Muslim Inventions
Published on Mar 18, 2016
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SURGERY
- Discovered that cat guts can stitch wounds
- Published a paper about surgery
- Created the first pair of forceps
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COFFEE
- The main source of coffee is from Yemen
- Coffee helped people stay up at night to do their devotions
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FLYING MACHINE
- Abbas Ibn Firnas, in the 9th century build a model of a flying machine that had wings.
- In one of his attempts, he flew up for a couple of moments and fell back to the ground.
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UNIVERSITY
- Fatima al-Firhi found the first university
- Her sister found a mosque near by and it's still going
- Now called the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University
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ALGEBRA
- The word algebra comes from a famous treatise and it translates to "The book of reasoning and balancing"
- The same mathematician came up with raising a number to a power.
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OPTICS
- Al-Haitham discovered that light reflecting off objects and going into the eye help humans see different objects.
MUSIC
- The lute and the rahab came from the Middle East and moved to Europe.
- Some musical scales are originally from the Arabic alphabet.
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TOOTHBRUSH
- Prophet Mohammed used his first toothbrush in 600 using a twig from the meswak tree.
- There a substances like meswak that are used in toothpaste.
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THE CRANK
- The crank can lift heavy things
- That technology spread across the globe, first the bicycle then to the engine
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HOSPITALS
- First medical center found in 872 in Cairo, Egypt.
- Gave free care to anyone and took care of people who were sick.
