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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,

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

Inventions by Jews

Levi Strauss: Jeans (1873)
Maurice Levy: Lipstick (1915)
Lazlo Biro: Ballpoint Pen (1938)
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Atomic Bomb (1945)
Edwin Herbert Land: Instant Photography (1947)
Denis Gabor: Holography (1948)
Peter Carl Goldmark: Long Playing Record (1948)
Robert Adler: Television Remote Control (1950)
Edward Teller: Thermonuclear Bomb (1952)
Paul M. Zoll: Defibrillator (1952) Cardiac Pacemaker (1952)
Gregory Pincus: Contraceptives (1950s)
Charles Ginsburg: Videotape (1950s)
Gordon Gould: Laser (1958)
Stanley N. Cohen: Genetic Engineering (1973)
Jason Lanier: Virtual Reality (1989)
Sigmund Freud: Psychological innovations
Edward Land: Polaroid Camera
Abraham Stern: Adding Machine
Charles Adler: Traffic Light
Leo Sternbach: Valium
Emile Berliner: Microphone
Morris Michtom: Teddy Bear
Benno Strauss: Stainless Steel
Abraham Levis: Hot dog bun
Joe Friedman: Flexi-straws
Niels Bohr: Work on the structure of the atom.
Emilio Segre: Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of antiprotons.
James Franck:Laws governing the impact of the electron on the atom.