move across the surface of the water, propelled by a large rocket and kept on course by a small rudder.

Al-Rammah devised several new types of gunpowder,

a new type of fuse, and two types of lighters.

Categories: Syrian Engineers, 1295 Deaths, Date Of Birth Unknown, Year Of Birth Unknown, 13th-century Engineers, Engineers Of The Medieval Islamic World, Inventors Of The Medieval Islamic World, 13th-century Inventors, Alchemists Of The Medieval Islamic World, 13th-century Arab People

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