DISCOVERIES & INVENTIONS BY MUSLIMS 4
31. The following English words are borrowed from Arabic: Algebra, Zero, Cotton, Sofa, Rice, Candy, Saffron, Balcony and even Alcohol derives from Arabic: al-kuhl meaning powder.
32. In 875 A.D. Abbas Ibn Firnas, after perfecting a flying machine of silk and eagles feathers, jumped from a mountain and stayed aloft for ten minutes.
33. The system of numbering in use all round the world is probably Indian in origin but the style of the numerals in Arabic, the work of the Muslim mathematicians al-Khwarizmi and Al-Kindi around 825 A.D.
34. Hospitals in Islamic world featured the first drug tests, drug purity regulations, and competency tests for doctors.
35. The windmill was invented in 634 A.D. for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation. It was 500 years before the first windmill was seen in Europe.
36. By the 15th century A.D. Muslims had invented both a rocket and a torpedo.
37. Did you know that Muslims perfected the recipe for soap which we still use today?
38. Muslims physicians set up the earliest dedicated hospitals in the modern sense, known as Bimaristans, which were establishments where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff.
39. The pointed arch so characteristic of Europes Gothic cathedrals was an invention borrowed from Islamic architecture.
40. Islams foremost scientist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, transformed alchemy into chemistry, and invented many of the basic processes and apparatus still in use today.
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