NICOLE KLASS

AL ZAHRAWI

• Created 1,500 page surgery encyclopedia
• Created dissolving stitches made of cat guts
• Preformed the first caesarean surgery and created the first pair of forceps

COFFEE

• Invented in Yemen in the 9th century
• Durning the 16th century coffee really started to spread around the world

FLYING MACHINE (ABBAS IBN FIRNAS)

• He was the first to really try to make a flying machine
• In the 9th century he constructed a flying abject for humans that roughly resembled a bird

UNIVERSITY (FATIMA AL-FIRHI)

• In 859 she founded the first degree-granting university
• It was made in Fez, Morocco
• It is still operating after 1,200 years

ALGEBRA

• Built from Greek and Hindu roots
• Algebra was first called Kitab al-Jabr Wa I-Mugabala which means The Book of Reasoning and Balancing

OPTICS

• Ibn al-Haittham proved that we see objects because light bounces off of them
• He also explained how the eye sees everything upright and not upside down

MUSIC

• Muslims have had a profound impact on European music
• Modern music scales are said to have come from the Arabic alphabet

TOOTHBRUSH

• According to some people prophet Mohammed popularized the toothbrush around 600
• He would brush his teeth with a twig from the Meswak tree

THE CRANK

• The crank up was des covered by Al-Jazari in the 12th century
• It is now used worldwide in bikes all the way to the internal combustion engine

HOSPITALS

• Come from Egypt in the 9th century
• First medical center was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital in Cairo that was founded in 872