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Inventions Browser
Inventions and discoveries from Islamic civilization, each with the people who made it, what came before it, what was built on it, and the sources that say so.
The browser grows one sourced record at a time. Invention records in this build: 22, of which 22 have an article. Makers recorded: 19. Counts are as of the last build.
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Every invention record, in the alphabetical order of its name in this language.
- Al-Idrisi's world map and the Book of Roger (Tabula Rogeriana) Navigation, cartography and geography System
- Al-Jazari's elephant clock Timekeeping Device
- Al-Jazari's peacock hand-washing design Mechanics, automata and clocks Device
- Al-Jazari's waterwheel-driven double-piston pump Mechanics, automata and clocks Device
- Al-Kindi's letter-frequency cryptanalysis Mathematics and computation Method
- Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik's bimaristan Medicine and surgery Institution
- Al-Zahrawi's urethral-stone drill Medicine and surgery Instrument
- Al-Zarqali's universal astrolabe plate Astronomy and its instruments Instrument
- Algebra (al-jabr wal-muqabala as a discipline in al-Khwarizmi's work) Mathematics and computation Method
- Algorism (reckoning with Indian decimal numerals in al-Khwarizmi's book of arithmetic) Mathematics and computation Method
- Establishing papermaking in Baghdad Materials and industry Process
- Harun al-Rashid's Baghdad bimaristan Medicine and surgery Institution
- Hisba and the market inspector Institutions and systems Institution
- Ibn al-Haytham's dark room (the camera obscura experiments) Optics and physics Method
- Ibn Tulun's endowed civilian hospital Medicine and surgery Institution
- Pulmonary circulation Medicine and surgery Discovery
- Rufayda's tent for the wounded Medicine and surgery Institution
- The barid (the state relay post) Institutions and systems System
- The minaret Architecture and building techniques Structure
- The Nizamiyyas: an endowed madrasa network Institutions and systems Institution
- Tiraz (the caliphate's written mark on cloth and papyrus) Materials and industry Institution
- Waqf: the endowment that keeps the principal and gives the yield Institutions and systems Institution
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