During the Islamic Golden Age, norias were adopted from classical antiquity by Muslim engineers, For example, the flywheel mechanism used to smooth out the delivery of power from a driving device to a driven machine, was invented by ibn Bassal (fl. 1038–1075) of al-Andalus, who pioneered the use of the flywheel in the noria and saqiyah. In 1206, Ismail al-Jazari introduced the use of the crankshaft in the noria and saqiya, and the concept of minimizing was implied for the purpose of maximising their efficiency.