Sunday, November 14, 2010
INVENTIONS by MUSLIMS
A significant number of inventions were produced by medieval Muslim engineers and inventors, such as
Abbas Ibn Firnas
,
the
Banū Mūsā
,
Taqi al-Din
,
and most notably
al-Jazari
.
Some of the inventions journalist Paul Vallely has stated to have come from the Islamic Golden Age include :
the
camera obscura
,
coffee
,
soap bar
,
tooth paste
,
shampoo
,
distilled
alcohol
,
uric acid
,
nitric acid
,
alembic
,
valve
,
reciprocating
suction
piston
pump
,
mechanized
water-clocks
,
quilting
,
surgical
catgut
,
vertical-axle
windmill
,
inoculation
,
cryptanalysis
,
frequency analysis
,
three-course meal,
stained glass
and
quartz glass
,
Persian carpet
,
and
celestial globe
.
Source : Wikpedia
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